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Greenwell's Glory
« on: July 03, 2009, 02:01:17 PM »
A wingless wet fly version ... tied but 8 or 10 of these this morning, here are two.  Let me know what you all think, and Happy Forth of July!

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2009, 07:25:46 PM »
Those are nice Justin.

Do you fish wets a lot?

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2009, 07:28:54 PM »
I'm trying to learn more about doing it.  Since joining TPO I've become a lot more proficient with nymphs so I'm trying to explore the "wet ways" and see where it leads me.

Thanks for looking.

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2009, 11:07:10 PM »
Coming along nicely.  This is a great fly for fishing. What are you using for hackle?  The correct feather makes this fly what it is.  It is often difficult to find.

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2009, 11:41:07 PM »
Mark:

Tell me what I SHOULD be using!  I used some hackle I had here.  I'm totally new to this so any help would be great.

JI
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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2009, 09:38:14 PM »
There are a multitude of variations on that pattern.

I would use hen hackle in light brown (mottled) or furnace.

soft, webby, sparse!!!

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2009, 03:51:21 PM »
NP,
The correct is Greenwell's Hen, but as I said, it's difficult to locate.  Furnace will work as will Whiting Brahma Hen dyed a dark ginger. Real Greenwell's is the best, of course.

I also tie a Greenwell's Flymph

http://libstudio.com/FS&S/html/greenwell_s_flymph.html

Mark

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2009, 11:50:41 AM »
For a step by step for greenwells spider

http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=sbs&thread=419

the wet
http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sbs&action=display&thread=1873

and also a step by step to a low riding dry variation from a friend of mine which I can vouch for as being superb...

http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sbs&action=display&thread=1864


A list of some other great SBS available on this site

http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sbs&action=display&thread=381

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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2009, 12:24:49 PM »
Thanks for those ... they are great!

JI
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Re: Greenwell's Glory
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2009, 11:25:35 PM »

This fly is one of my all time favorite wet fly patterns. There was a time in the UK that every fly fisher would have known of this fly. Not so today.
It can be as good as a dry, soft hackle and a nymph.

Interesting thing also is that the color of the hackle used is related to this fly, same as the coch y bonddu, which l might add is also high on my list as a Brown trout killer.

The only difference between the two hackles is Greenwell is more a ginger black combination  and the CYB a dark red game.

Davy

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