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Gutcutter	February 15th, 2017, 6:29 am
Pennsylvania Posts: 470	Anybody have any abdomen dubbing/ribbing suggestions to imitate this?
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PaulRoberts	February 16th, 2017, 10:38 am
Colorado Posts: 1776	Really? Spinners?
Gutcutter	February 16th, 2017, 6:39 pm
Pennsylvania Posts: 470	Hi, Paul. I have a few nice patterns for the much thinner and darker spinner. But I'm interested in abdominal color suggestions for the plump duns. All I've come up with, so far is something like this: Thanks in advance. Tony
	All men who fish may in turn be divided into two parts: those who fish for trout and those who don't. Trout fishermen are a race apart: they are a dedicated crew- indolent, improvident, and quietly mad. -Robert Traver, Trout Madness
PaulRoberts	February 17th, 2017, 6:22 am
Colorado Posts: 1776	Hi Tony, I've not tied them, although I've collected them; Just not in trout water. Are you seeing duns on the water? They supposedly emerge after crawling out, but then that was supposed to be the case for Isonychia too. What you have there looks pretty good. I found a photo I have of a female dun -taken immediately after it emerged ditch-side. It was very fresh so it was pale -with much pale yellow-olive in it. The image is very poor but I'll post it anyway. I think I have others that may be better. EDIT: I know why it's SO poor -it's a point-n-shoot copy from a 35mm slide. Anyway, maybe you get the gist -they will likely be paler at immediate emergence.
Taxon	February 17th, 2017, 2:31 pm
Site Editor Royse City, TX Posts: 1350	Hi Paul- Could certainly be wrong, but that sure looks like a female imago to me. :-)
	Best regards, Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
PaulRoberts	February 17th, 2017, 5:26 pm
Colorado Posts: 1776	Roger, you could be right. It was quite a while back and now looking at the background, it may have been in my RiverTank. I do have photos (35mm) from a little ditch in a hayfield that was a good 1-1/2mi. from the nearest stream. Pretty sure that is where the above one came from, although I don't remember particulars. I likely have notes somewhere though.
Jmd123	February 19th, 2017, 3:47 pm
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611	Nice looking flies there, Tony. Won't it be lovely when we can all start floating dry flies again? Might be sooner than later around here, we have an unseasonable warm spell and our waters are thawing out rapidly... Jonathon
	No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...

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