{"id":3414,"date":"2016-10-18T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:54:26","slug":"green-highlander-x-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2016\/10\/green-highlander-x-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Highlander x 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016-10-18-gh\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Highlander is one of those patterns that I keep tying, it’s the one that caught my attention when I started out, and I have tied it in different versions the last couple of years (mostly hairwings\/polarbear). This winter I have a project to tie up a box of\u00a0classics for fishing and started gathering material this autumn when the season was over. The final piece that landed in my mailbox was florican and swan, so I set out to tie up 10 GH to get a feel for\u00a0the pattern.<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_wing1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I tied up 3 first, then sat down to do the 7 other in stages; learning a pattern for me means breaking it down into sections: tail & butt, then body with hackle & throat and finally the wing. This way I can focus on one part at the time and repeat it within short timespan to become familiar with that part of the fly.<\/p>\n

Here I have completed the body and started laying out the parts to start marrying the wing.<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_wing3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Married wing done, then the sides:<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_wing4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and finally setting the wing, sides, topping and horns:<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With this process I also wanted to try out how different tails made for slightly different expressions (short tail vs. long tail) and how floss body vs. dubbed front-part worked out in the final fly. This is a good exercise if you want to get familiar with a pattern and how it turns out with small differences.<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_all\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This set was\u00a0tied on Mustad 80500 #1\/0, so\u00a0the next part will be to tie up on\u00a0#2\/0 and #1 to vary in size when the season starts up again.<\/p>\n

\"2016-10-18-gh_hand\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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