The Third Yarn Thief
How to tie the fly pattern that I "invented" in connection with a discussion about coming up with new fly patterns.
The history of this fly is covered in depth in the article How to invent a fly pattern. But since a few asked me for an SBS while this was going on back in December 2022, I thought I'd bring you the fly pattern here.
It's a fairly simple fly, but thanks to its colors and the ribbed segments it appears nice and pretty fancy.
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