Unique flies

[Malcolm]

Looking at the various posts on variant flies prompted the thought that it's very very difficult to come up with a unique style. Have any of you managed it? I'm not talking of putting a magenta body hackle on a black pennel or anything as straightforward as that, I mean something like the first suspender buzzer or the compara dun, say.

I thought I had once when I put a polystyrene ball on a one inch piece of nylon and tied it to the head of a buzzer so that the buzzer would float an inch under the surface. It works, sometimes very well but even that wasn't unique.

So any claimers?

Malcolm

[Highlander]

I can't think of anything I have & I'll bet there are not too many that have. Still be nice to hear if there are.
Tight Lines

[haresear]

Not exactly a style, more of a hairstyle

I once came up with something I called a "sedgehog" (I know there is another one). Mine was a freeform mass of deer hair which I plastered in Mucilin and moulded to various shapes (like Brylcreem). You could make this fat, thin and somewhere in between.

I still do this (Brylcreeming) with shaggy palmers.

Alex

[deergravy]

Recent FF&FTs have featured patterns by an Italian guy, Agostino Roncallo, which are constructed entirely of one or two CDC feathers.
I don't see them starting a revolution or anything, but they're very clever, elegant flies and as innovative as anything I've seen lately.
I'm going to tie a few up and give them a go, they look like fun.

Dave

[Allan Crawford]

I read that article and the flies looked excellent, I'll like to try some.

Allan