Colourful Kate's

[maharg]

Colourful Kate’s
Following on from my colourful crunchers I thought I would pimp my favourite fly, the Kate McLaren.

Using a hot orange hen badger this one is not a huge leap from the original.


Next I tried a blue grizzle hen and is turned out a bit Irish bumbleyish.


Next I thought about adding a little fire to the tail so the red dyed GP crest. W.O.I
cree for the body and orange hen badger for the head hackle.


Then I tried mixing some red and black seals fur for the body and a pink badger hen for the head hackle.


Moving on I tried chartreuse badger for the body and olive grizzle for the head.


Madder by the minute, red GP crest tail, W.O.I cree for the body and chartreuse badger for the head.


Hope you enjoy them.
ATB
Graham

[weight_forward]

No.3 is a stunner, I'm copying that for certain. I like the last one a lot as well. You can keep your pink one though

[Scratch]

Nice set Graham Top one for me, probably because it's the least removed from the original. Difficult to improve on perfection. Nice butt... if you don't mind me saying so.

[Eddie O'Neill]

Great flies, I particularly like number 3

[budgie]

The last one gets my vote. I would use this as a substitute for a Gosling fished on rippled water during the mayfly season on southern stillwaters.

[savage take]

no. 1 for me Graham.

[andypandy]

Im liking these alot...

Great variations

Andy

[shpeil]

Nice.

What is WOI? I keep seeing that and am not sure what it is.

Neil

[maharg]

Originally Posted by shpeil

Nice.

What is WOI? I keep seeing that and am not sure what it is.

Neil

West of Ireland a dark olivey, orangy colour

---------- Post added at 07:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:33 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Scratch

Nice butt... if you don't mind me saying so.

Better not let wee jimmy see you like a bit of butt#

Thanks for all the comments guys, and thanks again to weight forward for the capes