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Old 04-10-2009, 04:34 PM
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Can anyone identify the flt pictured below please.It looks a bit like a cruncher to me but with a lead head?
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Old 04-10-2009, 04:56 PM
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Not like any cruncher that I've seen I'm afraid!

More like a variation on a Montana theme with a bead head and certainly not recognisable as a standard pattern.
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Old 05-10-2009, 09:21 AM
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i dont think this is a recognised fly, more like a bespoke rainbow gold head nymph.

The tail, legs behind the bead and a thorax/wing case of sorts puts it firmly in the imitative nymph area. The rainbow body makes it stand out a little from the olive/brown/black of normal nymph patterns
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Looks to me like a variation of the copper john
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its a rainbow arsed brown backed greenbottle
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Old 06-10-2009, 06:44 AM
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Not like any cruncher that I've seen I'm afraid!

More like a variation on a Montana theme with a bead head and certainly not recognisable as a standard pattern.
Ye i think yer right lighthouse. some kind of montana nymph
Have u caught anything on it?

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Old 06-10-2009, 07:04 AM
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looks sort of a cross between a montana and a bibio
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Old 06-10-2009, 07:05 AM
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Ye i think yer right lighthouse. some kind of montana nymph
Have u caught anything on it?

Ali

Thanks for the replies
yes it does look a bit like a Montanna
I haven't caught on it yet but was recommended to buy it as having caught that day at Treemeadow (in August)
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