Had to substitute for everything except the copper wire
I was struggling on the body dubbing (no ginger SLF), so I hand blended a ton of stuff I had in the kit. It’s a mostly a blend of apricot egg yarn, cream antron, tan rabbit, and a little misc cream, firey brown, hot orange, and red. I’ll probably never be able to replicate it…but I got 8 flies out of that mix. Hen pheasant instead of mottled hen. Instead of cream cdc, used 1 natural and 1 white. Natural deer hair for the thin wing, and the head is just crinkled deer hair in a dubbing loop then trimmed up (twist and bend after you cut off then crush into a little ball in the palm of your hand).
I'm a little worried it might be too bouyant and not play the emerger role very well.
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