The search for the ultimate skwala pattern

My fly tying friends are at their vices already. They're tying skwalas - old favorites and some inevitable new ones. They can't help themselves.

And they can't help but add too much of this, and a dab of that to their flies.

Every flytier in western Montana where the early season skwala stonefly hatch occurs probably has at least one favorite skwala dry fly pattern, a fugitive from the accumulation of wild overdressed experiments gone wrong. Taken together, that scrap heap of abandoned flies would probably fill a room. But hey - we all had fun contributing to it. The skwala hatch will be here...

 

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