To Keith first: I appreciate your comments above; no clue as to where the 'above post' was coming from, go going to ... And I'd rather not.

"OM" I think you may be very close to the origination of this Rogue pattern. I've seen the parallel drawn before, suspect the ***** Creek Nymph may have been the orig. starting point for the Otis Bug.

Vis a vis the white legs idea this patten done in straight blach Chen. with white rubber legs has been quite successful with Fall run Kings on the Rogue. At least for me anyway.

Interesting to be fishing for '3# summer runs, and hook 30# kings on a 7wt spey rod. Most of the action was had the spey rod flat to the water and Mr. King To You in close to total command of the situation.

"A good thing" and a lot of fun to see how it would turn out in the end. A beach release, or a "long range release." Some of both.
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