tied by Bryan Laing, USA
and Rene Zillmann, Germany
| The Rear | |
| Hook | |
| Thread | |
| The Front | |
| Thread | Black |
| Legs | Rubber legs |
| Body | Olive dubbing |
| Hackle | Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Wing | Elk hair, bleached white |
The fly has a story. First of all I have to admit that the fly has 3 fathers: Bryan, myself and Martin Westbeek - even when Mart will not remember.
I met him during the swap and talked with him about the concept of this swap. I said that he would tie a combination of two well known pattern and suggested a 'Egg Sucking Adams' as combination of an Adams and a egg sucking leech.
Later, when the butts arrived I played some time around how to complete them At this moment they didn'd had the rubber legs. I was thinging about a white hackle and do some of a traditional streamer. But Mart's idea poped up again. And Bryan left some space on his fly - enough space to tie a full pattern. And suddenly I had the idea: Tie two worlds - one terrestrial insect ( a hopper), one aquatic insect ( a caddis), one made from modern material (the hopper, mainly from synthetics) and the caddis( made from traditional materials). And I was sur they had to fall in love. therefore I tied them oppsite direction - kissing each other. Probably new and old world.