Above photo: The Marinaro thorax style dun changed the way  I think about traditional hackle collars over thirty years ago after reading Marinaro's book In the Ring of the Rise in 1994. As seen above, I often tie it using a quill body with CDL tail fibers and hen-tip wings. (click on any photo for magnification) Above photo: One of the geniuses of the American dry fly, Vincent C. Marinaro. If someone were to ask me who my favorite fly fisher from the past was, Vincent Marinaro would be my first and only answer. He is undoubtedly the most observant, creative, and inventive fly fisher ever. He was an avid bamboo fly rod fisherman and understood the wide range of feedback and precise control a bamboo rod was capable of providing. In his mind, it was the ultimate delivery system to cast a fly. I would have to say his inventiveness as a fly tyer won him a one-way seat on the Hogwarts Express. In 1979, Mr. Marinaro's book In The Ring Of The Rise made its first appearance and was p...