Welcome to a new series profiling some simple and effective kebari patterns. I don't know the provenance of most of these flies or if they have any particular name. Most I just sat down and tied one day when I had a particular need, and if they caught me fish I kept on tying them. While I was making them I did think though about the materials used and how the design might lend certain properties to the finished kebari, and I thought too about the ways they would be fished. I don't formulate patterns to imitate any particular bug, but I think instead about how best to present a target to the fish that will trigger a take. This for me is the true essence of tenkara. Readers interested in further discussion on this topic may enjoy my earlier post here . My good friend Karel Lansky over at tenkara on the fly puts it most succinctly when he says 'presentation over imitation.' So first up, the black rooster and peacock herl st...