Renegade- What for?

[jskowron]

I just tied up some renegades, for no other reason than I had never tied them before. Are they just an attractor, or are they meant to imitate something, like a midge cluster, cripple, or emerging something or other?

(For some reason, I original type "bivisible" instead of "renegade", thus flyfishgb's post below. I have no idea why I did this- I was thinking "renegade" but somehow typed "bivisible" I should probably consult with a psychologist to see what's wrong with me)

[flyfishgb]

An excerpt from some of Edward Hewitt's writing about the Bivisible a fly which he introduced,

He is explaining about a few flies that are good all over America ...

"the Brown Bivisible with the white wisp at its head, which I myself introduced, although palmer flies somewhat similar had been in use for many years in England. The white wisp enables the angler too see the fly readily, hence the name I gave it---Bivisible because I can see it and the Trout can see it. This fly in various sizes is certainly the most universally useful fly we have, and is perhaps more fished now than any other dry fly. The true Bivisible is brown, wit a white wisp of feather at its head."

[Mark Patenaude]

The Renegade in larger sizes is deemed an attractor and in small sizes a midge cluster imitation.

It doesn't see alot of action East of the Mississippi but is used pretty heavily out West.

Mark