wsbailey wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 1:42 pm https://www.featherbase.info/en/home

That works. Thanks

Got this when I tried the link today.

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I have quite a few books on soft hackles but, by far, the very best is "The North Country Fly: Yorkshire's Soft Hackle Tradition by Robert L. Smith (2015-02-06)" - - - (https://www.amazon.com/North-Country-Fl ... B01K3MIX8U)

Bob

DUBBN wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 2:19 pm That is a gorgeous skin!!!!

Thanks, actually, I should have two of them akthough the first dye attempt turned out somewhat lighter but still purdy!

Several years back, Phil Anderson contacted me that Dave Roberts was dting some partriddge skins, including a Golden Olive color. Turned out to be a very lovely color hackle and makes nicely colored additions to various hare's ear / lighter fur dubbing.

Rick Thanks for the nice comments which I'll forward to our Chapter President. Regarding the Grumpy articles, the author (Kurt Haberl) is one of my fishing buddies and for WAY TOO MANY YEARS, many of the Grumpy articles were based (partially) on the real life camping / fishing adveentures of Kurt, m...

My memory isn't perfect, so I might have posted something in the past about the book called "ORANGE OTTER" written by Christopher Knowles. The book details the life, fishing and fly tying of Rev. Edward Powell of Munslow, Shropshire. I believe that the Reverend caught so many trout that h...

My memory isn't perfect, so I might have posted something in the past about the book called "ORANGE OTTER" written by Christopher Knowles. The book details the life, fishing and fly tying of Rev. Edward Powell of Munslow, Shropshire. I believe that the Reverend caught so many trout that he...

novabass wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:06 am Looks interesting!
I would like to see more of your flies.

Do a search for "Lee Wulff Trout Unlimited", the name of our local TU Chapter. If you click on any of the available Newsletters, there should be one of my write ups in every Newsletter for the last 10 + years.

Bob

For 10 to 15 years, during the off season months, I've done a small write-up on flies that I tie for our local TU Chapter's monthly newsletter, Several months ago, a couple of my TU Chapter colleagues took my computer files and put togehter a hard cover book of these articles, probably 100 + article...