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- Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Edmonds & Lee
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5980
Re: Edmonds & Lee
Outside of the color descriptions in his printed patterns, Ronalds is unreliable as to color. The plates in the book were hand colored and through it's many editions from 1836 - 1913 the colors changed a fair amount. It is said that Ronalds himself colored the first 4 editions of the book. I have th...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Edmonds & Lee
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5980
Re: Edmonds & Lee
Actually, the link is to Alfred Ronald's book, "The Fly Fisher's Entomology" and not W.H. Aldam's "Quaint Treatise." Aldam wanted to chronicle the fly patterns found in an 18th century manuscript and provide actual specimens of both the flies and materials to dress them. His book...
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Edmonds & Lee
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5980
Re: Edmonds & Lee
Apparently Walbran purchased some of Aldam’s estate including silk thread. In my copy of Aldam's Quaint Treatise the specimens of silk are quite different from Pearsalls, not only in color but in diameter. One silk is especially intriguing. The "Tailey Tail" fly calls for a dark fawn or f...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: G E M Skues posting on Flymph Forum.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7463
Re: G E M Skues posting on Flymph Forum.
I have that one. It contains a Skues style nymph tied by Johnson.
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 9:39 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: North Country spider article
- Replies: 122
- Views: 36478
Re: North Country spider article
Now I know the true orgins of the "Friday night fish fries" that I so enjoy. After the potato was introduced to Europe circa 1570 - 1590, the inhabitants of the monasteries were divided into two groups depending upon their kitchen duties; Fish Friars and Chip Monks! Those with unusually f...
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:39 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: North Country spider article
- Replies: 122
- Views: 36478
Re: North Country spider article
N01555_10.jpg Proof that Medieval Monks used standard angling techniques is shown here in the famous and delightful painting "Thursday" by British artist Walter Dendy Sadler. As can be clearly seen, the Brothers are fishing for tomorrow's fast-day dinner using tackle quite similar to that...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:53 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
- Replies: 12
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Re: Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
Edgar Sealey and Partridge made most of Veniard's hooks I have been told. They came in folded paper packages in larger quantities and in elegant little rice paper envelopes when you bought 25. I still have many of them left and the crinkly feel of the paper is a pleasant memory from my early fly tyi...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4834
Re: Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
John - Would you have any idea what hook the top fly is tyed on? I am guessing the middle fly is tyed on a Model Perfect bend hook, and the bottom fly is a sneck bend hook. Do you agree? Would it also be possible to get a measurement of the size of each fly (millimeters)? What a treasure! Ray, The ...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4834
Vincent Marinaro Wet Flies
DSC01099.JPG I thought some of you might like to see some very rare spider flies dressed by Vince Marinaro. All Marinaro flies are quite scarce but wet his wet flies are almost unknown. Of course Marinaro, the author of A Modern Dry Fly Code and In the Ring of the Rise will forever be associated wi...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:02 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Grayling Witch
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1955
Re: Grayling Witch
The Grayling Witch is just a version of the venerable Red Tag, a fly that I used a lot when I was a kid. It was easy to tie and the materials were not hard to get and the trout liked it. I dressed it with both a brown and a grizzly hackle; both were very effective on my local trout. In T.E. Pritt's ...