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- Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Washing bird skins
- Replies: 5
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Washing bird skins
I have an entire female Gambles quail skin that needs some attention. It's a little greasy and some of the feathers are "matted" and don't flair evenly when wrapped around a hook. The marginal coverts, both upper and lower have some hard crusty gunk left over from skinning and drying. Poin...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:17 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Katydid
- Replies: 2
- Views: 999
Re: Katydid
Norm, your Bergman patterns are amazing.
I knew a guy from Jersey named Andy Brasko who was also a Bergman fan and tied at several events
that I attended. You guys are masters and make it look WAY too easy.
Well done!
Rick
I knew a guy from Jersey named Andy Brasko who was also a Bergman fan and tied at several events
that I attended. You guys are masters and make it look WAY too easy.
Well done!
Rick
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 7:32 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Stillaguamish Sunrise and Sunset
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1121
Re: Stillaguamish Sunrise and Sunset
Nice! The Skykomish Sunrise was probably the first steelie fly I learned to tie.
Simple and deadly. Well done.
Simple and deadly. Well done.
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Eye candy and more
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18639
Re: Eye candy and more
It is. J Stockard describes Nano Silk as a standard GSP and it's the only GSP that is slightly twisted and can
be split for a dubbing loop. It will cut your finger to the bone if you try to snap off a tag end by hand.
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:42 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Condor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1497
Re: Condor
I still have a small section of Condor quill. I’ll never use it now.. Back in February of 2019 a group of Flymphers gathered at a row of tables at Fly Fest in livingston Manor. Therow was tying with condor on some of his vintage hooks and he gave me a small section of quill and a fly or two. Bill S...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Rhyacophila
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3257
Re: Rhyacophila
What is this 'vacuuming out your truck' event that you speak of? It has the faint wisp of heresy to it. That was after he used a snow shovel to clear all the fast food wrappers off the floor of the truck. I would be checking that vacuum bag before disposal as I'm sure there would be at least a doze...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Esmaralda
- Replies: 1
- Views: 380
Re: Esmaralda
Norm, I'm lovin' that Bergman binge you're on!
Please continue...
Please continue...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Sabbatus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 513
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Mickey Finn Feather Wing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 467
Re: Mickey Finn Feather Wing
WOW... That looks nothing like the hair wing Mick Finns I learned to tie a lifetime ago.
Nice job on those married slips!
Nice job on those married slips!
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Ondawa
- Replies: 6
- Views: 518
Re: Ondawa
Swing that in the dark when Drakes are around...
Nice job, Norm.
Nice job, Norm.