Trifly wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:00 am I am in the Wholesale Fly Company camp as well. I have started replacing my now discontinued Dai-Riki stock with them.

Wait... are you saying Dai-Riki is discontinuing their line of hooks, phasing out certain model numbers,
or you just like Wholesale Fly better?

I believe he does Ron. Not a better deal going anywhere. I'll second that, and yes, he does include the saddle. I was sorry Charlie was not at the FFS in Jersey last January. Apparently the cost for vendors became prohibitive. He always had a selection of variants that were just a little different ...

Dana was tying a few of those patterns at Fly Fest 2019 last February.
I don't have the quills he had but I'm having fun tying "Scotch style"
Ray, There's a good chance that the hackle on those are from Darbee too.
( I took a peek at his stash )

That has Cahill written all over it.
Very Nice!

jcwillow777 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:04 pm Thanks for posting this John. Yet another book to add to my library!

I received my copy yesterday. It's a 1972 second printing in great shape and only set me back a Jackson.

Very nice!
Those "Fuzzy Heads" fished in riffles during a Green Drake hatch would be a blast.
Well done Mr. Dougsden.

That is a mink, Dave. The white "beard" and dark coat is typical winter attire. You will see that they do have slightly webbed feet too. Big claws + nasty set of choppers = one mean critter. Take the time to process the pelt as Dana suggested. I have a beige mottled stole I'm taking apart ...

Ray, I stored my hooks the same way until my then young son dumped the box sending several hundred hooks to the floor and rug under my tying bench....oops. A magnet made quick work of the mess but I lost a few dozen that went with the rug. I spent countless hours sorting the hooks and always found a...

I was thinking the same thing, Dana. I tie something similar with an estaz body and calf tail wing. Swing them on a sinktip through the thalwag and hang on. We had a banner run last spring on the upper Delaware. Shad were in the Beaverkill and a few were caught in the Willow too. Since American Shad...

Thanks for the size info. Midges often skew toward the tiny, yet there are the relatively huge ones folks tie on #8s. Ha! I'm on the upper Delaware system and we fish a size 4 soft hackle we call the "Delaware Midge" during the green drake spinner fall. It's all in the dark and drives oth...