faux Honey Dun Flymph

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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by zen leecher » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:10 am

I'm glad Scott joined the forum. He does a number of "step by steps" on the Washington flyfishing forum. I wish I had his patience and eye to detail when photographing the steps.

When I first saw his method of obtaining honey dun feathers my thoughts were...... now if he could only come up with Golden Plover.
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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by Old Hat » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:13 pm

I'll give a bit of a late welcome Scott.

Great post and photos. I have used markers before to adjust the color of hackle a bit. Not this particular brand. Will be interested to see how it holds up.

I think I recognize your name for other sites as well. I assume you are the same ScottP that post all the fine SBS' on Westfly.
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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by ScottP » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:22 am

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Soaked the feather in warm, soapy water for a while, rinsed it off and the dye job seems to be intact. Whether it's officially waterproof or not, I think it'll hold up long enough.

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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by Smuggler » Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:57 am

Looks good to me! Great job.
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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by crazy4oldcars » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:57 pm

Only has to last until it catches something. Tree, submerged tree, rocks, oh, or a fish. :lol:
Welcome, Scott. I was reading thru your SBS's in the other group. Thank you very much for posting them.

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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by ScottP » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:36 pm

zen leecher wrote:When I first saw his method of obtaining honey dun feathers my thoughts were...... now if he could only come up with Golden Plover.
Bill,

First try using some sharptail body feathers. May have to work on the shade a bit (too orange?); don't have any of the real thing to judge it against

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As a bonus, the aftershaft feather came out pretty neat; it'll find it's way onto some PMD flies.

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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by Ruard » Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:35 pm

Hi Scot,

Here is a link to pictures of the real thing:

http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... ard#p10275

greeting

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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by letumgo » Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:08 am

Somehow I missed this post earlier. Great tip Scott. I should add one of these markers to my travel tying kit. It's a good way to adjust a pattern, without the need to drag all my hackle along.
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Re: faux Honey Dun Flymph

Post by Smuggler » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:08 pm

Good thinking Ray!
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