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- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Great Red Spinner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 632
Re: Great Red Spinner
Ray, The color is one of the many ten gram tests that I made using mohair. The mohair is bleached. Rosborough wrote the bleaching give fibers translucence. This is what Ronalds says: 6. TO DYE FEATHERS VARIOUS SHADES OF RED, AMBER, AND BROWN. First boil them in the alum mordant (see No.1); secondly,...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Great Red Spinner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 632
Great Red Spinner
I posted this on the FB flymph group but since not everone is on FB I’m posting here too.In researching the Great Red Spinner, I noticed that Leisenring’s pattern is almost the same as Alfred Ronalds’. One difference is that Ronalds gives a dye recipe for the bright amber red hackle. While pondering...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: CELLIRE thinner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1803
Re: CELLIRE thinner
What about shipping flammable liquids from the UK?
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Ruz-Du
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1322
Re: Ruz-Du
“French Fishing Flies” by Jean-Paul Pequegnot. Another fly in the book is Peute.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Ruz-Du
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1322
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Heron Herl...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19479
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin
- Replies: 16
- Views: 19452
Re: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin
I follow Cookshill on FB. Steve posts pictures when he has them. From now to January seems to be when he has them. The last one was listed for £25 in November 2022.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin
- Replies: 16
- Views: 19452
Re: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin
Cookshill has them occasionally.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: CREATIVE GEWE WET FLIES
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16896
Re: CREATIVE GEWE WET FLIES
The tyer’s name is Geert. I’ve been an online friend with him for many years. His enthusiastic but fractured English can be very entertaining. I used to teach English as a second language years ago so I can deal with it for the most part. I once found a dead barred owl along side a road, The feather...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Pheasant wings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20408
Re: Pheasant wings
Skues writes that the secondaries are good for March browns and sedges.