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- Thu Feb 25, 2021 12:20 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: European Blackbird
- Replies: 5
- Views: 43
Re: European Blackbird
I got a couple wing years ago from Ellis Slater. They were dyed black starling wings.
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:51 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Hatching Dun March Brown Soft Hackles
- Replies: 0
- Views: 22
Hatching Dun March Brown Soft Hackles
Tied these quite awhile back after seeing a YouTube video and think it's one of the prettiest soft hackles I've ever tied. Unfortunately, I've given most of them away and will have to tie a few moe in the near future.
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:28 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Did You Ever Tie a Fly that You Don't Remember?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24
Did You Ever Tie a Fly that You Don't Remember?
I was going through some old pics and found this one of what I thought were a dressing called "Broughton Point". But I sure don't remember tying them and I can't find them in my fly boxes. Isn't an old man's memory something else?
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:51 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Tup’s dubbing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 149
Re: Tup’s dubbing
Drop me a PM. I think I can probably spare a small bag of Tup's for you to try.
Bob
Bob
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:50 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: English Partridge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 136
Re: English Partridge
Nature's Spirits "Premium Partridge" skins are very nice and have lots of the smaller hackles with good coloring.
Bob
Bob
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:04 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Winged Starling & Eggplant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 110
Winged Starling & Eggplant
If I had any purple Gossamer silk, I'd probably call this dressing a "Winged Starling & Purple." But since I no longer have any purple Gossamer silk, thus the name change. If you look closely, I tie in the starling hackle by the tip on top of the hook, do a couple thread wraps of YLI10...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:11 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Little Gray Bastard :-)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 369
Re: Little Gray Bastard :-)
When I first read the name, I thought someone named a fly after me. Then I realized that the word "Little" couldn't be me!
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:38 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Visiting John Shaner (Fly Tying Historian)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 29403
Re: Visiting John Shaner (Fly Tying Historian)
Oliver Edwards did a video quite awhile back where he ties Sawyer's Killer Bug exactly as Sawyer specified in Sawyer's book "Nymph & the Trout". It's my understanding that Lee Wulff actually named it.
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:19 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Tummel Style Fly Tying (Article by David Westwood)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1883
Re: Tummel Style Fly Tying (Article by David Westwood)
Thanks for jogging my memory of the artcile that I copied many moons ago and haven't looked at for quite awhile.
Bob
Bob
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:58 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: I've been busy ....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 229