Very interesting info. Thanks.

Now I'm really confused! If I recall correctly, I downloaded / copied the info many years ago from (possibly) Don Nicolson's old web site. I tried today to do a web search from the old links I had for Don Nicolson's site to no avail. But I did find a pic on Abe Books (https://www.anglebooks.com/list...

A couple more historical lists of dressings:

A couple more lists of fly dressings:

Dave

Hope the info works for you. Right now, my TU buddy and I plan on being your way the first week in June. Will be staying at a friend's place in Roscommon. Cheers

Bob

Nicely done Bob, I really like the effect of your starling hackle. A few questions for you. Is the starling tied in by the tip or the base of the feather? and do you you wrap to the front or to the back? I have tried a few times to replicate the hackle as shown and have been unsuccessful. Any insig...

Ken I used small pieces of red and yellow wool tied one on top of the other and then the point of a dubbing needle to separate the wool fibers until the two wools made an orange color tail. Described in the "Orange Otter" book as: "Loose longish wisp of yellowish-orange wool to suggest the protrudin...

Very nice. Several years ago, a friend in Europe mistakenly had a Golden Plover skin shipped to me (a PayPal "ship to" mistake he made) and then he told me to keep it. Used those GP hackles for quite awhile until last Fall, when I was able to get another full skin from Cookshill. Sent the old one to...

I was going to post this under the "Leisenring Hackles" subject but decided not to hijack another's posting. Fly dressings with a peacock body (green, bronze, etc.) are some of my favorite flies to tie and fish (my VERY favorite being Edmonds' & Lee's 8b March Brown). Whether with a wet or dry fly h...

John

Next time you do a presentation of the old dressings, please let me know. I would have included more in the stuff I recently sent you, although I do think there were a couple of the old dressings including E&L's March Brown.

Bob