Excellent, looks likes a replacement for film canisters that I was using for the same thing but have a lot of trouble getting hold off now.

At a guess of what was available...

Blue dun
Green well
Badger

Great looking segmentation with the hemp. I'm sure I haven't heard of hemp yarn being used before.

Thanks for the link, I think I made something similar years ago but lost it. I'll be making a new one when I get home on Friday.

Love the lies, in regards to the bodies and the wire. When I saw the post and the reference I thought brushes but the wire looks ribbed. Do you premake the brushes before tying them in. If you are dubbing onto the wire itself then, do you apply some form of wax? I'm thinking of an article in a very ...

Thanks for the great tutorial, the pictures round it of by being of such high quality. I will have to try some blending myself, I can get the wool from the shop 300 yards from my house. Got the blender already.

If I had to choose one cape for soft hackles it would be an English partridge skin. So many color variations on one skin.

These days I make the 2nd part of skin preservation the cleaning of the skin. The first having been the skinning of the beast. I find that the skin as much less fat in the skin itself thus making for a nicer quality skin when I finish. I preserve my skins along the same methods as written in From fi...

Roughly 50% of my wet flies I use down eyed hooks, otherwise its straights eyed. I don't use up eyed for anything apart for salmon flies. The reason I don't use up-eyed is simply because I have no faith in their hooking ability and partly because I used them years ago, I don't think they look very n...

Nice flies, are for the trout (Gillaroo?) that shoal in the depths of loughs like Mask?

Please can you give the titles of the books?

Ashley