This information is really appreciated, thanks for posting it; a fantastic read. When I got here I thought I knew a little. After my first week I realized just how little...

Beautiful flies. I have a soft spot for that very pattern; I took a 6lb. Salmon from the Fish River just below Fort Kent one summer evening a few years back while using it. Of course yours are far more attractive than mine were.

I picked mine up at a yard sale for .25 cents. Same yard sale yielded a Remington model 11 in 12g for $40.00 (I didn't ask why, I grabbed it and ran off thinking I just scored the deal of the century) After careful consideration the book was the far better purchase. Years later, long after I'd given...

Gary Borger book "Designing Trout Flies" has a section detailing the colors of feathers on a number different game birds. He has diagrams showing the locations where you can find the various feathers on a bird. One downside is the colors are keyed to the "Borger Color System". Y...

I haven't read "The Feather Thief" yet. Now I will. I'm coming to the party late in life. I've been tying my entire fishing life but it is only recently that my knowledge of certain practices, authors, materials, and the lack of availability of all three has been heightened. I love the fee...

That's amazing! I had no idea the colors changed so dramatically.

Thanks for posting these flies here, Alan; they're gorgeous.

wsbailey wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:56 am The easy way.


https://m.wikihow.life/Dye-Polyester

Thank you for the link. There's just enough involved in the process to make me feel like I'm not cheating somehow. In my next life I will faithfully attend all those science-y courses I skipped out on in this one.

Having never attended a chemistry class of any kind I'm feeling a little out of my depth here. Look, I just got the hang of playing with Koolaid and now we're talking mordants, sulfuric acid, and something called 'anthocyanin'. All I want to do is channel my inner Burt Gummer and dye a bunch of whit...

Turns out making the blocks is the easy part. Question: After I get the body spun up and slip it onto a card like William does, I still have an issue with the body wanting to unravel while on the card. (try a thicker card perhaps?) Problem #2. The thread is waxed thoroughly, twisted up, and let sit...