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...

Skues writes that the secondaries are good for March browns and sedges.

One use I know of is for a tenkara fly. The feather used is the alula (kenbane in Japanese).

Lou, I started corresponding with Preben when I bought his book "Flyleaves"’ This was back in the day when you had to change currency at a bank and send it tucked in a magazine. He added the Spanish book as a gift. I wish I had gotten to know him sooner because he passed away a few months ...

Preben Torp Jacobsen sent me a copy of El Manuscripto de Astorga that he edited. It’s somewhere among many books.

https://www.anglebooks.com/el-manuscrit ... an-de-Berg ara-edited-by-preben-torp-jacobsen.html

Thanks for the tip Lou! I found it on eBay for $6.99 plus free shipping. Some of the best angling authors are Scottish. I own quite a few of their books plus digital versions from InternetArchive.

Great tip Wayne! There is also one for Apple:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t ... d278930814

Some hackle storage tips from Robert Smith

https://theslidingstream.net/fly-tying- ... treasures/

Ron, I believe you are correct about the hooks but none of the pictures show them. BTW, I borrowed the photos off of FB. Under the boxes is a set of Crawshaw’s dyes, The colors originated with Halford who wrote extensively about dyes and color. Crawshaw’s was eventually bought by Veniard who still s...

Old school storage: