The hot action can be at the prime lies in the river. This is what I meant by fishing areas that actually hold fish. Most always fish in a stream will be near some structure or cover; structure gives them a resting place from the current and cover hides them from both prey and predators. Those long...

Yes all the water can be fished with wet flies, including ponds, but I try to only fish areas that actually hold fish. I always catch more fish when I go slowly.

The search results I got before asking what "4B hen feathers" are returned all sorts of results about decor and none about tying flies and some stuff about elevator parts; so thank you for suggesting I repeat that search. I now know just as much about your contribution as I care to. A repl...

DUBBN wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:15 pm

Trevis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:37 am Dun4B Hen feathers? Unknown to me.
Fly looks fishy.

GOOGLE it.

yep, wall & garden decor, Thanks.

See, now I'm sorry that I found this forum. I'm 69 and have never actually seen or touched Pearsalls silk thread (or any silk thread); til now never felt there was any need to. Must be reasons that they quit using it? Now I find that I have 'missed the boat'. For over forty years I thought I was tyi...

Dun4B Hen feathers? Unknown to me.
Fly looks fishy.

Do you think that if nylon thread was invented in, say 1880, that Leisenring would have used it? I have always thought that the tyers of wet flies were pragmatists, using the feathers from their supper (or the laird's supper) and thread filched from the sewing basket. I have imagined that if they ha...

Silica gel is kinda like a sponge, once it is wet it has to be dried before it can hold any more water. I use it to dry my hearing aides, ~1/4 cup in a closed container, and about once a month it has to go into the micro wave and get dry again, many snows past when I was a young sailor we used bags ...

I like the one you hackled, looks fishy. The material reminds me surgical gloves from the photo. The finished fly for some reason reminds me of some I saw done with colored UV goo.

Wasn't Gary color blind?