When it comes to subs, there are a lot of factors that come into play: color, size, shape and structure of each feather--. I don't have a dove, alas, but here's a pic of a dotterel, a (golden) plover, and a curlew, so you have a sense of the relative size of each bird. Long term, an ideal plan would...

1) Your guess is as good as mine 2) Your guess is as good as mine In other words--I have no bloody idea and would have to research both. I'll bring some of the Mills flies north this spring and you can try them out. You'll need a tin with felt pads to soak the gut though, you have one already, don't...

Mills imported flies from England, the world supplier of commercial flies for many years, but Alfred Miller (Sparse Grey Hackle) writes: "Three of Thomas Bates Mills six children became active in the William Mills business - Eddie, the caster; "old" Arthur: and Chester, who because o...

Amazing flies--and materials, John--thanks for sharing. I especially like how the hackle is tied in small bundles--which is easier said than done. To turn the thread back to its original purpose, can you tell us and show us how you are storing the flies?--and the envelopes too? The envelopes seem qu...

Full bird skins may be impressive to look at but it makes sense to remove the feathers that you will actually use and give or throw the rest away. I do this with partridge skins and other birds that I use a lot. The old timers who had neither the modern pesticides or containers we have knew that in...

I will not try to persuade anyone to use Sevin Dust. In todays Organic society, it has a bad reputation. Even though, for decades this product was used as a poultry delouser, and used on pets bedding to get rid of the fleas off of Fido. After that regiment, the neck will be placed in a drawer with ...

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. As for this: I have been using for about 15 years now what Walt Dette used and have had no problems whatsoever. Simply whole cloves. They have a pleasant aroma and have proven to be very satisfactory! I suppose they might be a deterrent, but with the caveat that the...

Open it up and throw it in your your/bin/drawer/bag. Well, I have 76 plastic tubs, from shoe boxes to big containers made for heavy duvets--plus another 20 or so boxes of vintage flies from the archive project--that's a lot of pest strips, I want to find a balance between the volume of space, and t...

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As Dana said on the Golden Plover thread, we need a thread on safe material storage. The apocalypse finally struck me at last--it was bound to happen--when I discovered intruders in my tub of Collins capes. $%#@!! But it wasn't too bad--it seems a single cape got past my usual quarantining process, ...