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by PhilA
Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:42 pm
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: Pearsalls Color Chart
Replies: 54
Views: 673636

Re: Pearsalls Color Chart

ronr, Pearsall's made several different silk threads for stitching, embroidery, rod building, fly tying, etc. The two Pearsall's threads used most often for fly tying and rod wrapping are Gossamer and Naples. Pearsall's Gossamer is 126 denier, which is an industry standard measure of thread size rel...
by PhilA
Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:00 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Silk question
Replies: 9
Views: 3192

Re: Silk question

This is a brand of silk thread that might have potential. I've never seen it mentioned. https://pipers-silks.com/buying-guide/split-cane-fishing-rod-builders-restorers I've used Pipers Silks, and my opinion is a bit mixed. They offer a wide range of silk threads, and I've only tied with smaller siz...
by PhilA
Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:06 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge & Yellow
Replies: 52
Views: 17192

Re: Partridge & Yellow

dd, Thanks for that link and the correction about coch-y-bonddu dates. A fly identical to the Coch-y-Bonddu (peacock body, red-black hackle) goes under many different names well back into the 1700s. But, the name for the hackle and the Coch-y-Bonddu fly itself came later. The only thing more confusi...
by PhilA
Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:59 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge & Yellow
Replies: 52
Views: 17192

Re: Partridge & Yellow

Do you know how the wing would be tied? A split wing indicates a upright wing, on a wet fly? Cochybondu yet again, I assume it was plentiful back then as was the Spey chicken. Barry Barry, My understanding is that the original tie had divided wings, but whether they were upright or swept backwards ...
by PhilA
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:22 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge & Yellow
Replies: 52
Views: 17192

Re: Partridge & Yellow

The closest recipe I know of as the authentic original Greenwell's Glory is in Ewen Tod's 1903 book Wet-Fly Fishing Treated Methodically . Although the book was published 50 years after that fateful day on the River Tweed, Tod states that he obtained the pattern directly from Canon Greenwell himself...
by PhilA
Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:06 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge & Yellow
Replies: 52
Views: 17192

Re: Partridge & Yellow

Any idea what year the right worshipful Greenwell invented the fly named after him? Is there a published dressing from him? Origins of the Greenwell's Glory is well chronicled in several books, and the story is quite entertaining. Here is a short version online: https://www.swtu.org/2018/02/08/gree...
by PhilA
Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:56 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Clark's Spinning Block vs The Dubber
Replies: 70
Views: 203314

Re: Clark's Spinning Block vs The Dubber

I haven't made many blocks in the past couple years and I'm out of finished blocks besides a couple that I owe people. I am working on them. I just found a couple pics I took when I was doing more of the exotic woods and thought I would share them... William, That's a magnificent photo! Block No. M...
by PhilA
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:50 pm
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: Just in English Wood cock..
Replies: 2
Views: 1596

Re: Just in English Wood dock.

I go through quite a lot of woodcock wings, and those are in pristine condition. Mine often arrive somewhat ragged. Raggedness doesn't matter for the marginal coverts, but those primaries are in great shape.

Phil
by PhilA
Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:55 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge and Blue. Mole colour effect
Replies: 28
Views: 9438

Re: Partridge and Blue. Mole colour effect

About the color blue in trout flies... John "Jack" Atherton was an eloquent proponent of impressionism in fly design. "Impressionism" to him meant rendering a perception of reality rather than its true form. He was an accomplished artist who brought an understanding of light, col...
by PhilA
Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:47 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge and Blue. Mole colour effect
Replies: 28
Views: 9438

Re: Partridge and Blue. Mole colour effect

It's important to consider the depths involved in the above charts and graphs. The visible wavelengths of light are scattered and absorbed in clear water, but the distances involved are quite large relative to typical fishing depths. This chart expresses the effect of depth on light penetration a bi...