Did another article today for our local TU Chapter's monthly newsletter and in going through some old pics, I found a scanned pic of a Pheasant Tail & Golden Plover fly that I tied back in 2009. Haven't tied any more of these since then but will have to add it to "The List" for tying t...

Years ago, I was lucky to receive a full Golden Plover skin from a friend and also a wing or two since then. I love tying various dressings with the GP hackles and I think the GP hackles are one of the prettiest hackles available.

Interesting that in the UK, it's called an Endrick Spider but in the US many of us call it a weighted Pheasant Tail and Partridge soft hackle. I've tied both the weighted and unweighted PTSHs for many years and also include peacock herl, hare's ear / hot spots, etc in the same dressing / same materi...

Quite a few years ago, I was introduced to Alec Jackson, the famous Salmon and Spey fly dresser, and I was able to order my Pearsall silks threads, flosses and Alec's North Country / Spider hooks directly from Alec as he was the North American importer and distributor for the Pearsall silks from Pea...

I posted this on the "Classic Rod Forum" but think that some here might also be interested in what I recently experienced while fishing Michigan's Au Sable River this past week: "This past Tuesday - Saturday, a friend and I fished various parts of the Au Sable River in Michigan. Nope,...

Will post pics once I get a chance to tie a few. Have several dyed pheasant tail colors and the dark red, orange and black make nice pt nymphs.

A few weeks ago, I got a pair of dyed purple pheasant tails. Haven't yet used them but plan on tying a few with either snipe or golden plover hackles ... maybe even a few with grey partridge. Anyone else use purple PTs ? Thanks.

William Interesting that you mentioned using a gold ribbing on your P&Os. Although the "standard" P&O, P&Y, P&G, etc. all work fine, I'm starting to tie (and fish) more of the old dressings with wire ribbing and a peacock herl thorax or head. More towards the dressings that...

William I love the colors used and the blending of the colors in E & L's March Brown. The European Snipe Rump Feathers have a distinctly different coloring and texture when compared to a Snipe's wing feathers / hackles and in some ways, appear to be close to a Golden Plover's feathers. Speaking ...

Re: Partridge hooks, many of the old (and I mean OLD), Capt. Hamilton hooks can be obtained from Richard Jefferies, who now lives in France. I've purchased quite a few different Partridge hooks from Richard for well over 10+ years and have never had a problem with the trout hooks that I get from him...