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- Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Partridge and Pearsall's ..........Pick a Color
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1108
Re: Partridge and Pearsall's ..........Pick a Color
I'm off work today for the Federal holiday. It was a brutal 2 degrees again here this AM in Central Oklahoma. Wanted to get some time at the vise, which lately has been far too infrequent, before watching our 13-year-old granddaughter play basketball this afternoon. I thought I would pull some feat...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Polish Soft Hackles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 999
Re: Polish Soft Hackles
I'm seriously looking forward to a 'stream report' from that box!
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Fish Hawk
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1318
Re: Fish Hawk
You know, Norm, if you keep working at this fly tying thing you might just get good at it some day.
...that fly actually looks like a 'fly of prey', diving at speed towards and unsuspecting fish.
...that fly actually looks like a 'fly of prey', diving at speed towards and unsuspecting fish.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Polish HS Bead Head
- Replies: 1
- Views: 774
Re: Polish HS Bead Head
I can make this pattern work over on the Little Madawaska; consider it stolen.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3007
Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
That same spirit of generosity always came through in his emails and the notes he would send up. I never got to meet him in person; the closest thing was a phone call we shared a few years ago. I still wander back through his site all the time!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3007
Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Doug, it would be an honor to take your ties to the waters of northern Maine. I had the great privilege of being a guinea pig for some of Alan Petrucci's ties (BrkTrt). He would tie something weird and send it up, asking me to give it a try on pure brookie water. Swinging your flies through the same...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3007
Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Hi again Guys! Mike62 - Thanks Mike! Do you suppose some brookies or browns or 'bows in your neck of the Maine woods would appreciate them? Doug in the Den Well, I know the brookies would certainly appreciate them. As for those other two species you mentioned, the bows and the browns, they don't ex...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Kinross
- Replies: 2
- Views: 524
Re: Kinross
First I've seen of this one; I like it.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Silver Invicta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 514
Re: Silver Invicta
Racy! Beautiful, Norm.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Golden Rod
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1050
Re: Golden Rod
Seal dubbing sucks! I like the Bergman version.