Nice score, DAVE!!! Skin it out, rub good with borax and you’re In business!! One thing I have learned is this: all critters have mites and ticks-what I do is put it in a freezer bag with a old piece of flea collar for a week. That will kill everything. Then I take it outside and skin it, or I take ...

That particular pelt is striking-there are a lot of different shades of color and texture, which is what you want in a really really good rabbit. Excellent find! Show us some finished product!!!!!!

Tell you what, Carl - that has to be one of the nicest spectral blends I have ever seen.....LIKE!!

Very nice Tom- Those patterns and others are stuck in all of our heads-that’s why were here

I don’t know about that OLD hook though-send all those old ALLCOCKS to THEROE for proper disposal !

joaniebo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:21 pm I was listening to a Grateful Dead YouTube video as I was tying the fly, thus decided on the "Red" name.

Which one? I have a couple of hundred shows to my credit......

Joe - I am IN !!!

Mike - We came across an even better one-it is the Mustad 57552

I’m really feeling the “hook porn” thread for Flymph Forum

Wood thrush???

I can send you some ....

I like that pattern, Bob....very nice. And the hook, too.....Daiichi’s 1710 is one of my all time favorites. Size 10&12 are very close to the Allcocks W173.
Dana

WHEW :oops: What a relief-I thought I was about to be chastised by the great FORUM master for posting this in the wrong category( good humor intended-not the ice cream ) :lol: :lol: :lol: All kidding aside, I can’t wait to see those hooks-one of the guys who patronizes our local fly shop mentioned t...