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by hankaye
Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:13 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Chicken or Egg
Replies: 22
Views: 8838

Re: Chicken or Egg

Otter, I find that the mental gymnastics that you enjoy so much are far better for me to enjoy as you relate them rather than for myself to attempt. Primaraly due to the fact that I am still a novice at fly fishing. I am enjoying the insights that you as well as others are allowing me to have so tha...
by hankaye
Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:06 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: White Witch
Replies: 13
Views: 5149

Re: White Witch

I for one do NOT know what makes them tick.

What I DO know is it is NOT a fine Swiss watch movement...

hank
by hankaye
Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:07 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: White Witch
Replies: 13
Views: 5149

Re: White Witch

Had some of those 'Activists" do the same thing here in Utah 2 yrs. ago. Not so many got out, but, the "Friends" of the critters let them out of their climate controled environment in the middle of winter. Temps. were down to - 20 or so at night. Found a few 'mink-cikles' over the nex...
by hankaye
Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:12 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: synthetic materials..
Replies: 23
Views: 11661

Re: synthetic materials..

Got to thinking again (I know shouldn't do that to often), ... anyway, her goes;

Didn't some of the older tapisteries have threads of Gold and Silver as well as clothes for the wealthy?
Wouldn't it be possiable for some of those to "slip" into a fly here and there???

just askin'
by hankaye
Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:31 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: new to the site here are some of fly's I made up this week
Replies: 11
Views: 4816

Re: new to the site here are some of fly's I made up this week

Howdy, ... Welcome,

Good looking flys, like the 3rd. (all Partridge), the best.
by hankaye
Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:24 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Little Black Spider aka Callie's Spider
Replies: 12
Views: 5371

Re: Little Black Spider aka Callie's Spider

I've, erm, been playing again! :lol: Called Callie's Spider after my friend who is good enough to put me up on her farm from time to time. And she wears black a lot. She also breeds - or bred - various exotic chickens, and has given me a lot of beautiful feathers to play with over the last few year...
by hankaye
Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:03 pm
Forum: Reference Material
Topic: Dyeing wingless wets.
Replies: 9
Views: 13960

Re: Dyeing wingless wets.

Was (on the cover), March 1842. I also did a quick Goo-Goo search of oil of vitriol ... ='s sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Nasty stuff. When I drove over the road I hauled Hazardous Waste. When the Government shut down some of the old dye makers we had to pull the smelly stuff to 'secure landfills' for disp...
by hankaye
Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: Tutorials / Step-by-Steps / Video Demos
Topic: Tips on Digital photography
Replies: 15
Views: 16716

Re: Tips on Digital photography

Maybe run a sub or baby forum just for photo tips, hints and how tos...?

just askin....
by hankaye
Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:34 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Sumatra Spider
Replies: 3
Views: 2093

Re: Sumatra Spider

I like the way you play...
by hankaye
Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:09 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Silk Threads
Replies: 22
Views: 10889

Re: Silk Threads

Thanks Joe, So far been my experience as well. ;)