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by hankaye
Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:55 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Some Alice Conba flies (warning: picture heavy!)
Replies: 21
Views: 8484

Re: Some Alice Conba flies (warning: picture heavy!)

Ya'll gonna get tired of me sayin'
WOW!!!
by hankaye
Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:03 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Couple of spiders...
Replies: 4
Views: 2510

Re: Couple of spiders...

Good job, nicley done.

Them be purdy bugs ...
by hankaye
Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:02 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: The rookie asks another question
Replies: 19
Views: 8361

Re: The rookie asks another question

Donald, I didn't think so otherwise I'd have kept my fingers in their mittens.
Have you ever tried to type in mittins? Sort of like having a gag in one's mouth.
Your correct though. Back to the topic.
I appoligize for the hijack.
by hankaye
Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:55 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: The rookie asks another question
Replies: 19
Views: 8361

Re: The rookie asks another question

Donald, I did not mean to insulting.
It's purely a matter of prospective. For you those that dwell in Kent and Surrey would be Southerners I would imagine.
Those down in the “Brokers Belt” :lol:
Ya'll in yorkshire would qualify for anyone North of Hadrian’s wall :shock:
respectfully,
hank
by hankaye
Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:46 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: The rookie asks another question
Replies: 19
Views: 8361

Re: The rookie asks another question

That was merely my understanding, perhaps it was a MISunderstanding. :o :lol:
by hankaye
Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:44 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: The rookie asks another question
Replies: 19
Views: 8361

Re: The rookie asks another question

Donald, As Ma Nature is funny about being able to see the difference 'twixt hims an hers the Cock has brighter colored feathers with the belly being black and a dividing line of white 'tween the 'golden' feathers and the black feathers. The juvie's colors are not as bright as the adult nor are the H...
by hankaye
Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:07 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: The rookie asks another question
Replies: 19
Views: 8361

Re: The rookie asks another question

Donald, Got to puttering around on some more websites. Checked out the one you posted, very nice if not a bit spendy. The Plover that they show in the photo is a Hen. I determined this by checking the following; http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/1020/overview/European_Golden-Plover.aspx Here they sho...
by hankaye
Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:11 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Pearsall's brown gossamer breaks easily?
Replies: 9
Views: 4657

Re: Pearsall's brown gossamer breaks easily?

Remember the older thread (if you are lucky to have some) was dyed using vegetable extracts. Since the late 1900's alternatives have been used. I have found breakage to occur sometimes with my older threads (I have 50 plus spools in the older colours that are older than 20 years) and when this occu...
by hankaye
Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Greenwell's Spider (variant)
Replies: 14
Views: 6308

Re: Greenwell's Spider (variant)

It was told to me by someone much wiser than myself that; "We must all learn to practice acceptance of those things in life over which we have no control."
I take that to mean everything. :?

And... that is one good lookin "wee fly"