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- Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:43 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: New member intro
- Replies: 57
- Views: 32583
Re: New member intro
Fishnkilts and Jean-Luc, welcome to the Flymph Forum. As Ray says, there is a lot of information here if you search. I live in New England, on the Massachusetts side of the New Hampshire border. My father was V.S. “Pete” Hidy, which is why I belong to the forum. I don’t fish or tie as much as other ...
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: May fly Honey Dun a V.S. Hidy pattern.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2861
Re: May fly Honey Dun a V.S. Hidy pattern.
Beautiful flymph!
So good to see you at Fly Fest.
So good to see you at Fly Fest.
- Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:00 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Leisenring Hares ear and Woodcock.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8317
Re: Leisenring Hares ear and Woodcock.
Excellent!
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:00 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Availability of Spider Materials Today
- Replies: 40
- Views: 22911
Re: Availability of Spider Materials Today
Thanks for starting this very interesting thread, John. After the Audubon Society successfully lobbied congress to write laws prohibiting the sale of many bird feathers, Leisenring wrote to Pete Hidy (Jan 29, 1942): Have you noticed in our Book how few Bird feathers are needed? If you have not you h...
- Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:10 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Caddis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2606
Re: Caddis
Excellent, as is always the case with flies from your vise. Nice photograph too.
Lance
Lance
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:43 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Question About Jim Leisenring's Family
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4988
Re: Question About Jim Leisenring's Family
Hi Ken, I, too, was curious last year when I discovered the posting with photographs about a Leonard rod owned by E. B. Leisenring. Unfortunately I couldn't find any link between the two fishermen other than their name. The Leisenrings came over during the Colonial era, so there were numerous branch...
- Fri May 31, 2019 4:56 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Remembering Mark L.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6128
Re: Remembering Mark L.
Thanks for reminding us of Mark, Ron.
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:27 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Presentation Methods
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7649
Re: Presentation Methods
Hi Carl, As you probably remember, in The Sports Illustrated Book of Wet-Fly Fishing (1961), Pete Hidy wrote a chapter on stream strategy, pages 29-53. You might want to take a look again. He gives a number of presentation ideas that are surely a mixture of things he learned from Leisenring, and fro...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Tups Indispensable
- Replies: 75
- Views: 204576
Re: Tups Indispensable
Here is Leisenring's version of the Tups Nymph. This is from the set of twelve favorite flies that Leisenring gave to Charley Rethoret, owner of Hotel Rapids on the Brodheads in Analomink, PA. The set of flies eventually was purchased by Bernie Pociask, now deceased, who let me photograph them. I do...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:57 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: "Emergers" in 1895?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8518
Re: "Emergers" in 1895?
Good stuff, John.