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by DOUGSDEN
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Tutorials / Step-by-Steps / Video Demos
Topic: "Drinking Straw Wrangler" (DIY tying tool)
Replies: 13
Views: 2944

Re: "Drinking Straw Wrangler" (DIY tying tool)

Ray, Does your mind ever quite working? You see a need and you create! Wait.....you're an engineer! (problem solver). The Drinking Straw Wrangler above is brilliantly simple and equally great in its ability to do what it's designed to do! We need to live within coffee cup distance of each other! I w...
by DOUGSDEN
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Polish Grizzly Soft Hackle
Replies: 6
Views: 1357

Re: Polish Grizzly Soft Hackle

Beautiful pattern Bill! It just has to catch a trout or two!
D.
by DOUGSDEN
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Polish Soft Hackles
Replies: 3
Views: 998

Re: Polish Soft Hackles

Bill,
What a box! These look amazing! Not only a stream report but lots of pictures too please! Lookout Oregon trout!
by DOUGSDEN
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Sanders' March Brown Soft Hackle (tyed by DOUGSDEN)
Replies: 18
Views: 3221

Re: Sanders' March Brown Soft Hackle (tyed by DOUGSDEN)

Hi Everyone! Again, a huge THANKS goes out to Ray for posting the pics I send to him! Thank you Friend! And, an equally huge THANKS goes out to all of you who lift me up with such great (and humorous - Mike!) comments and confidence in my tying! I stand as a sapling amoungst the tall trees of this f...
by DOUGSDEN
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Sanders' March Brown Soft Hackle (tyed by DOUGSDEN)
Replies: 18
Views: 3221

Re: Sanders' March Brown Soft Hackle (tyed by DOUGSDEN)

Hi Guys and a HUGE thank you Ray for posting these pics! Background.....here's my end of it! A few years ago (Carl, please make corrections where necessary!), Carl posted this pattern on his wonderful website "Old Hat" Flyfishing. I fell in love with this site and the pattern(s) within! I ...
by DOUGSDEN
Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Replies: 19
Views: 3003

Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

Beautiful replies Men! The structure of his site and the cordial, easy manor in which he corresponded with everyone is as if he's still right here with us! I never had the pleasure of meeting him or talking with him only thru e-mails and responses to his posts! I wish that I would have! Oh, to be in...
by DOUGSDEN
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:38 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Replies: 19
Views: 3003

Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

Mike, They are on their way to your den! Lemme know when they get there! Alan was a dandy! I had on occasion swapped patterns (not often enough though) and materials with him! Incredibly generous man! He held nothing back! He is still very much missed! Does anyone go back to his web-site and look ar...
by DOUGSDEN
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin
Replies: 16
Views: 19445

Re: Question - Looking for full Melanistic Pheasant skin

That bird is beautiful! It seems surreal in its amazing colors and super looking soft-hackles! Tworod, what a score!
Amazed (and slightly jealous) in the Den,
Dougsden
by DOUGSDEN
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Fish Hawk
Replies: 3
Views: 1316

Re: Fish Hawk

Another classic beauty Norm! There is something about your style of tying that makes each pattern alive and attractive to both us humanoids and to our friends who live under the surface tension!
Please keep filling us up with your beautiful patterns! We look forward to them everyday!
Dougs
by DOUGSDEN
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Kate
Replies: 6
Views: 1307

Re: Kate

Holy Cow Norm!
This is perfection right before our eyes! Thank you for what you do!
Doug in the Den