I see Carl Sanders has an article in the print version of Soft-Hackle Journal.
http://soft-hacklejournal.blogspot.com/
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- Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Soft-Hackle Journal - print edition
- Replies: 2
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- Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
- Replies: 15
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Puce dyed hackle.
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- Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:26 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Lou, As a fly tyer dyer I’ve had to look up those colors. The word puce means flea in French.I dyed both light and dark puce. The colors are based on the the back and belly of a flea. The dye recipes are more than 200 years old. http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com/2018/01/puce-flea-colour.htm...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
- Replies: 15
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
This is the part of the book where Skues describes the different styles.
https://archive.org/details/wayoftroutw ... 8/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/wayoftroutw ... 8/mode/2up
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24603
Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Great tip hank!
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
- Replies: 15
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
If anyone wants to follow RickA’s suggestion I can offer a few clues. Hampshire: Halford Derbyshire: Ogden, Hofland Yorkshire: Pritt, Edmonds & Lee The Commonplace: David McPhail Devon: Cutcliffe Tweed: David Webster Clyde & Tummel: Reid Usk & Teme: Flies of Wales by Moc Morgan might hav...
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
- Replies: 15
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
I’m happy to hear that my post was something people wanted to see. In regard to the Clyde and Tummel style flies; in "Scottish Trout Flies" by W H Lawrie the author wrote "It has been said that the Highlander liked two things naked - his whisky and his women - but the old Tummel fishe...
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Historic English fly tying styles.
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Historic English fly tying styles.
Historically there were a number of fly tying styles in England. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century information and travel were much more limited. So fishermen living in Yorkshire would have known the North Country style of flies, for example. This plate from Skues gives some idea of the ...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Pale Yellow Dun 1839
- Replies: 11
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Re: Pale Yellow Dun 1839
Reading through Hofland’s book it appears to me that all of his flies are winged except for a couple of palmers. The illustration quality is poor but number 7 is the fly in question.
https://archive.org/details/britishangl ... 1/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/britishangl ... 1/mode/1up
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 8:39 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Wax question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3626
Re: Wax question
My cobbler’s wax is sticky enough to hold dubbing tight to the thread. A number of fly tyers who tie-in-hand (no vise) use my cobbler’s wax.