If a bird is legally hunted and killed, anyone, including the hunter but especially the receiver of any gifted feathers, must maintain documentation of who did the kill, and their hunting id numbers from the state they hunted! Also needed is the date of kill and location. I keep the info on a card w...

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Rorschach test for Fly Tyers
What do you see?

Did you see that one coming down the line?
Have a great day!
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Oh, but I know some hungry Crappie that will suck up anything of a fl.chartreuse and black! Really a sweet looking fly! Teamed with a hot orange and black and there would be nothing else needed!
Thank you for sharing!
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Thus the beginning of over hackling...the act of rethinking, instead of following direction. Though, I see your reasoning and raise to logic....
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And I thought I was alone.... Wow! It seems my story starts off much like some have said... But there was a time where I started sneaking in extra hackle. It wasn't like just adding a rap.... no.. I got creative... I started rapping the traditional 1 1/2 to 2 raps, with a properly sized feather.... ...

While the following quote is in reference of the various ways of fishing with a focus on fly fishing, I can only think that these words play equally well to the sharing of Fly Tying: From Page 46, "The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams...." "In the foregoing pages, our remarks hav...

Surly not to deviate from the issues of feathers, and hen, specifically but may I add a thought... In teaching at a local fly show, I have be privileged to be handed many a pac of this or that.... something thought by another in his venture to "make a buck"... "stuff" packaged wi...

The Fly does catch! Its caught all who has posted! Really though what intrigues me most is how that color causes the segmentation of the feather to "pop"!!
Great tying too!
Thanks...
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Was always impressed with the "fineness" of that fly! LOL that's why I was so excited when he made not of a "Pop" fly... now realizing it was the Pop-Top Flies he noted.... Both are great examples of great tying...
Thanks!
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Not sure why, but the original link is no longer going through (at least when I tried it!) I was able to find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx5BW9t30cY


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