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- Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:09 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Gray Grizzly Flymph
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3865
Re: Gray Grizzly Flymph
Carl, You are channeling Pete Hidy in this, from stem to stern. The wraps of silk in the cone-shaped head look exactly like his signature style. I agree with Ray, it has that "If I could only use one fly, that would be the one!" look to it. The guard hairs seem to be something Pete was alw...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6447
Re: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
Really interesting! Thanks for posting this link.
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:22 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Smaller flymphs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15952
Re: Smaller flymphs
Oh, man, Dana, if only I could tie like that.
That second fly is starting to look a lot like an olive version of the black gnat patterns that my dad tied for droppers—but his were a little bigger, and didn't have tails.
That second fly is starting to look a lot like an olive version of the black gnat patterns that my dad tied for droppers—but his were a little bigger, and didn't have tails.
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5277
Re: Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
Thanks, guys, for this string of really interesting and useful comments. I should go back and look at the original scan of the flies, and see if I inadvertently lightened the colors.
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- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6447
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:42 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5277
Re: Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
Well, I think we all have the same question. And did you ever see any blue in a blue dun feather, or in a bluetick hound? I'm guessing British farmer/fly-tiers had developed an alternative way of referring to color in their livestock, dogs, and poultry. Their unconventional color vocabulary lingers ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:22 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6447
Re: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
Because of the Depression, Pete Hidy dropped out of Wittenberg College after his sophomore year. When the bank foreclosed on their houses in Springfield, Ohio, Pete, his grandparents, his mother and father, and two younger brothers, all moved to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. They found refuge in the lit...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:23 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6447
Re: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
Here's a quote from a letter that Jim wrote to Pete in November, 1940, while they were finishing up the book: Now when you go to Nolls to exchange the hooks get me two spools of Pearsalls fly tying silk (colour Claret or Maroon) no other now I dont mean red and send it up to me I dont have an inch o...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5277
Stewart's Red Spider tied by Leisenring
This fly was mounted in the framed set of 22 favorite flies that Jim Leisenring gave to Charley Rethoret, the proprietor of Hotel Rapids in 1941. The set was in the collection of Bernie Pociask who kindly let me scan them.
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:26 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6447
Jim Leisenring's Iron Blue Nymph, tied by him
This fly was mounted in the framed set of 22 favorite flies that Jim Leisenring gave to Charley Rethoret, the proprietor of Hotel Rapids in 1941. The set was in the collection of Bernie Pociask who kindly let me scan them.