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- Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:00 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Kimono/Pearsall coordinated numbers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 126860
Re: Kimono/Pearsall coordinated numbers
Carl, I must have been still half asleep. I meant I prefer a well waxed no 4, Light yellow, to a well waxed no 3, primrose. I think it was Gwilym Hughes who suggested this practise and I tried it I liked the resulting olive colour. I will put up a link to a disgusting Dry fly tying video by him in t...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: GEM Skues numph
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4957
Re: GEM Skues numph
ff; your Instamatic works wonders!
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- Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:59 am
- Forum: Tutorials / Step-by-Steps / Video Demos
- Topic: Hackle Folding Tool
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10633
Re: Hackle Folding Tool
I have some silk underwear that due to wear needs to be replaced. Interested?
(Actually, I have replaced it with bamboo that feels almost the same).
dd
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:42 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Kimono/Pearsall coordinated numbers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 126860
Re: Kimono/Pearsall coordinated numbers
Plus when using a block to make dubbing ropes any slight color difference is really negated since most of it is covered by dubbing. This has to be very true. Also, when subsurface, that small difference should be minor too. At least to a human eye. Good work, Carl. How big is the difference between...
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:29 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tups Flymph
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7029
Re: Tups Flymph
Did you go there on horseback? dd Stefan, No, I was on foot fishing the lower meadow of Slough Creek (downstream of the Slough Creek Campground). It seems that in recent years the upper meadows of Slough (First and Second Meadow especially) are often more crowded than the lower meadow. Trout are be...
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:21 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: My Gossamer Collection....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1792
Re: My Gossamer Collection....
That would help you through the next few years. Then it starts all over again...
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- Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:17 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Devil’s Advocate and Morus Silk
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9443
Re: Devil’s Advocate and Morus Silk
To put things into perspective, how much money do you spend on silk, fur and feather on an average fishing trip and how much on petrol? And what does your trout want? :ugeek: Probably not your car. How many flies can you tie from a spool of silk and how many do you lose in a season? I fish a lot les...
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:58 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tups Flymph
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7029
Re: Tups Flymph
Just a wonderful fly and spectacular photography! Perhaps the award for best board photo of 2020 should be presented right now. Tup's nymphs have long been near and dear to me. My most satisfying fish of 2019 came to hand on a Tup's in July on Slough Creek in YNP. This well educated and hard-fished...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:45 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Hen cape - what color would call this?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7427
Re: Hen cape - what color would call this?
I checked 'The Book of the Hackle' by Frank Elder, 1979. He is of the opinion that the name 'greenwell' isn't needed, although "it has come into use in the last thirty years". He states that the hackle used by James Wright, although it was called coch-y-bondhu by Canon Greenwell, must have...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:23 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Hen cape - what color would call this?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7427
Re: Hen cape - what color would call this?
How about light furnace? Light furnace and Greenwell are the names I've seen to describe capes like that. Light furnace is the cape that was used by James Wright to tie Greenwells Glory for Canon Greenwell, or so I have been told. After the success of that fly, the fly was named Greenwells Glory an...