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- Sat Mar 07, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Type of water
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4964
Re: Type of water
The hot action can be at the prime lies in the river. This is what I meant by fishing areas that actually hold fish. Most always fish in a stream will be near some structure or cover; structure gives them a resting place from the current and cover hides them from both prey and predators. Those long...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Type of water
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4964
Re: Type of water
Yes all the water can be fished with wet flies, including ponds, but I try to only fish areas that actually hold fish. I always catch more fish when I go slowly.
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:57 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dun and Dun
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4984
Re: Dun and Dun
The search results I got before asking what "4B hen feathers" are returned all sorts of results about decor and none about tying flies and some stuff about elevator parts; so thank you for suggesting I repeat that search. I now know just as much about your contribution as I care to. A repl...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dun and Dun
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4984
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Availability of Spider Materials Today
- Replies: 40
- Views: 22120
Re: Availability of Spider Materials Today
See, now I'm sorry that I found this forum. I'm 69 and have never actually seen or touched Pearsalls silk thread (or any silk thread); til now never felt there was any need to. Must be reasons that they quit using it? Now I find that I have 'missed the boat'. For over forty years I thought I was tyi...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dun and Dun
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4984
Re: Dun and Dun
Dun4B Hen feathers? Unknown to me.
Fly looks fishy.
Fly looks fishy.
- Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:42 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Availability of Spider Materials Today
- Replies: 40
- Views: 22120
Re: Availability of Spider Materials Today
Do you think that if nylon thread was invented in, say 1880, that Leisenring would have used it? I have always thought that the tyers of wet flies were pragmatists, using the feathers from their supper (or the laird's supper) and thread filched from the sewing basket. I have imagined that if they ha...
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:26 am
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Silica Gel for moisture control.....
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4896
Re: Silica Gel for moisture control.....
Silica gel is kinda like a sponge, once it is wet it has to be dried before it can hold any more water. I use it to dry my hearing aides, ~1/4 cup in a closed container, and about once a month it has to go into the micro wave and get dry again, many snows past when I was a young sailor we used bags ...
- Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:43 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Buckskin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4769
Re: Buckskin
I like the one you hackled, looks fishy. The material reminds me surgical gloves from the photo. The finished fly for some reason reminds me of some I saw done with colored UV goo.
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:05 pm
- Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
- Topic: Antron
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4508
Re: Antron
Wasn't Gary color blind?