This is taken from an inteview found here: http://www.flytyer.com/index.php?Itemid=91&id=891&option=com_content&task=view “We discovered that with flies tied on hooks with down-turned eyes, especially regular wet-fly and nymph hooks, that the flies drift through the water correctly as lo...

Who's got the Cookshill's website url??????????????? :D actually i think i may already have a Golden Plover skin...........lol.....lol...i'll have to look around............i still need the url though. :lol: http://www.cookshill-flytying.co.uk/ You always "need" more....or, maybe, want mo...

wayneb wrote:Hi daringduffer;

Thanks for the link, the tups recipie is great and all the other information at that site is top notch too!

Thanks again;

Wayne

Wayneb remember that it is bill bailey you have to thank for this. me? I just wanted to spread the word


dd

Ruard wrote:DD,

My imagination comes to short, I really need a picture!!

Greeting

Ruard,

When you tie this fly, and take a picture of it, please notice that I have edited the initial post. It was claret not crimson.

dd

Bill Bailey pointed me to this site http://www.flyleaves.dk/tup%27s_indispensable.htm which I should have found by myself years ago. The spaniel fur in the photo looks almost exactly the same colour as my opossum under-fur. No need to look for that dog any more...

dd

I feel the urge to share tonights tying on this dying site. I will do it in the way they did it twohundred years ago. When they posted their patterns in those days they did not include even a black-and-white photo. Their internet servers could not handle those. Mustad 3366 sz 18 Crimson Sheer 14/0 B...

chase creek wrote:
Anything Hare's Ear just makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside...

Thats how I feel exactly!

dd

dd, My flies never look better than when slimed up - by fish, not drool, that is 8-) Cheers, Hans W That surely must be in the eye of the beholder! When tying as many flies that you do, is it really possible to slime all of them - the proper way, I mean? (Every time I tie a fly I feel sorry for the...

When you tie those beautiful, delicate flies you don't want them to get slimed by the fish - do you?












Am I kidding - or what?

dd

I'm intrigued by Tenkara and eventually will get a rod.

What puzzled me when trying to read your post while my wife was talking to me was the passage about Misako being over 400 years old. I had to re-read and then found out what had happened. I'm lousy at multi-tasking...

dd