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- Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: CDL winged soft hackle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4587
Re: CDL winged soft hackle
Bill, what my poor camera work doesn't show is the black thread bodies on the little stones...Brown would be good for sure...
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: CDL winged soft hackle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4587
CDL winged soft hackle
Last summer I watched Old Hat working on a new pattern that utilized a Cog de Leon wing and hackle. I don't know what he was attempting to create and got the impression it was a work in progress. I took a stab at it and it made me think of a couple applications. It might be a small caddis, a midge e...
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: North Country spider article
- Replies: 122
- Views: 34765
Re: North Country spider article
This has been one of the most entertaining and interesting discussion I've found on the forum. My first born is an editor and has worked for publishers such as Bloomsbury and Chronicle Books, as well as free lance. Though most of her work was in fiction, she often commented about types of writers, a...
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:25 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: North Country spider article
- Replies: 122
- Views: 34765
Re: North Country spider article
I've recently, thanks to a friend with an extensive library, been pouring over as much of the old literature as I can. For myself, it only provides interesting background in to the subject of the flies I've learned to tie and love to fish with. I appreciate the research given to the history and atte...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:37 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: New member intro
- Replies: 57
- Views: 31405
Re: New member intro
nowadays it probably includes Oskar Blues...fine craft brewery...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: My attempt at Stewarts Black Spider
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9027
Re: My attempt at Stewarts Black Spider
Welcome to the gang fishnkilts... I love the Stewart's Spider. I have fished it a lot on the Metolius and Crooked Rivers here in OR. It is particularly effective in the summer and early fall on the Metolius in super clear and shallow riffles. Hope you enjoy the forum as much as I have in the last ye...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:29 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Smurf Emerger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1780
Re: Smurf Emerger
nice Bill...you have any more patterns by Smurf... he's such a good guy...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:27 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Bug Gut Caddis
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4688
Re: Bug Gut Caddis
those are just spectacular... I may have to get some of that gut....
- Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:14 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Catgut for bodies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5105
Re: Catgut for bodies
the Vladi worm was one of the first flies my original teacher taught us to tie... never used them however...but I understand the panfish like em...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Catgut for bodies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5105
Catgut for bodies
A friend is using medical catgut for nymph bodies... usually caddis pupa patterns... anyone had any experience with this stuff?