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- Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:59 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Heritage Tying
- Replies: 10
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Re: Heritage Tying
OH, you could have use a clothes pin as your thread weight as that's how i learned as a kid. Just had a brain activity (opposite of a fart) thought and wondered if hungarian partridge was being used at all for hackle back in the 50's-60's. I tied back then on the east coast and all I remember then ...
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:53 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Bobbin Holder Question and Vintage wax
- Replies: 11
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Re: Bobbin Holder Question and Vintage wax
Interesting. It does look like it might fit the spools.Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:27 am Bobbin holder looks like an early Nor-Bobbin from Nor-Vise. Looks exactly like my newer ones, without the clutch assembly, The newer ones also have a longer, ceramic tube.
Nice finds.
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:58 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Bobbin Holder Question and Vintage wax
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5698
Bobbin Holder Question and Vintage wax
Going through old stuff. Going through some old vises I have. In one of the boxes was this wax and bobbin holder. The wax was hard as a rock. I've had it probably 20+ years and never used it. Figured it was bad. Looks like it was for waxing large quantities of thread by the instructions on the tin. ...
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:45 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Heritage Tying
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5246
Heritage Tying
Spent part of the day tying old school. Started out making dubbing ropes Leisenring style on my knee. It is a pretty quick process once you get it down. There is like 3-4 pages devoted to it in ATWF with very descriptive details. I pulled out a remnant vise from my collection of Thompson vises, a Sp...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:11 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: $3 Dip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6052
Re: $3 Dip
You can see my version in the Shop. Just skip down towards the bottom.
https://www.oldhatflytying.com/fly-shop.html
https://www.oldhatflytying.com/fly-shop.html
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:59 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: $3 Dip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6052
Re: $3 Dip
Thanks Carl, now you have me combing some AL's Rug Yarn to make some more! ;) :lol: I never bought Lee's book on tying with poly but watched him tie several times. What size 16's &18's? I will make some for Ron as well, I hope to be over there next week. Bill you are just in time for things to ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:57 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: $3 Dip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6052
Re: $3 Dip
Thanks Carl, now you have me combing some AL's Rug Yarn to make some more! ;) :lol: I never bought Lee's book on tying with poly but watched him tie several times. What size 16's &18's? I will make some for Ron as well, I hope to be over there next week. Yeah, #16's and #18's. I twist the yarn ...
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:38 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: hook question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26567
Re: hook question
For larger wets (#10 and up) with a wing and fished on the swing the fly will orient itself in a more parallel to the waters surface. Hence why many steelhead and salmon flies are on an up eye hook. Bulk of the fly and water velocity play a role. I'm not sure about smaller sizes or wingless wets. Fi...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:32 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: $3 Dip
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6052
Re: $3 Dip
Those are superb Bill.
One of my favorites and an absolute killer on the Crooked. I tie mine, no rib and with Clark's Stonefly yarn in a variegated rust color.
One of my favorites and an absolute killer on the Crooked. I tie mine, no rib and with Clark's Stonefly yarn in a variegated rust color.
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:21 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Yak Hair Spider
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3021