Ron Eagle Elk wrote:I use the brown a lot too, well waxed for black spiders.

How did I forget that one?

Silver Doctor wrote:Curious what colors of Pearsall's Gossamer Thread would be a good start for tying fishing wets. Perhaps Primrose Yellow, Orange and ?

Purple, green, claret. At least they're colors I use the most.

Soft-hackle wrote:Gosh, that stuff looks great as a body. Like quill.

Mark

I thought exactly the same thing.

I noticed as I was grocery shopping this evening that Safeway has a number of fruits bagged in the woven mesh as well.

Liam wrote: I call it the "Crappy Day Irish May" because today is a really crappy, dull day in central Maryland and I think this color scheme would be great.

I, on the other hand, was inspired by the crappy day to tie streamers for crappie.

You had the better idea. Nice tie.

RnF wrote:This is my favorite fruit bag softy so far, beautiful!

Mine, too!

See also the site of Donald: http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page2.html That's similar to the chart I had been using, except that there were a few more rows, and no explanation of what "Model Perfect" was. I had no idea of which row actually corresponded to "modern". (Other...

I've been wondering this for some time: how do you separate the strands? At least in the ones I have (and assume are more or less the same as in Europe) the distance between nodes in the netting isn't long enough to tie with, at least in my hands, and the nodes are "welded" together.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. If I'd remembered it was in Nemes, I coulda looked it up. Interestingly enough the gauge used on the left in Pritt's time was called "New", while the modern one on the right was called "Old". I'm aware of that. I've been somewhat under the ...

Does anyone have a handy chart with approximate conversions from what (for example) Pritt meant by a "size 0" to todays sizes. I know that there was a "new" system introduced sometime in the latter 19th century and subsequently abandoned. I also know that Andrew Herd showed a hoo...