Awesome work Doug - that pattern will imitate many many different things !
Dana

Nice color, John - I don’t think it’s TOO Bright .......in the PARTS of the Delaware and Beaverkill, that is the correct color for rhyacophilia.....

bearbutt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 6:15 pm

Theroe wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 5:35 pm
The mink(As are most mustelids) is a nasty, vicious critter....

........... nasty creatures, they deserve to be made into coats."

bb

Update, got the rest of the story. Apparently, the father of one of my employees has been losing a chickens and ducks for a week or so. He figured it was a coon so set a few leg hold traps around the pen. The other night, he heard a commotion in the pen and went out side to see what was going on. O...

hmmmm
maybe we will have to do "show & tell" at lunch next week...


That 57552 is a good NC spider hook, too

Believe it or not-Swix works as good as any of the ones I’ve purchased, or made for that matter!

Speaking of wax, again: The very first wax I was ever introduced to for fly tying was over in Europe around 1980. A guy in Norway gave me the container in this photo:

Interesting point-thanks Bill. I have noticed that occasionally there are soft spots in the spools that I do have of other manufacturers.
Thanks !!
Dana

I love how spellcheck changes words after the fact

That’s a very good point, Bob. Yet I wonder: why the others brands of vintage black silk in my possession are NOT fragile? Herters, Gudebrod, Champion, Belding-Corticelli, Reed Tackle - all fine. I have come across the occasional sport in all colors that is weak, or has weak spots. Does anyone have ...