GREAT post, PhilA........Love the picture with the pup. My dog used to do the same thing, and even make the same face when I caught her going through my pelts to play with.
“Mans best friend, in mans best pastime” - What could be better?
Bad dog:

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letumgo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 3:36 pm I drove past a perfectly good dead skunk last week, and did not stop to take it home for skinning/tying. I still regret it.

So yeah, I'm still in the collecting phase...

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I drove past a perfectly good dead skunk last week, and did not stop to take it home for skinning/tying. I still regret it. :cry: So yeah, I'm still in the collecting phase... :twisted: Rule 16b: Never, EVER pass up a good roadkill :D fwiw, 16a is: “Never pass up a good fly shop, or yard sale when ...

At 60, I’m still in the “need more crap” phase...

SO, Send everything to Theroe!

Very nice – I can’t wait to see the results of this search!

Esteemed Forum Ghillie:
Will this shade work for you??

Speaking of color matches, the not-so-famous color No.32 (Classic Chestnut) is a pretty good match when wet to the elusive color No.6B (Sherry Spinner). https://i.imgur.com/uVukffO.jpg But wait! There's more! Classic Chestnut is available right now (2/16/2020) at Jim Slattery's fly shop. https://ji...

And now I need a barred dun... :mrgreen: Those are all very useful colors. Ray - did you not get a bag of the “doc fried soft hackle” last time we were together? That material is not only rare, it catches fish very well....... rumor has it that the fellow who had that material might be at the next ...

Very nice - all of those will work !!

What I think I know of the mysteries surrounding Berners comes from McDonald as well. There was also a paper put out by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville entitled "A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and the Secular in the Book of St.Albans" by Allison Treese. https://scholarwor...