Mike!
Thanks for posting these words!.. No horn blowing there; simply what so many need to hear but will sit there and squeeze their buttocks together with reading it!
Love your "straight out" words. I feel grounded in realizing how much I have to learn!
FliTrap
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- Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Soft Wing Success
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5850
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:52 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Spanish Wets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5606
Re: Spanish Wets
Old Hat! Thanks for bring this to the board! I have seen pics a time or two with this! Just in looks, I would guess that this style of fly would hold its hackle shape a bit better in the swing of fast water, not otherwise collapsing around the body! The slim profile should carry deeper in the upper ...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:48 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: dubbing brush experiment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6789
Re: dubbing brush experiment
If it Swims in Missouri water, I have caught nearly all on wet flies! Some of the best fishing beyond Trout is Crappie, Bluegill, all of the bass, including hybrid strippers! Its an 8wt and size 1/0 hook type adventure but great times for sure! The fun of wingless wet flies has even brought me a few...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:58 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Soft Hackle Patterns
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3958
Re: Soft Hackle Patterns
Here is a good reference for some of the flies, noted, including the Greenwell's as detailed in Edmonds & Lee - that is with split wings.
http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/edmond ... tterns.htm
Have Fun!
FliTrap
http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/edmond ... tterns.htm
Have Fun!
FliTrap
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:10 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dash O' Lime
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1400
Re: Dash O' Lime
Hans! Still again, I see wealth in the method you present, using the same materials (thread + dubbing) as first a rib, then more intensely as the thorax! Keeping it simple with materials and presentation! Though, the detail seen through your photography, carries it through with "spot on" f...
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:45 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Bright Spider
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1721
Re: Bright Spider
Hans!
Great use of materials to bring out the detail you were looking for!
So, how many ways can you spin a spider web? LOL
FliTrap
Great use of materials to bring out the detail you were looking for!
So, how many ways can you spin a spider web? LOL
FliTrap
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:22 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: "I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21514
Re: "I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
Again, I have to say... the education continues! Thanks for the links. The information is so useful and if not shared in this manner, I most likely would have never found it on my own! I'll be playing with yet more and different ways to develop my fly tying! And by the way, the rest of that book ref...
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:40 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: "I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21514
Re: "I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
Now, I'm laughing, for I live in the "Show Me State"! Really, though, you all did a fine job to explain a process for which I have no experience! In all my tying, I work with either the dubbing loop method or one of several "touch dubbing methods", including a method of applying ...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:44 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: "I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21514
"I dubbed Leisenring fashion"
Can any one provide some explanation of this method of dubbing?
I's see it note a few times and wondering the method and benefit!
Thank, in advance!
FliTrap
I's see it note a few times and wondering the method and benefit!
Thank, in advance!
FliTrap
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:10 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Plain Silk Body's
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11254
Re: Plain Silk Body's
Mike! Great reading your words! So many with whom I have fished with, or simply near, can be observed fighting what comes natural to others! I truly agree that there are days; sometimes only moments, that 'the click' happens; all comes together. The true magic is realizing the parts of the whole! Kn...