Search found 719 matches

by Mike62
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Partridge and Pearsall's ..........Pick a Color
Replies: 4
Views: 1106

Re: Partridge and Pearsall's ..........Pick a Color

I'm off work today for the Federal holiday. It was a brutal 2 degrees again here this AM in Central Oklahoma. Wanted to get some time at the vise, which lately has been far too infrequent, before watching our 13-year-old granddaughter play basketball this afternoon. I thought I would pull some feat...
by Mike62
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Polish Soft Hackles
Replies: 3
Views: 998

Re: Polish Soft Hackles

I'm seriously looking forward to a 'stream report' from that box!
by Mike62
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Fish Hawk
Replies: 3
Views: 1315

Re: Fish Hawk

You know, Norm, if you keep working at this fly tying thing you might just get good at it some day.

...that fly actually looks like a 'fly of prey', diving at speed towards and unsuspecting fish.
by Mike62
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Polish HS Bead Head
Replies: 1
Views: 772

Re: Polish HS Bead Head

I can make this pattern work over on the Little Madawaska; consider it stolen.
by Mike62
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Replies: 19
Views: 3000

Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

That same spirit of generosity always came through in his emails and the notes he would send up. I never got to meet him in person; the closest thing was a phone call we shared a few years ago. I still wander back through his site all the time!
by Mike62
Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Replies: 19
Views: 3000

Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

Doug, it would be an honor to take your ties to the waters of northern Maine. I had the great privilege of being a guinea pig for some of Alan Petrucci's ties (BrkTrt). He would tie something weird and send it up, asking me to give it a try on pure brookie water. Swinging your flies through the same...
by Mike62
Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)
Replies: 19
Views: 3000

Re: Dressed For Success (another glympse inside Doug's Fly Box)

Hi again Guys! Mike62 - Thanks Mike! Do you suppose some brookies or browns or 'bows in your neck of the Maine woods would appreciate them? Doug in the Den Well, I know the brookies would certainly appreciate them. As for those other two species you mentioned, the bows and the browns, they don't ex...
by Mike62
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Kinross
Replies: 2
Views: 524

Re: Kinross

First I've seen of this one; I like it.
by Mike62
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Silver Invicta
Replies: 2
Views: 514

Re: Silver Invicta

Racy! Beautiful, Norm.
by Mike62
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Golden Rod
Replies: 7
Views: 1050

Re: Golden Rod

Seal dubbing sucks! I like the Bergman version.