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- Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:37 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Clark's Spinning Block vs The Dubber
- Replies: 70
- Views: 205529
Re: Clark's Spinning Block vs The Dubber
The video currently has more dislikes than likes but it does show how to use it..
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:41 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Quill-slip wings vs. Dabbler-type wings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4378
Re: Quill-slip wings vs. Dabbler-type wings
Davie McPhail has almost 700 fly tying videos on YouTube. He covers nearly any type of fly you can imagine.
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:12 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Spring Black, Little Black
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4340
Re: Spring Black, Little Black
Also, the alula feather for tenkara flies.
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:12 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
- Topic: Quill-slip wings vs. Dabbler-type wings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4378
Re: Quill-slip wings vs. Dabbler-type wings
In his book "Wet Flies" Dave Hughes talks about both types. Roger Fogg, in his excellent book "A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies" writes that the rolled wing goes back to the eighteenth century and continued to be used until the First World War.
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:27 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tying Question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6041
Re: Tying Question
If you look at this book you can zoom in on each fly pictured. Maybe not as good as a photograph but it is original.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ite ... 9/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ite ... 9/mode/1up
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tying Question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6041
Re: Tying Question
Fly tying goes back to at least 1496 and after so much time the meaning of words can change. Dub originally meant dress. In the US we are fly tyers but in England they call themselves fly dressers. The modern meaning of dub wouldn't make sense with regard to herl. Dun is another subject that can be ...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tying Question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6041
Re: Tying Question
A lot of Pritt's are dubbed with herl - peacock, magpie and heron etc.
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 11:04 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tying Question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6041
Re: Tyinng Question
From "A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle" These are the 12 flies with which you shall angle for trout and grayling. You shall dub them as follows. (dress) The black leaper. the body of black wool and lapped about with the herl of the peacock tail: and the wings of the red capon with a blu...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 9:01 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tying Question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6041
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:13 am
- Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
- Topic: Donald Nicholson's Wet Fly Compendium
- Replies: 34
- Views: 70709
Re: Donald Nicholson's Wet Fly Compendium
Thanks Ray for bumping this up!