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by joaniebo
Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:31 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Pritts Greentail
Replies: 11
Views: 2025

Re: Pritts Greentail

You beat me to it! I'm just finishing the last 2 of 18 to add to my fly boxes. I found it a little difficult to tie in the green and grey threads at the same time, so I started the green silk about a third way down the hook shank and then back up to where I started. Did a couple turns of a whip fini...
by joaniebo
Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:47 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”
Replies: 13
Views: 2037

Re: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”

NightWatchman wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:12 pm Wow nice bunch of “Crickets” I hope they don’t keep you up and night. 🤓 Looking forward to
seeing more of your flies joaniebo.
No problem, I'm a sound sleeper!
by joaniebo
Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:56 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”
Replies: 13
Views: 2037

Re: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”

As usual, Rob Smith has a great video on his tying of Pritt's Water Cricket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOQkL_DLdT0&t=381s Yes thank you joaniebo a very good video ! I tied a few of Pritt's Water Cricket after watching Rob Smith's YouTube video and posted the following pic under a post of ...
by joaniebo
Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:12 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”
Replies: 13
Views: 2037

Re: Pritt’s “Water Cricket”

As usual, Rob Smith has a great video on his tying of Pritt's Water Cricket.

by joaniebo
Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:48 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle
Replies: 8
Views: 1854

Re: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle

letumgo wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:32 pm Jaimeson’s Spindrift has become an obsession with me. I use many different colors for fly patterns. The multi color blends are very nice. Just wish it was easier to get, here in The States.
Ray

I have a full skein. Let me know if you want any.

Bob
by joaniebo
Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:21 pm
Forum: Soft Hackle Materials
Topic: P & O. using Morus silk 6b
Replies: 12
Views: 3981

Re: P & O. using Morus silk 6b

Ken

I don't recall whether it was on this Forum or on the Classic Rod Forum, but there's several fly tiers that feel that the Java Brown and 6b silks both look very much alike when wet.

Bob
by joaniebo
Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:18 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle
Replies: 8
Views: 1854

Re: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle

David The reason I mentioned the red wire underbody and / or ribbing is that the popularity of the Shetland Spindrift #290 Oyster wool yarn probably originated for use as a replacement for the Chadwick's 477 yarn used by Frank Sawyer in tying his original Killer Bug. The #290 yarn then became popula...
by joaniebo
Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:37 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle
Replies: 8
Views: 1854

Re: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle

Although I've cut the Shetland Oyster wool into small pieces and made dubbing out of it, I've yet to tie many flies with it. I wonder how a Shetland Spindrift dubbed dressing would look with a red wire underbody and red thread?

Bob
by joaniebo
Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:13 am
Forum: Tutorials / Step-by-Steps / Video Demos
Topic: Custom Leaders - My next adventure
Replies: 53
Views: 40229

Re: Custom Leaders - My next adventure

Doug

Have been using Maxima Ultragreen for many years ... using Oliver Kite's leader formula (or as close as I can get to it) of 20# (54"), 12# (10"), 6# (10"), 5# (10") & 4# (36") as shown in his book "Nymph Fishing in Practice."

Bob
by joaniebo
Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:35 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Black Palmer 1839
Replies: 2
Views: 978

Re: Black Palmer 1839

I've tied and fished a Black Palmer for many years in several sizes, mostly in 14s and 16s, using peacock herl for the body and a black Whiting rooster saddle hackle, sometimes a black hen hackle. If I recall, both Oliver Kite and the Rev. Edward Powell both had similar dressings but they called it ...