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- 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...
- 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”
No problem, I'm a sound sleeper!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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Snipe & Spindrift soft hackle
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1854
- 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
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
- 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...
- 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
Bob
- 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
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
- 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 ...