letumgo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:23 am Bumping an old post, which discusses the use of wool yarn for dubbing.

(Mike Valla's Tups Wool Dubbing Blend)

Ray, is Mike Vallas blend different than yours?
By the way I still have a little Tups orginal formula dubbing if anyone would like some. ( free of course )
Barry

Tim, if you need any hard to get materials gIve me a try. I’ve been helped by many members of the forum myself in the past and I am happy to pass it on if I can.
Barry

Great looking flies. Do you fish them with a Tenkara outfit?
Barry

chase creek wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:45 am I think the Partridge & Orange and Stewart's Black Spider, although I don't keep records of such things. Both are older patterns that work very well.

+1 on these two patterns, I believe it’s not so much the pattern but how it’s fished.
Barry

A great looking ruffle pattern. Is there a recipe for it?
B

I find the comments very interesting, I hope others do to. Hi-sticking is undoubtably a deadly method of fishing, in the right hands. It takes a great deal of skill to see the subtle takes but since it requires no casting, just lobbing the leader and flies I can’t see how it can be defined as fly fi...

I found out a few days ago, on this forum, that what I have called flymphs for four decades are not simply because I have never used Pearsall's silk I believe that a flymph is a style of dressing and doesn’t have to be any particular materials. Although I use silk for mine I don’t believe that it’s ...

Howdy All; I was trying to inject some levity earlier. Reckon it didn't take. So, I'll try this, Bazzer69, you come across as frustrated that Nymphs are being discussed and tolerated as well as ways to fish them. But really, ... isn't a nymph only a younger Mayfly? Bazzerhttps://www.britannica.com/...

With 20ft leaders and no fly line out the rod tip how can this be called fly fishing? Ted Fay and his Bomber Fly’s of the seventies used this method and back then it was called “high sticking “. A lot of fly fishermen back then also dismissed it as “not fly fishing”. Dynamite also catches lots of f...

With 20ft leaders and no fly line out the rod tip how can this be called fly fishing? Ted Fay and his Bomber Fly’s of the seventies used this method and back then it was called “high sticking “. A lot of fly fishermen back then also dismissed it as “not fly fishing”. Dynamite also catches lots of fi...