Re: Frank Sawyer's Nymphs
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:27 pm
Bumping an old thread. I just love Mr.Sawyer! I love his simple and straight to the point approach. I've been on a real sawyer kick recently and have cross referenced several books reading all of his writings but it more or less all the same. I have a few questions I was hoping some of you experts could answer for me.
First...what is the difference between the gray goose and the Swedish? The old pictures in books are terrible and he doesn't give any dressing info in any of the books I have. Modern tyers that happen to own his flies only ever show the big 3 so I'm kind of at a loss.
Second...how does the bow tie buzzer work? I get how it woul work if you had a tight line or were drawing in line slowly and it's a really awesome and innovative idea! Bu if it's supposed to hang an inch or 2 below the surface wouldn't the buzzer separate from the hanging bowtie and slide down your tippet?
Third....is Sawyers book worth buying? I'm building a library and I'm usually able to buy used copies of all the great old books for under 10 bucks. That's kind of my salary cap. Sawyers book is usually around twice that. I don't mind paying more if I know the book will be really good but I've noticed in all my other books that sawyer has a chapter in its always the same content with maybe Slightly different wording. I don't want to buy it if it's just the same stuff I have in multiple other books.
First...what is the difference between the gray goose and the Swedish? The old pictures in books are terrible and he doesn't give any dressing info in any of the books I have. Modern tyers that happen to own his flies only ever show the big 3 so I'm kind of at a loss.
Second...how does the bow tie buzzer work? I get how it woul work if you had a tight line or were drawing in line slowly and it's a really awesome and innovative idea! Bu if it's supposed to hang an inch or 2 below the surface wouldn't the buzzer separate from the hanging bowtie and slide down your tippet?
Third....is Sawyers book worth buying? I'm building a library and I'm usually able to buy used copies of all the great old books for under 10 bucks. That's kind of my salary cap. Sawyers book is usually around twice that. I don't mind paying more if I know the book will be really good but I've noticed in all my other books that sawyer has a chapter in its always the same content with maybe Slightly different wording. I don't want to buy it if it's just the same stuff I have in multiple other books.