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Breadcrust

Post by letumgo » Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:39 am

One of Dana Reed's wingless wet flies - The quill has a gorgeous deep cherry red cast

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Dana - Would you mind posting the recipe for this fly?
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Re: Breadcrust

Post by daringduffer » Wed Oct 17, 2018 12:35 pm

That fly looks both old and serious!

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Re: Breadcrust

Post by Trifly » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:55 pm

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox ... C09685.JPG

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox ... arentID=86

Great fly on the Freestone Rivers like the Arkansas and Roaring Fork rivers.....Colorado

The downfall is all the prep work it takes to properly tie this pattern.
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Re: Breadcrust

Post by Trifly » Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:35 pm

Havent had a response in my past ten posts. Keep the record going folks. Keep wondering why your forum struggles.
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Re: Breadcrust

Post by letumgo » Wed Oct 17, 2018 10:06 pm

Thank you for posting the links and photo. A perfect cased caddis imitation.

Have you fished this pattern? Can you comment on the durability?
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Re: Breadcrust

Post by hankaye » Wed Oct 17, 2018 10:19 pm

Trifly, Howdy;
Trifly wrote: Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:35 pm Havent had a response in my past ten posts. Keep the record going folks. Keep wondering why your forum struggles.
Not everyone gets a response for every post they put in here. Sad but true.
I've been on here a little over 8 years and have had hundreds of posts either
ignored or left to die on the delivery room floor. So what??? Your "squeaky Wheel"
Post just got ya 2 replies. Ray (letumgo), was nice and thanked you for the link and
was nice enough to ask you a few questions.

Ok, I looked at your most recent postings and from what I can see you've made general
comments to on going conversations and nothing that would, in regular conversation, be
acknowledged with anything other than a nod or a grunt. So, why the upset tone in your
post quoted above??? Unhappy that the Dodgers won today?

So, Happy to have ya posting again, you were quiet for a long time and only started posting
again this past Jan. Always good to see one return to the conversations.

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Re: Breadcrust

Post by Theroe » Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:21 am

Trifly wrote: Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:35 pm Havent had a response in my past ten posts. Keep the record going folks. Keep wondering why your forum struggles.
Trifly - thats the fella, Ed Rolka. Thanks for posting that link.
Regarding the lack of "post responses": Speaking for myself, I don't have much time during the week to get deeply involved here - I would never get any work done in my office! Maybe a better barometer is the "views"......you DID get over 40!

Thanks for posting!

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Re: Breadcrust

Post by Theroe » Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:00 am

A bit more about the Breadcrust -

I believe Ed Rolka was from Eastern Pennsylvania, where this pattern originated. It was/is a mainstay locally, especially on the Lackawaxen and Broadheads. Originally, the pattern was rough rusty wool, over wrapped with a dyed brown-red condor herl. Touching turns were NOT used; the idea was to let some of the wool strands peek out. Two or three turns of Plymouth Rock hackle finished the fly. In the photo below, there is a breadcrust (and other flies) given to me by Vince Marinaro, but thats a whole other story. Up to that day on the Letort, I had TWO flies: an Adams and a Ginger Quill, both size #14 - if one didn't work, I put on the other!!!!
Vince & Co must have felt sorry for me after I showed them what i was trying to use....
When I was younger, I was absolutely smitten with this fly pattern, the condor quill, and its legendary performance.
More later....
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Re: Breadcrust

Post by hankaye » Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:30 am

Howdy All;

Did a quick google and found this;
https://www.allstatescremation.com/obit ... d-f-rolka/

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Re: Breadcrust

Post by letumgo » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:00 pm

Dana,

Your post and photo captures a bit of fly fishing history, in a personal way. I look forward to reading more background, when your schedule allows. I just wish I could sit across the table and listen to you tell the story, of meeting VM. How cool is that!

I recognize a couple other patterns in the flies shown in the photo (i.e. - ant, jasid,and possibly a march brown dry). I am delighted to see a couple wingless wet flies are included in the mix. John Shaner showed me a framed set of VM wet flies, which he owns. I was floored the first time I saw the set, since in my mind I had always associated VM with dry flies. Goes to show how little I know.

Anyway, I enjoy this sort of surprise tangent. Hope to read more in the future.
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