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Condor

Soft hackle

Body - Condor quill barb*
Hackle - Starling

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

*I used actual condor quill barb but gray goose or swan are acceptable substitutes. Back in the 1980's it was readily available.

I’ll have to stick with the substitute stuff.

What a rare treat to see the real deal. Thanks for sharing Norm.

I still have a small section of Condor quill. I’ll never use it now..

Johnno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:56 pm I still have a small section of Condor quill. I’ll never use it now..

Back in February of 2019 a group of Flymphers gathered at a row of tables at Fly Fest in livingston Manor.
Therow was tying with condor on some of his vintage hooks and he gave me a small section of quill and a
fly or two. Bill Shuck was there and also gave me a few of his amazing ties which turned out to be some of
the last he would tie. Those flies and the condor quill are now in a special "collector box" with my
Darbee, Dette, Gartside, and Betters stuff that I didn't fish.

Nice tie Norm and thanks for the memory.

my remaining supply

i bought this way back in the 1980's from anglers all in littleton, colorado

i think the tag on the package was 85 cents