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Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 4:42 am
by wsbailey

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:08 am
by narcodog
I never knew about eating tar but my grandfather used a bar of tar shampoo to wash his hair.

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 1:59 pm
by UC Steve
narcodog wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:08 am I never knew about eating tar but my grandfather used a bar of tar shampoo to wash his hair.
Now we're really going off the edge: working ingredient in Head & Shoulders is extracted from tar.

BTW, love the beer quote. 8-)

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:12 pm
by daringduffer
UC Steve wrote: Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:21 pm .... Looks like everything though. Orange silk could make a March Brown; claret silk, a passable Iron or Iso; tan or yellow silk, a Hendrickson...
I love it, "Iron Blue Sinixt", people will scratch their heads when you tell them what you are catching on. You can change the silk or the dubbing or the hackle or...
Perfect!

I am going to tie an "Altered Light Sinixt". It will become a modern "Usual". :o

dd

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:31 am
by UC Steve
daringduffer wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:12 pm
UC Steve wrote: Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:21 pm .... Looks like everything though. Orange silk could make a March Brown; claret silk, a passable Iron or Iso; tan or yellow silk, a Hendrickson...
I am going to tie an "Altered Light Sinixt". It will become a modern "Usual". :o

dd
Yup. The 'Usual'. 'At's what I was afraid of. Far too much compression. ;)

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:46 pm
by Bazzer69
UC Steve wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 2:24 am
Old Hat wrote: Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:31 pm Reminds me of a wingless Devils Crook. Beautiful fly.

My mother grew up in Pittsfield, MA. She just told us how as kids they would follow the tar trucks and chew on the tar. Seems Spruce gum would have been a better choice.
Thanks Carl. Yes, it does look like a Devils Cruik, & would probably fish for it.

Wow. My mom was a tar chewer as well. Haven't tried it though -- I guess it's the acquired taste of those who walked, shoeless, 6 miles to school in blinding snow. Our elders were tough people & black licorice was an expensive luxury.
I was born many moons ago in Portsmouth England. It was a poor navy dockyard city. On my way home from school if there was roadworks going on I’d grab a piece of tar to chew. It was real tar those days not the byproduct of oil refiners. I really liked it!
Bazza

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:50 pm
by Bazzer69
I had a Finnish girlfriend once, I always knew they were a strange race

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:04 pm
by wsbailey
Samuel Adams makes a smoked lager which I like. When I cook down pine tar to make pitch it smells like a campfire. I think I should try some peaty wisky.

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:56 pm
by daringduffer
Try Laphroaig!

dd

Re: Dark Sinixt

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:23 pm
by Bazzer69
daringduffer wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:56 pm Try Laphroaig!

dd
Stephan, that’s the only scotch I drink, but I can only afford the ten years old cask.
B