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willowhead wrote:Kelly...................you lie.............you DID need to see those............ .....

Bill, FANTASTIC!!!!!

Ray, i'm sure you must already know.....but Charlie Collins has been makin' that deal for tyers for years.......one of the best buys in hackle ever has been.

I sent an email inquiring on cost and availability on the 13th...still no answer.

13th of Nov.? Heck that's only week ago........"all good things...............wait." .....lotta these old timers aint to computer savy......... and don't forget, your email may have went to his "Junk" box..........if i didn't know ya, and you sent me an email........that's exactly where it would go......
.....i'll see him at Somerset in Jan., if you still havin' problems.......i'll give 'em your info. Charlie is a very pleasent person and good to work with.

I received the flies yesterday, which accompanied me to the organizing meeting in Pasadena, CA. I also took along 2 rods (TFO, Orvis, Wright/McGill), 2 reels (Montana fly company & Allen fly company) and about 200 other flies. The one item that keep getting the comments were the Orange and Greenwell. Thank you so very much.

willowhead wrote:13th of Nov.? Heck that's only week ago........"all good things...............wait." .....lotta these old timers aint to computer savy......... and don't forget, your email may have went to his "Junk" box..........if i didn't know ya, and you sent me an email........that's exactly where it would go......
.....i'll see him at Somerset in Jan., if you still havin' problems.......i'll give 'em your info. Charlie is a very pleasent person and good to work with.

Alright then. Thank you again Mark!

Kelly ~ I'm certain that Charlie is exhibiting at the Fly Tying Symposium in Somerset, NJ this weekend and may well have been very busy getting ready for last several days. I think he runs pretty much of a one man show with his business, and will get around to your e-mail sooner or later. I'm pretty sure that his website (Google "Collins Hackle Farm") shows pricing somewhere if you navigate around it a bit. From my personal experience, buying both directly from him at a show or through a distributor such as Great Feathers, his prices are extremely reasonable (less than $30 for a set that includes both saddle and cape).

Ah, thank you. Appreciate the heads up on that!
Kelly

Looked at the streamer site and was curious. Do you guys really fish those flies or are they art pieces, just to me they are art and would ever see the water.

fflutterffly wrote:Looked at the streamer site and was curious. Do you guys really fish those flies or are they art pieces, just to me they are art and would ever see the water.

I was thinking the same thing..... The Streamers on that site make my Bunny Leaches look like blood sucking worms...

I am always happy to participate in a thread hijacking!

Ariel - Almost every streamer I tye is intended to be fished. The few exception are tyed with very rare feathers (Bali Duck Feathers/aka - baikal teal/yanosh) for instance http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern4462.html), or a few that were intended to be framed from the start (http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern4528.html or http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern6836.html). The rest get lumped into my fly boxes and eventually go for a swim. I enjoy seeing how the flies behave in the water. I've had a few patterns that took many field tests to get the fly to swim correctly (bucktails for instance). All part of the fun.

Ariel, all the flies i have at that site will never be fished.......but i feel 99% of the flies on that site WILL be. That's what they're tyed for. That doesn't always mean they will be cast.....many are just trolled.....on still water, behind a boat. The bigger and heavier they are.....the more likely they will be trolled and not cast. But fishin's fishin'.