Joyce
What fly do you intend to tie ?
Herl bodies often start at the barb and silk/quill bodies ofton start at the
point.
Roger Fogg - A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies shows a general starting
point between point and barb.
Roger Wooleys flies from the 1930's are started past the
Me: That's the sh***y thing with living overseas. Others get their DVD's
after a couple of days... while I have to wait and read about it. It's like
being a child after Christmas, hearing all about the cool presents your
friends got... while you aren't allowed to open your own until New Year's
MeddelandeI see Nick is slacking off on his medications.
You need professional help, my friend.
You are the one that missed the personal tutoring offer
when you met up with DonO at the Sowbug a few years ago.
But Noo, you had to get loaded up on root-beer floats
instead. Now you'll just
The joy of owning fine tackle is so great that it is often difficult to
distinguish between basic needs and the urge to possess that which delights the
sensitivities. I have preached against indulgence, but in truth I am a
sentimental moron when it comes to fishing tackle. How can one find
Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to see. Do you leave a tag of the tying
silk at the back, to become the rib, or do you start at the eye of the hook,
go back to the body point between the barb and point of the fly, then wind
forward and then go back to the end of the body and using the single
Thanks. That's what I needed to know. Joyce
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Hans Weilenmann
hans.weilenm...@gmail.comwrote:
Joyce,
The recipe shows the order.
Tie in hackle at eye, touching turns of silk towards bend. Untwist and
split silk, insert a tiny amount of dubbing, and re-twist
Hans,
Can you email me off-list with your email addy?
What i am using keeps bouncing.
dordes at bresnan dot net
Don
- Original Message -
From: Hans Weilenmann hans.weilenm...@gmail.com
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] re: help
Joe, what issue, the latest I received was the Autumn issue.
George
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From: Joseph Fusco, Sr. [mailto:jfusc...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 20:49
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [VFB] re: help with spider type flies
Joyce -
The latest FLY TYER magazine
I've been debating whether to go with a Voljic-Moser hybrid Caddis dry or go
with a minimally modified version of the Klinkhammer, what I term a
Minkhammer...
the later won out, so I'm tying up a bunch of size 12 minkhammers with a
beige to tups-pink mink FUR for the fly's body and freshly
