I have a friend from Ireland who sent me several pattern recipes for some
traditional irish lough wets, and they call for Kamasan B175 hooks (size
12 to 8, if it matters). As my fly tying funds are going towards the
diaper funds currently, I can't get the specified hooks from across the
pond.
A rope-dubbed hackle, maybe on GSP or mono (not that you need them over any
other type of thread, but I just prefer to use the stronger things... call
me paranoid...) is a great caterpillar fly. I can't speak for what size
works for trout and bass, but the crappie and sunnies/panfish go for
Pete, Great to hear from you. Just wanted to let you know that Dr. Tom’s
surgery for TN was 100% successful.
Not a single gun-shot to the face since he fixed it- 3 years now.
Great to hear from you too, Don! That's Awesome - glad I could put you and
Tom together, especially with those
Just getting caught up after our daughter's birth 3/3. Yeah, it is taking
over a month to get caught up... anyhow...
I tried using the sewing thread racks but didn't care for them because of
the oddball spools like pearsalls and such, and i tie too many soft
hackles to go without the pearsalls
I'm actually the guy who requested a quill-slip dry fly demo from Tim, to
go along with my questions about the correct wings to use when tying the
Royal Coachman fly (from a few weeks past). I still have trouble with my
quill wings, but this demo gave some very useful tips. I particularly like
Hi Tony (and the VFB list) -
I have done some (not much, with the Thanksgiving holiday and travel)
with the bamboo rods, I'll send an email off-list for that once I can get
pictures going for the progress.
As for the quill wings, I used to try doing it as I saw Davie McPhail do
it... hard to
He really shows how to apply a hot spot nicely in this video. I've just
never heard of this Glo Brite floss stuff before now... and I can't think
of anything that I already have that is remotely like it. Guess I'm on a
quest to get some of the Glo Brite floss stuff. I think Veniard puts the
I have a free sample 100m spool from JStockard, of the 16/0 black, and it
is as if two smaller-diameter threads are twisted to form that 16/0. It is
a whole lot stronger for size than other midge-sized threads that I have
tried. (I can't say that the others are 16/0 or the same denier, but it is
So I have the day off and when I sat down at my vise to tie up 6 dozen
Royal Coachmen dry flies in various sizes to restock my nearly empty
flyboxes, I thought I knew the pattern by heart. Then I glanced over at
the Benchside Reference and on the cover is what looks to be a royal
coachman with
Just got back from 2 weeks on a lake in Maine for vacation - but I'm still
here.
-Pete
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I'm still here and still love my hackle collection. Though I don't know that
I've ever put them on my bed and rolled around in them... not on my bed...
;)
-Pete
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Everett Hall ehal...@live.com wrote:
I am still among the living and still kicking. Although
Been on med checks and such for other issues but happy to report all is as
well as it can be, sorry if I didn't update earlier, Wanted to set the
record straight that all is well and i just go for periodic CT scans and med
checks as for now. Sorry for a short email here but we're on vacation in
Thanks to all who replied - I have six people and will divvy the hooks up
between them and send from there.
Thanks for playing :)
-Pete
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Peter Gramp pete.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
So my 3-year old son found the hook boxes and decided he liked the rattle
sounds
So my 3-year old son found the hook boxes and decided he liked the rattle
sounds they made when he shook them vigorously... Said boxes were plano
tackle boxes lined with sheet magnets but they weren't air tight (or in this
case, hook- tight) So now I have done quite a bit of hook sorting and still
For me, I just wanted to tie to fish, and I saw 'aussie possum' and thought
it was something unique.
As for using cree vs grizzly and brown, I'll use a grizzly variant that;s as
close to cree as I can afford.
Like I said, I'm tying to throw, not for show. :)
-Pete
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM,
I'm wanting to tie up some ausable wulffs and need some Australian Opossum
for it. Does anyone either:
1.) Have some extra they would be willing to trade material for material
with me for? or
2.) Know of a US- based supplier where the material and shipping would total
under 10 bucks? (I'm married
...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hi Peter;
Are you looking for regular or bleached Austrailian Opossum? I looked up
the pattern thinking it called for american opossum but listed bleached(pure
white in photo) Austrailian opossum for abdomen.
Wayneb
--- On *Sun, 1/2/11, Peter Gramp pete.gr...@gmail.com
I'm here, back from the hospital for personal reasons, still resting
recouping, but getting back to normal. Had a i've been deprived of
tying, so I'm making up for lost time tying stint of a dozen or so generic
parachutes or klinkhammer takeoffs for about an hour or so, nothing to
write home
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Spezio bambot...@yahoo.com wrote:
Mart,
I have not heard of the Midge book. Who is the author, would it be
Takahasi'.
I have not heard of that name.
Tony
I'm not Mart, but I'll chip in my 2 cents:
It is called Modern Midges: Tying Fishing the
Just my curiosity getting the better of me:
What dubbing(s) would you say ARE tough to handle, why are they tough in
your mind, and (more importantly) how did you solve their
'tough-to-handle-ness'?
I was having some difficulty with mole fur, due to short fibers, but simply
using the palm of my
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
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, chuckalexan...@hughes.net wrote:
Folks: I have a BUNCH of rabbit strips. Can anybody give me any
recipes/patterns for panfish (bluegill) made of these strips?? Thanks, Chuck
For panfish (Pumpkinseeds, bluegills, even perch and the likes - some don't
consider
I'm asking off-list for obvious reasons... but (assuming PB stands for
plateaus better than arctic runner[?]), what is your source for PB?
-Pete
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mark Romero markflie...@hotmail.comwrote:
This one has a PB wing.again it's a Lucas Sr. hook, Noble D XXL
ok, maybe NOT off-list...
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Peter Gramp pete.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm asking off-list for obvious reasons... but (assuming PB stands for
plateaus better than arctic runner[?]), what is your source for PB?
-Pete
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mark Romero
Cool fly!! - may I ask what the ingredients are / what the recipe is?
I'd single out those items I'm most curious of, but that would list every
part of the fly
Seriously, the wing really piqued my fancy... not a married feather-slip
wing, but yet there's definite purple and pink- dyed fibers... At
Again, for being a perfectionist and banal realism junky, this is really
a cool tie!
Just clarifying: I meant that *I* am the banal (un-immaginative to the
extremes, yet ridiculously concerned with reality) tyer, yet I find this fly
a really cool tye.
(Have to clarify, else it comes out as an
600 bucks? let me guess, rare and unusual? I didn't think even THAT went
that high...
-Pete
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Mark Romero markflie...@hotmail.com wrote:
Chucktell me bout it..i started collectin' fly fishin'
and or tyin' books in '92...and i'm
up to
wow - is that... amherst tail?? the collar / hackle / whatever is wrapped
behind the hook's eye... never in a zillion years would have thought of that
- but it works! Caught me by surprise, but in a wow, that's cool sort of
way
Well done - keep em' coming!
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Mark
costed about $60. Will a book worth 10
times as much be 10 times as good... than Fly-Tier's Benchside Reference?
That'll be some book... ;o)
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;)
-Pete
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Niclas Runarsson
niclas.runars...@soderhamn.com wrote:
Correct:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571882596/
/Nick
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Mark Romero markflie...@hotmail.com wrote:
btw Donyour gonna need one hell of a REALLY stong
viseLMAO
Eh, just have someone hold it in place while you drive an armored car's
bumber against another one's bumper - that aught to
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM, mystikalra...@frontiernet.net wrote:
let me know what you all think so say what you would like and be totally
honest pls
Be totally honest? We're fishermen, come on, that's difficult. But let me
tell you about that hundred-trout day, all caught on a single size
I wouldn't say 'crappy' hooks... well, ok, maybe I would - but I won't...
;) Just that some hooks are better proportioned than others.
Unfortunately, that's sometimes done because of the hook strength - some
types/styles of hooks, if you have the proportions of the hook perfect, the
holding power
www.FeathersMc.com - tell him what you're after. He has some 1oz packets of
dubbing that are as close to seal's fur dubbing as you can get... Interpret
as you may :)
-Pete
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I have to laugh - my computer monitor stinks, I guess, or at least the
magnification stinks - the Vulturine looks like sparkly silver tinsel when
the photo isn't that large.
Sorry about that - Still quite a fly! I'm curious - is the wing 2 navy
flanked by 2 grey? The flies I sent you are baby
Hey, Mark - I just actually looked (instead of trying to recall by memory),
and the only blind-eyes left (untied upon) are singles (single shank hook
salmon), all have gut eyes tied on them, and they all look to be... hmm,
1/0's? (wildly guessing)... aberdeen or an unusual 'rounded limerick-like'
Are you looking for something akin to the Partridge of Redditch P, 02,
or Q lines? Page 21 and 22 of their catalog? (link below)
http://www.partridge-of-redditch.co.uk/2009_catalogue/Partridge_Cat_2009_2.pdf
(no affiliation, yadda yadda, just a reference to one manufacturer's models)
If so, what
So, just to make certain I get the gist right:
Any fly with fur... 12 flies...due 01JAN2010?
*IF* that's the case, count me in - I'm not sure what I'll do, but I'm
thinking it will be in the 12 to 16-ish range for size.
I have a silly work trip over a wednesday to friday where I'll have more
than
Man... between this stuff and a 'Z-lon wanna-be' material called Congo
Hair, put out by an online place called 'fly tyers dungeon' (in what they
call 'polar bear' color), I'm drooling!
Oh, standard disclaimers - not affiliated w/ fly tyer's dungeon, just a
happy user of their products, etc etc etc
From a 'cheap-skate', there's 2 'cheap tool substitutes' and a 'cheap
alternative to the benchside reference'... JUST MY OPINION, your results may
vary...
The stacker is great and very useful, but if you have a film canister and
aren't spinning TONS of hair in ONE loop / tie-in, it's fine (the
Personal preference is per Rene, to share the pattern(s) with the group...
and so:
I'd ask three things: what was the weather like, what was the time of day,
and what colour was the fly that was coming off (if you know)?
Without knowing those details, I'd suggest:
either a parachute or paraloop
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