As my father recently said to me in an armchair session, it is not the hundreds of fish taken that one remembers, but those few heavy trout taken or lost under difficult conditions. Just the knowledge that a big fish is present adds flavor to the pool.
Ernest G. Schwiebert, Jr.
I remember a couple of days where we caught hundreds of trout…
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I have a nice piece of elk rump.
I want to remove all the fat and what ever else is there but I want the hyde to
be pliable.
I have dried other pieces of hyde with borax and salt, but it was always very
hard and stiff.
When you buy a piece of deer fur the hyde is usually very flexible.
Can any
Alan,
Any taxidermy shop can help you through the multi-step process, but an overview
for tannning that will give you a soft leather hide like you find in shops is
on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning
It is involved, and when I wanted hides tanned, I brought them into a tannery
and
Thanks, DonO and Joyce, Maybe I need to explain further. I too can and
do make mono eyes from several sizes of monofilament line. That is not
the problem. The problem is getting the mono to fuse together. I'm
gonna try and acquire some different brands of mono to try, but of the
four I've
I melt with the cautery with no problems. Any left over plastic will simply
burn off the end of it when you are done..just push the on button with
nothing on the end. I don't think the cautery cares what i burns and melts.
When you use the cautery,just hold it really close to the end of the mono
PS: have a cold piece of metal and just push the end of the hot mono onto it
if you want a flat eye.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Joyce Westphal westpha...@gmail.comwrote:
I melt with the cautery with no problems. Any left over plastic will
simply burn off the end of it when you are
A friend of mine used to tack a hide to plywood and cover it with Borax and
leave it laying flat for about a month and his turned out pretty good but not
sure if he did anything else to it or not. I do know all the flesh has got to
be removed or it may rot I've also heard salt will work but
rty this site for any info you may need they have everything you would need for
fish or animals
http://www.vandykestaxidermy.com/category/chemicals-and-tanning
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