[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
Tony, do you remember a sporting goods store called Ramsey's Outdoors in Paramus? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:12:45 -0700 From: bambot...@yahoo.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Good to know that. Tony --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Mark R

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2009-09-22 Thread Alan Di Somma
From: Mark Romero To: virtual fly box Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? Alan, Tony.the Hackensack has been cleaned up and is not a bad river to fish nowdays...definately has no more smell. It has it's own Riverkeeper

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2009-09-22 Thread Anthony Spezio
Good to know that. Tony --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Mark Romero wrote: From: Mark Romero Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: "virtual fly box" Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 5:31 PM Alan, Tony.the Hackensack has been cleaned up and is not a bad river to fi

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2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
Tony, Stripers actually run up that thing now. Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:31:11 -0700 From: bambot...@yahoo.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Spent many a day catching Blue Claw Crabs on that river, It had the smell of a marsh. Tony

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2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:15:26 -0700 Tony: I remember the Hackensack River very well. I had and Aunt & Uncle that we used to visit on the weekends and stay there. That place had a smell all it own also. Thank you

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2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
bject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com I know the place real well, used to hunt there myself. As for the smell, I learned to fly on the Hakansack River in seaplanes. Our flying practice area was in that pig farm area, the smell came all the way up to 2000

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
they been sayin' hoffa was under the old Giants stadium for yearslike anybody gives a LMAO! way to many people need to get lives...jeeze. From: phxflyt...@cox.net To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

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2009-09-22 Thread Anthony Spezio
Spent many a day catching Blue Claw Crabs on that river, It had the smell of a marsh. Tony --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Alan Di Somma wrote: From: Alan Di Somma Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 4:15 PM

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2009-09-22 Thread Alan Di Somma
- From: Alan Di Somma To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:06 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? I used to hunt wild fowl and rabbits in the Meadowlands when we used to call it " Secaucus Swamp" There was a pig far

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2009-09-22 Thread Anthony Spezio
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[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-22 Thread Alan Di Somma
licious!" http://www.azflyfishing.net/ - Original Message - From: Mark Romero To: virtual fly box Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:17 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? i love to stop in Bass Pro and or Cabelas as often as possible. One of my fa

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2009-09-22 Thread Mark Romero
Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > From: glw...@gundluth.org > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:35:49 -0500 > > > I live about an hour's drive from the Cabela's store in Prairie Du Chein, > WI. It's not one of thei

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-22 Thread glwebb
I live about an hour's drive from the Cabela's store in Prairie Du Chein, WI. It's not one of their biggest stores, but it is part of one of Cabela's distribution centers. So if you've seen something in one of their catalogs and don't see it in the store just ask for it to be retrieved from the

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2009-09-21 Thread Mark Romero
hat do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com We're having a good time with the program up here. I taught some tying this spring. We had an outing at Ft. Leavenworth this weekend. --- On Mon, 9/21/09, Mark Romero wrote: From: Mark Romero Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you

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2009-09-21 Thread Jeff Frye
We're having a good time with the program up here. I taught some tying this spring. We had an outing at Ft. Leavenworth this weekend. --- On Mon, 9/21/09, Mark Romero wrote: From: Mark Romero Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: "virtual fly box" Date: Mo

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Romero
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:48:29 -0700 > From: bighawk...@yahoo.com > Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > > > It's a dubbing block. You can make one for almost nothing. > > --- On Sat, 9/19/09, Wes Wada

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2009-09-21 Thread Mark Romero
Yeah i guess they've never made much of a dent in the PNW. Sportsman Warehouse is pretty well established out there. sorry for bein' so short..but i gotta try and catch up... Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:24:36 -0700 Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thin

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2009-09-21 Thread Wes Wada
Hi Mark, If you look at this map: http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPageC?appID=94&storeId=10151&catalogId=10001&langId=-1 You can see why I've never been to a Bass Pro shop before. Obviously the Pacific NW is not Bass Pro country! The picture of a shop in the background of thi

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2009-09-21 Thread Mark Romero
Wes, i've been to i think, every Bass Pro store in the country..but the one here in Springflield (2 hours from us) is the biggest. That's their home base. The closeout/discount store next door is as big as some of their regular stores. The have another store in Branson (where we were all th

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2009-09-20 Thread Anthony Spezio
s.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Spezio Sent: September-20-09 5:28 AM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? A company in Canada has one. The owners last name is Root. Just can't remember all the names.

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2009-09-20 Thread Nevile Gosling
: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? A company in Canada has one. The owners last name is Root. Just can't remember all the names. Saw a demo at one of the Dealers shows in SLC. Tony --- On Sat, 9/19/09, Neville Gosling wrote: From: Neville Goslin

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Frye
It's a dubbing block. You can make one for almost nothing. --- On Sat, 9/19/09, Wes Wada wrote: > From: Wes Wada > Subject: [VFB] Duh, what do you call this thing? > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 7:30 PM > Hi VFB! > A quickee question.  You might know of t

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2009-09-20 Thread Wes Wada
Another one from the Hatches.tv site. $5 or less in materials, plus a standard thumb-whirl type dubbing loop twister tool you might already own. http://www.hatches.tv/play.php?vid=403 On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Wes Wada wrote: > Found this video on the Hatches Magazine site...a very goo

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2009-09-20 Thread Wes Wada
Found this video on the Hatches Magazine site...a very good illustration of how a dubbing brush maker works. This particular design is motorized, and I like the tension adjustment device. http://www.hatches.tv/play.php?vid=233 Wes --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-20 Thread Anthony Spezio
I think it was Winter of 08 of Spring of 09. I may be wrong. Tony --- On Sun, 9/20/09, Rick Zieger wrote: From: Rick Zieger Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 8:40 AM About 1 to 2 years ago there were directions

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2009-09-20 Thread ashley strutt
materials listed in the article. >> >> Rick >> >> --- On *Sun, 9/20/09, Anthony Spezio * wrote: >> >> >> From: Anthony Spezio >> Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? >> To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com >> Date: Sunday, Septe

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-20 Thread Wes Wada
s in SLC. > Tony > > --- On *Sat, 9/19/09, Neville Gosling * wrote: > > > From: Neville Gosling > Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 9:39 PM > > Wes: > > There are severa

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-20 Thread Rick Zieger
About 1 to 2 years ago there were directions in "Fly Tyer" by Jim Smith, I think, about building ylu own. All materials listed in the article.   Rick --- On Sun, 9/20/09, Anthony Spezio wrote: From: Anthony Spezio Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To

[VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing?

2009-09-20 Thread Anthony Spezio
A company in Canada has one. The owners last name is Root. Just can't remember all the names. Saw a demo at one of the Dealers shows in SLC. Tony --- On Sat, 9/19/09, Neville Gosling wrote: From: Neville Gosling Subject: [VFB] Re: Duh, what do you call this thing? To: vfb

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2009-09-20 Thread Joseph Fusco, Sr.
*Wes - I have one that was made for me by a friend. It looks much like the illustrations you will find in the links given by others, but mine is set up so it can be driven with an electric drill - quick work on the twisting, and you can almost go into mass production. My friend said that the toug

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2009-09-19 Thread Neville Gosling
Wes: There are several different machines/tools out there. Mine is the original Czech Turbo Spinning Block, which are rather expensive (got mine at a greatly reduced price). Jan Siman Ltd has them. Norvise has a similar attachment and I think Doug Swisher has one as well. There was also one made

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2009-09-19 Thread iain short
Wes I make it with a loop of fine copper wire, (about 16 inches folded in half) Loose ends held in a fly vise, Other end on a cuphook held in an electric screwdriver. Maintain even tension while applying dubbing and twisting. I prefer seal, hare or rabbit fur. Evenly spread between the wires then