FOR MARK May your GOD be your fishing partner.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [VFB] Re: FW: for the list......... Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:04:10 -0600 for the list........ DonO, email has been sent..........reply asap if at all possible. TKX. As for the HUGE hooks i have.........they are all in the tyin' room in Arkansas........i don't have those with me. We will be back there appr. the 16th/17th of July..........and be there bout a week before heading for Colorado. i can bring some of them with me to Colorado if you like so you can "see" them. Or, when we get home, i can have Misako take a pic of a sampling of them and send it to you by email. Whichever.....the pic deal would be better because then i don't have to haul them all over the country-side for nothing.........i mean in terms of i won't need them to tye on at the show in Colorado, so why bring them if i'm not gonna use them. i have tyed on them at a show, (Sowbug), but i ended up doin' one fly per day.....in fact at this years Sowbug i did three flies total.....one a day on those hooks. All three came out great, but it takes all damn day to finish a fly, specially while talking to the public while tyin'. So i hadn't planned on bringing those hooks with me to Colorado. I'd rather tye on those at home.....then i can take 2/3 days to finish one, because i have access to all my materials and can take my time making decisions all along the way as to what i wanna use, etc. Ya dig? i have never measured any of these particular hooks we're referring to..........gap/gape OR shank length.........all i can tell you is they ARE BIG............HUGE actually. Every single one is different.......so far there have been no two exactly alike. Some of been close to another, by not so close that you wouldn't automaticaly notice differences. Each is unique.....and THAT'S the whole point. Gap size.....shank length.....bend style, etc. Each is a one of a kind in a manor of speaking. One, of the MAIN reasons i love 'em so much. But just in terms of a guestimate bout gap size.......i HAVE to say the largest ones are easily a 20/0. And the longest ones are 8/9 inches in shank length, maybe longer.....probably longer. i'm basically doin' designs, that are to a large degree, two flies on one hook in some cases, depending on the design. If i can't find feathers i like well enough to do single feather wings, on say any particular hook, then i go to a double fly type a deal.......because it's very hard to find feathers with fibers long enough to do a wing, (Married or Mixed) on hooks this big. They virtually don't exist. But that's fine.....not a problem. Or if it is a problem.....what is fly tying, BUT, solving problems? So you find a way to solve it. Thank you very much. Use Polar Bear hair or any of a number of other materials. Also, the really long shanks afford me the opprotunity to use more than one bead in a fly sometimes. Rice AND Beens, Rock AND Roll, Country AND Western, Hot AND Tamale.....lmao. Btw, the hooks have no barbs.....they are somewhat crude in nature..........kinna like me, lmao. But i love 'em. They've got a RAW, rough, metalic, hard-core nature, look to 'em. Sophisticated in their own way........primitive to a degree........but sometimes "Primitive" is cool. You dig? You'll understand instantly when you see 'em. The one comment i got constantly at the Sowbug about 'em was..............."whataya catch with those.....sharks?" Picture that in your mind. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Re: FW: for the list......... Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:50:03 -0600 Mark, Just curious, do you have a photo of your 20/0 hooks anywhere? How long is it overall, and what is the gap measurement? DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: jim phillips To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:11 PM Subject: [VFB] FW: for the list......... FROM MARK May your GOD be your fishing partner. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: for the list......... Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:46:01 -0600 WOW!!!!!!!!! i just SCORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON EBAY..........got 8 antique gut violin strings...........5 E strings, one D sting, one A string and one they're not sure what it is, "Pitch" wise. But i'm sure it'll be fine. i use the material to make the eyes on my flies when i'm using the REALLY HUGE blind eye hooks i sometimes use.........we're talkin' 20/0 and up. It works PERFECT.......and that big a stash will last me for a LONG time.........can get bout a dozen to two dozen eyes out of one string.........say at least 15 per string..........times 8. in a word, Good To Go...........oh well, "three little words." me Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See how. Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.26/2116 - Release Date: 5/15/09 6:16 AM Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check it out. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
