Don, I will expose my ignorance, what is a moose quill? Where is it on the moose? Is it the mane?
Mike On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Don Ordes <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Pete, > I also tie mine with stiff moose quill tails- much more durable and > floatable than pheasant crest. > The kip wings take a lot of floatant and thus ride high and are very > visable on rough western rivers & waters. This is what Lee Wulff had in > mind. > > DonO > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Peter Gramp <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:32 PM > *Subject:* [VFB] Royal Coachman Dry Fly's Wings - what are they? > > 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 calf tail wings... not with the duck quill slip wings that I > originally thought. I tried looking up the pattern on google and in > YouTube, but what I found was that about half of the recipes and/or > pictures said upright quill wings, and the other half said calf tail > upright. So I'm curious, what should the wings be for this pattern? I'm > sure that either would work for catching trout, but I'm curious what the > original pattern called for. (the calf tail wings remind me more of a > Wulff than a Coachman, for what it is worth, but what do I know) For such > a famous pattern, you would think that the recipe would be the same from > one website source to another, but that's not what I found. > Any help would be great! > -Pete > > -- > 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 > > -- > 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 > -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- 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
