Oh, oh so is it moose quill or goose quill. Don, I am the last person to make fun of typing mistake if that is what it is. I just thought there was something out there I had not heard about.
Mike On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Allan Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > NAW. Mike. It's from one of the feathers > > On 11/5/12 8:00 PM, Michael Bliss wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > Allan Fish > Greenwood, [email protected] > > -- > 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
