Re: [VFB] Re: winging advice-tail advice..help needed

[Don Ordes]

If you're using a 3x dry hook, it should come at least to the bend.  Are you using kip or white deer belly? It makes a little difference.  Stacked/shaped deer goes to the bend.  The tapered denseness of kip can extend beyond since it 'fades out' instead of having a defined shape like stacked deer.  This is why there's a variance of 'opinions' on wing length.  I use polar bear and the 2nd method.  It's not 'wrong' to go to the end of the tail, as I've heard that called a royal trude 'stimulator'. My 2 cents DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce Westphal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: winging advice-tail advice..help needed Proportions needed: how long is the wing on a royal coachman trude? I have always thought it came to the end of the hook bend..but now have discovered in Umqua feather merchants and in a video that it should come to 1/2 the length of the tail extending beyond the hook bend. Then, in another book, says that Chuck's trude style has it come clear to the end of the tail, but in that trude the tail is not 1 shank length but is 1/2 shank length. HELP>.what is the length of tail and wing on a royal coachman trude? Joyce