Hi John: This is a product that Montana fly is marketing. They are calling it the Henry's Fork Hackle (tm). Through some fly shops maybe Byard's business. Anyway it appears to be the regular CDC that they have wrapped on thread and kind of created a new duck hackle. Anyway I had a sample from them and was trying on parachutes. I just cannot hardly imagine the poor people that have to set and pluck the cdc feathers and stick between 2 pieces of thread. Talk about corporal punishment.
Montana fly has some products that I have been testing for my own tying. They have a new wing sheet material called Etha wing that works good on some of my hopper patterns. Their other wing product, is a little stiffer then I like for a wing material. I still have find time to try the swishers rub a dub dubbing. I will probably get a thousand lasses from Byard again:o Just my opinion on some fly tying materials. I am always looking for materials that work good on some of my favorite patterns, just need more time to work on the testing stage. Bill Morrison ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Strange things today > Bill- > > When you mention duck hackle, are you talking about > hackle like off the back (saddle) of a duck or are you > talking about CDC? Does it look like and handle like > regular hackle only larger? > > Just curious...always into new tying material. I tried > posting a similar message earlier, but never saw it > come up, although somehow, Byard must have seen it, > cuz he sent me a reply offlist. > > Thanks for any info on this stuff, Bill. Also, where > do you get it from? > > -John > Oregon >
