Two materials that I often use for nymphs nowadays are pure lambs wool (I buy regular knitting yarn and comb it to dubbing) and for dryflies tailing material I often buy fan-shaped watercolor brushes (enclosed picture). Soren
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:56 PM Subject: [VFB] New topic -materials > I want to start a new topic that I have been thinking about recently. When I > started tying I bought items like hackle, peacock herl, pheasant tail, dubbing you > know the standard stuff. There are materials that I use now more often than not, > that I would never have thought I would use. > Qhat I want to do here is have folks pick two materials that they use regularly now > , that they wouldnt have thought of as common items when they started. Here are my > two items. My first item is moose body. I love to use moose body for tails on > adams, brown drakes etc. My other item is pheasant rump feathers. I have never > seen one patch of feathers have so many different types of feathers with different > characteristics . I use my pheasant rumps mostly for tying jack gartsides sparrow. > This was my number one bluegill fly for 4 years until it was replaced my a fly from > a member of this lists creation. > > Just thought this might be interesting. > > john ridderbos > >
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