Ostrich herl in a range of colors and other feathers thaty I run across. I find more and more things to use for hackles and gills on flies.
Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:56 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 >
