I find I am using crystal flash in almost all of my flies these days and another item I seem to be using with greater frequency is a synthetic wing material similar to Stalcup's medallion sheeting. These two materials have influenced my tying more than any others in the past couple of years. On another note if there were only two materials I could have to tie with they would be deer hair and peacock herl. Mel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
