Thanks to Don's rope-a-dubb I am now finally using craft items such as mylar shred, nylon yarn, polyester macrame' yarn, wool doll hair, etc. that I have collected over the years. It was all too unwieldy for conventional dubbing, and a 10 lifetime supply for occasional ribbing or flashback making. Now I can use it in great glops making buggers and bodies for various streamers. Thanks to rope dubbing it goes fast and looks great.
However, I could fish the rest of my life using just the following materials (beads, hooks, fly tying and ribbing materials assumed): Pheasant Tail, Peacock herl, Hare's mask, moose body hair, deer hair, olive marabou, and two Spirit River sof-paks of dubbing: Fine and Dry, and Dazel-tron. With those I could tie the following flies: BHPT, BHGRHE, Disco midge, Minimal Mayfly, Comparadun, and Damsel Fly nymph, which will catch fish anywhere, top or bottom, stream or stillwater.
Tom Davenport
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 02:56 PM, [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
