Your ramblings make good sense Rick. Thanks for sharing them. I'm slowly reaching some of the same conclusions. :0) Deb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Zieger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Major Pattern Inventions
> I am not usre that there are many new pattern ideas now. > > Ian Moutter in the book "Tying Flies eh Paraloop Way" says "So once again it > seems there is notheing new in fly tying and my foolish presumption was > brougfht soundly back to earth. ... That I was not the origantor of the > method is of no consequence,other than a slight nip to my ego." > > I think that people may put things together differently than was done > before. I do a foam spider with no thread. I have seen alot of spider with > thread and have been told that no one else does the no thread. My feeling > is that I have just not run onto the person doing it, or have not seen the > book that it is in. > > I tie a luminescent bodied fly that has a small blade on the front of it > like a road runner to use in murky water or when it is dark. I just > combined a couple of things that I had seen on other flies. > > I think that we all have made variations inflies and have used a different > material to do it. > > My ramblings, and I will go hide now. > > Rick > >
