Tony, Can you send me a photo of those two necks, please? I am curious, as I'm not familiar with a speckled cree. All of the cree I've seen is bar- cree (and the variants). I have many mottled and speckled capes, but none in the traditional cree colors. So I would really appreciate a look-see. Thanks, DonO
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Any openings in swaps? > Here is a story about my experience with hackles. I was on a trip to > Maine and stopped in LL Bean. They had a bin of closeouts that the > salesman was putting out. > They were small necks @ 50 cents each. Having travel money I splurged. > Picked out 50 necks figuring I could trade them for something. They were > all natural necks. In the bunch there were some necks like I had not see > before. There were mottled and speckled brown , black and cream . I I > picked out 25 of those. I made a stop a fly shop in New Hampshire and > was telling the owner about the necks. He wanted to see them. Then he > made me an offer, he would trade the 9' 9 wt I was looking at for some > of those necks. He took 20 of the 25 speckled necks and a couple of > others. He is a commercial tyer and was going to use them for tying > Adams dry flies. He wanted all of the speckled ones but I wanted to give > a couple to my tying group. I kept five > I will make this short. When I showed them to my tying buddy, he said, > Those are Cree and offered me 10.00 each. > I still have two of the necks and really hate to pluck any feathers off > of of them. > That is what happens when you are not educated on what you have. > Tony > > J&A Burbank wrote: > > >I tie the majority like Tony does, but I also tie a good number of them with > >Grizzly dyed golden brown. It's a wonderful color that I got in last years > >co-op and I'd like to get a half saddle in it. > > > >Byard, is that something you can take care of? : ) > > > >Jim > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:06 AM > >Subject: Re: [VFB] Any openings in swaps? > > > > > > > > > >>I tie them with a grizzly and brown hackle inter wound with each other. > >>Tony > >> > >>Rene Zillmann wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Bob, > >>>Don says the same. Ok, 2:1, maybe I loose <G>. I read the scan from > >>>the Herters book you sent me. There are 2 hackles mentioned, but no > >>>colors, only the type of rooster. > >>>Have to investigate > >>>Rene > >>> > >>> > >>>Bob Haering wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Rene I think it is cree that is used in the original. It was invent > >>>>here in Michigan after all. > >>>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>On Behalf Of Rene Zillmann > >>>>Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:21 PM > >>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Subject: Re: [VFB] Any openings in swaps? > >>>> > >>>>Don, > >>>>btw: i still have to name my pattern. I'll intent to ty an Adams in its > >>>>original dressing as good as I can get the materials. No cree needed, > >>>>if memory serves the old pattern used some badger.. > >>>>Rene > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >
