Re: [VFB] Speckled cree necks- Tony

[Tony]

Don,
I suspect that they are not true cree but look a lot like cree.
At the time I was not familiar with cree so I really had no idea.
I will try to get downstairs this weekend and will be glad to send you 
some shots.
I will have to get someone to get them down off a high shelf.
These may be variants and I am calling them speckled. Have not had them 
out in a good while.
Tony

DonO wrote:

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
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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
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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.
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Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:21 PM
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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