Re: [VFB] How many hackle feathers do you use for a fly

[mark romero]

Rene, if you'd like the video "Set" i was telling you about, contact the 
Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFC&M) and order them. IF, you join 
the Catskill Fly Tyer Guild, (for $10 a year) you get a discount as long as 
you purchase by Dec. i think it is(?). I think the non discounted price is 
bout $130 and it's $99 for CFTG members. So you still save even after the 
CFTG dues. I can hook you up, but if you snooze, you loose. The museums 
web-site is www.CFFCM.org i think(?) lol. Try that. Phone number is 
845-439-4810. mark..........


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rene Zillmann)
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Subject: Re: [VFB] How many hackle feathers do you use for a fly
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:49:02 +0200
Mark,
that's right, hackling can be very divers. I'm currently running through a 
book about the history of soft hackled flies. (Book was recently reviewed 
on Globalflyfi). It covers 200 years of writing about softhackles, 
referencing a lot of old books. Some of the books discuss dry as well.  In 
some older books they tie in the hackle by the tip and wrap them using the 
steem as handle.
I was demonstrated this for soft hackles by Jeff Hintz during the sowbug. I 
tie them now this way.

Maybe I can look for the videos, when I'm over there for the next time. Was 
unable to make detailed plans, though.

Rene
mark romero wrote:
Rene, two videos you can get to sort of show you how diverse hackling can 
be, (because of course, the fish don't...............) are 1. Dave 
Brandt's volume of a new set of 4 by Catskill masters, and 2., one by 
Royce Dam which he was selling at the Sowbug when we were there. Both 
approaches work....yet they are fastly different. One is pure Catskill 
style, the other is a western approach. All the information you'll ever 
need is out there, you just gotta hunt it out. If you need help getting 
the Catskill videos, i can help. The other three in the "set" are, wets by 
Ralph Graves; streamers by Burt Darrow (our new president at the CFFC&M); 
and nymphs by Floyd Frankie. Lemme know, mark.......



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