Mark I was looking at my spey flies I have collected... I had to laugh.... of the ones I could find in just a couple minutes three of them tied by people you may know, Tim Trexler, Stack Scoville and Steve Taggart all would fit in the gap (gape) of the hooks you used on your spey flies. They would take a smaller hackle from a Ring neck pheasant rump one of them has a small hackle that doesn't extend beyond the bend of the hook I may even venture to guess this may be a long saddle hackle but it is tied in spey style. These were all tied for fishing but I've framed them in Riker boxes. Regards, Deb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark romero Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [VFB] Any need for Crow Feathers
Ok Deb, now you got me to where i've got to find out. CHAZ, do crows have ANY feathers on 'em that can be used on spey flies? And that is........using a framing size hook, or a fishing size hook. I trust we all agree that there's not much sense in framing a salmon fly of any type on a hook much smaller than say a size 2. Not if your really thinking about your audience anyway. So Chaz, i guess the question is really, do crows have any feathers that can be used to tye spey flies on a size 2 hook or larger? Personally i wouldn't tye one on anything less than a size 1/0 anyway....not for framing. mark >From: "Deborah Duran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [VFB] Any need for Crow Feathers >Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:58:34 -0500 > >Mark >Some people actually fish spey flies. ROTFL... Yours may be a little wild >but I bet they would still fish well. >I've seen them tied small from some guys down in Pete's area that fish >them. >He could probably use some of the crow feathers for fishing flies. If they >have a thicker quill he can also split that down the middle. Soak the >feather in warm water to soften it and then tie it in. >I don't know if Tim Trexler is still on the list but he ties some smaller >spey flies he may have some suggestions for Pete. >Regards, >Deb > > > > >
