Oh.. I also just found out that they are building (started last yr so I need to check it out) a 165,000 sq ft (big as THREE football fields) Bass Pro shop only 45 miles from my front door... It is supposed to be one of their biggest "Super Centers" (In Leeds AL) but the homepage says it will all the time have demos from Fly Casting, tying, to using spinner baits in a HUGE aquarium, etc etc .... That should be a wealth of knowledge that place.... I'll be glad when it opens.. They are supposed to have every Bass Pro Boat available....Just anything you'd want for any type fishing you want... Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Newbie tying information- hare's mask > Chuck, > > It also helps to get the trade publications in any endeavor, such as those > you mention. > > If you have a fly shop close by, there are opportunities to get more free > information than you can deal with. "Fly Fish America' is a free publication > you can just pick up at most of them. Friends (like here) can send you > specific older magazines on topics such as warm water fishing. You can also > learn tons just from reading the ads. > > Order a Cabela's Fly Fishing Catalog. Free and full of the most modern gear > for all types. > > Order some shop catalogs, such as Dan Bailey's in Livingston, Montana and > The Fly Shop in Redding, Calif. (many more) Free and loads of patterns for > every type of fishing. Pick a pattern and then do an internet search for > the tying sequence. If you don't find it, someone here will be able to > help. Catalogs also present all of the fishing/tying paraphernalia. > > Then there's books. Garage sales are a place to start, then used book shops > (put in a request), then wherever else you can find them. > > Then there's the internet- millions of patterns and variations. Set up a > good filing system. And then use the VFB. > > All of the above you can get for nothing or next to nothing, and it would > cantain more information than you can absorb. This leaves your $$$ > available to invest in what interests you. > > After that, and you know your hooked, you can rent CD's, buy specialty > books, and invest in your new passion. > > The VFB is a two-sided forum. Ask questions and answer questions. Newbie? > Do some research, post your findings, and then ask questions. Bring > something to the table and then take something from the table. Find a great > site in your surfing? post it for others to share (you've seen this a lot). > > May you have many crappie days fishing, > > DonO > > P.S. It's was Buggs that told Nick about the hare's mask. Buggs can't even > stand to look at one of those. (He only lets me have rabbit dubbing, combed > out of live, healthy rabbits.) When he sees a hare's mask, he says "That' > s OK- it was a jack-rabbit.", which, in rabbit talk, is like saying it was a > red-neck rabbit, thus not so bad. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Good page... > > > > Nick: Thanks man.. cause as a newbie to tying, a lot of this IS "all Greek > > to me" as they say...I pan for gold, make hand made soaps, turn wood on > the > > lathe, and they all have their own "vocabulary". so if ya don't learn that > > vocabulary pretty quick, you'll be lost.... Chuck > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Niclas Runarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:24 AM > > Subject: [VFB] Good page... > > > > > > People out there, > > > > Good page for beginners and people with English as second language. Makes > it > > easier to follow the gobbledygook that the elite tyers here are speaking: > > > > http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingterms/ > > > > For a time now, I have had my doubts about the material "Rabbit's Mask". I > > looked it up because I wanted to see what it really was...since it was > just > > a mask. Was it really a rabbit under there, or could it be a form of > > universal substitute? > > > > >From dictionary: "The "mask" or head and face skin from a summer killed > > rabbit is especially unique in the fly tier's kit." > > > > ... which must mean that we are speaking about an actual rabbit, since it > > also is substituted with "head and face skin from a summer killed rabbit". > > > > Just joking (as Jester has the day off). DonO has already clarified to me > > that the material isn't from the rabbit at all. It's the beard and the > hair > > from the rabbit's Santa's mask. It defies tradition and is wearing the > mask > > during the summer too... and that is why you have to kill it to achieve > it. > > (I have seen rabbits in the summer and personally I think it's a very > crappy > > Santa disguise though.) > > > > Anyway, it's a good page. Put it into your favourites and it will be > easier > > to follow the VFB conversations... as well as many fly-tying recipes out > > there. > > > > /Nick > > > > >
