Re: [VFB] Newbie tying information- hare's mask

Pete and Michelle Lawrence Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:32:27 -0700

Hi,

Here is a link to a sight that has a ton of patterns and other informationon it.


http://www.ultimateflytying.com/

Tight lines,

Pete

Please check out our site for for warmwater flies and fine bamboo andgraphite rods. All items made with my own hands.


http://blacklabfliesandsupplies.com

 From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:<[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re:[VFB] Newbie tying information- hare's mask Date: Sun, 26 Jun 200508:34:27 -0600 Chuck, It also helps to get the tradepublications in any endeavor, such as those you mention. If youhave a fly shop close by, there are opportunities to get morefree information than you can deal with. "Fly Fish America' is afree publication you can just pick up at most of them. Friends (likehere) can send you specific older magazines on topics such as warm waterfishing. You can also learn tons just from reading the ads. Ordera Cabela's Fly Fishing Catalog. Free and full of the most moderngear for all types. Order some shop catalogs, such as Dan Bailey'sin Livingston, Montana and The Fly Shop in Redding, Calif. (many more)Free and loads of patterns for every type of fishing. Pick a pattern andthen 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 thefishing/tying paraphernalia. Then there's books. Garage sales are aplace to start, then used book shops (put in a request), then whereverelse you can find them. Then there's the internet- millions ofpatterns and variations. Set up a good filing system. And then use theVFB. All of the above you can get for nothing or next to nothing, andit would cantain more information than you can absorb. This leaves your$$$ available to invest in what interests you. After that, and youknow your hooked, you can rent CD's, buy specialty books, and invest inyour new passion. The VFB is a two-sided forum. Ask questions andanswer questions. Newbie? Do some research, post your findings, and thenask questions. Bring something to the table and then take something fromthe table. Find a great site in your surfing? post it for others toshare (you've seen this a lot). May you have many crappie daysfishing, DonO P.S. It's was Buggs that told Nick about thehare's mask. Buggs can't even stand to look at one of those. (He onlylets me have rabbit dubbing, combed out of live, healthy rabbits.) Whenhe sees a hare's mask, he says "That' s OK- it was ajack-rabbit.", which, in rabbit talk, is like saying it wasa 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 handmade soaps, turn wood on the > lathe, and they all have their own"vocabulary". so if ya don't learn that > vocabulary prettyquick, 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 outthere, > > Good page for beginners and people with English assecond language. Makes it > easier to follow the gobbledygook thatthe elite tyers here are speaking: > >http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingterms/ > > For atime 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...sinceit was just > a mask. Was it really a rabbit under there, or couldit be a form of > universal substitute? > > >Fromdictionary: "The "mask" or head and face skin from a summerkilled > rabbit is especially unique in the fly tier's kit." > > ... which must mean that we are speaking about an actualrabbit, since it > also is substituted with "head and face skinfrom a summer killed rabbit". > > Just joking (as Jesterhas the day off). DonO has already clarified to me > that thematerial 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 wearingthe mask > during the summer too... and that is why you have tokill it to achieve it. > (I have seen rabbits in the summer andpersonally I think it's a very crappy > Santa disguisethough.) > > Anyway, it's a good page. Put it into yourfavourites and it will be easier > to follow the VFBconversations... as well as many fly-tying recipes out > there. > > /Nick > > 

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