From: "Pete and Michelle Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VFB] Newbie tying information- hare's mask Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:10:26 -0400Hi,Here is a link to a sight that has a ton of patterns and other information on it.http://www.ultimateflytying.com/ Tight lines, PetePlease check out our site for for warmwater flies and fine bamboo and graphite rods. All items made with my own hands.http://blacklabfliesandsupplies.com<br><br><br>From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Reply-To: <[email protected]><br>To: <[email protected]><br>Subject: Re: [VFB] Newbie tying information- hare's mask<br>Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:34:27 -0600<br><br>Chuck,<br><br>It also helps to get the trade publications in any endeavor, such as those<br>you mention.<br><br>If you have a fly shop close by, there are opportunities to get more free<br>information than you can deal with. "Fly Fish America' is a free publication<br>you can just pick up at most of them. Friends (like here) can send you<br>specific older magazines on topics such as warm water fishing. You can also<br>learn tons just from reading the ads.<br><br>Order a Cabela's Fly Fishing Catalog. Free and full of the most modern gear<br>for all types.<br><br>Order some shop catalogs, such as Dan Bailey's in Livingston, Montana and<br>The Fly Shop in Redding, Calif. (many more) Free and loads of patterns for<br>every type of fishing. Pick a pattern and then do an internet search for<br>the tying sequence. If you don't find it, someone here will be able to<br>help. Catalogs also present all of the fishing/tying paraphernalia.<br><br>Then there's books. Garage sales are a place to start, then used book shops<br>(put in a request), then wherever else you can find them.<br><br>Then there's the internet- millions of patterns and variations. Set up a<br>good filing system. And then use the VFB.<br><br>All of the above you can get for nothing or next to nothing, and it would<br>cantain more information than you can absorb. This leaves your $$$<br>available to invest in what interests you.<br><br>After that, and you know your hooked, you can rent CD's, buy specialty<br>books, and invest in your new passion.<br><br>The VFB is a two-sided forum. Ask questions and answer questions. Newbie?<br>Do some research, post your findings, and then ask questions. Bring<br>something to the table and then take something from the table. Find a great<br>site in your surfing? post it for others to share (you've seen this a lot).<br><br>May you have many crappie days fishing,<br><br>DonO<br><br>P.S. It's was Buggs that told Nick about the hare's mask. Buggs can't even<br>stand to look at one of those. (He only lets me have rabbit dubbing, combed<br>out of live, healthy rabbits.) When he sees a hare's mask, he says "That'<br>s OK- it was a jack-rabbit.", which, in rabbit talk, is like saying it was a<br>red-neck rabbit, thus not so bad.<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Chuck Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>To: <[email protected]><br>Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:19 AM<br>Subject: Re: [VFB] Good page...<br><br><br> > Nick: Thanks man.. cause as a newbie to tying, a lot of this IS "all Greek<br> > to me" as they say...I pan for gold, make hand made soaps, turn wood on<br>the<br> > lathe, and they all have their own "vocabulary". so if ya don't learn that<br> > vocabulary pretty quick, you'll be lost.... Chuck<br> ><br> > ----- Original Message -----<br> > From: "Niclas Runarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br> > To: <[email protected]><br> > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:24 AM<br> > Subject: [VFB] Good page...<br> ><br> ><br> > People out there,<br> ><br> > Good page for beginners and people with English as second language. Makes<br>it<br> > easier to follow the gobbledygook that the elite tyers here are speaking:<br> ><br> > http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingterms/<br> ><br> > For a time now, I have had my doubts about the material "Rabbit's Mask". I<br> > looked it up because I wanted to see what it really was...since it was<br>just<br> > a mask. Was it really a rabbit under there, or could it be a form of<br> > universal substitute?<br> ><br> > >From dictionary: "The "mask" or head and face skin from a summer killed<br> > rabbit is especially unique in the fly tier's kit."<br> ><br> > ... which must mean that we are speaking about an actual rabbit, since it<br> > also is substituted with "head and face skin from a summer killed rabbit".<br> ><br> > Just joking (as Jester has the day off). DonO has already clarified to me<br> > that the material isn't from the rabbit at all. It's the beard and the<br>hair<br> > from the rabbit's Santa's mask. It defies tradition and is wearing the<br>mask<br> > during the summer too... and that is why you have to kill it to achieve<br>it.<br> > (I have seen rabbits in the summer and personally I think it's a very<br>crappy<br> > Santa disguise though.)<br> ><br> > Anyway, it's a good page. Put it into your favourites and it will be<br>easier<br> > to follow the VFB conversations... as well as many fly-tying recipes out<br> > there.<br> ><br> > /Nick<br> ><br> ><br><br>
Hey Pete, tell me something. How these guys use the word "ultimate" wiffout
a single salmon fly on the site? I bookmarked it anyway...........;-)
