Pat, Where did you get the Polar Bear Hair? That stuff makes the best streamers
around. It has some weird Characteristic that makes fish hit it more than any other
material out there. This of course Is what Trophy Gerard Rainbow fisherman have
always told me. I can't seem to find any of the stuff. I went to Canada to find some
at the fly shops. They tied with it, but wouldn't sell me any. IF you have a source
for it let me know, I would love to get my hands on some.
Justin
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:52:41 -0800 Pat Bolton/Seattle/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the pix, Justin. And thks for the flies, guys! Ray...question on
>your spey style carey...hackle of the one I got is "multi-length" with the
>longest fibers about 1.5 to 1.75 X shank, and slightly barred. I've been
>looking at spey hackle options (want to tie some of the McNeese, Chinn,
>style speys). Can you tell me specifically what you used for the "dark
>version"? I've read about burning the hackle with bleach to get the fuzzy
>stuff (Deke Meyer's book on steelhead talks about doing this with
>heron...which I think is something no one's supposed to use), but haven't
>tried it, and wouldn't mind avoiding that process all together if I can
>find something else with the right movement in the water.
>
>Also, any tiers have good recommendations for polar bear? I got a small
>patch of natural and want to think about it before I take the scissors to
>it. Any info or sources of ideas, especially on spinning the short hairs
>for dubbing?
>
>On the water front...it's been way too many weeks since I was out, but I'm
>heading over the the peninsula (Quinnalt area) over the Thanksgiving
>holiday, any body got any ideas of what might be hot or even some smaller
>stream action?
>
>Pat Bolton (NWF)
>
>
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