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- Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:49 am
- Forum: Tutorials / Step-by-Steps / Video Demos
- Topic: Wire / Dubbing Storage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6207
Re: Wire / Dubbing Storage
Excellent, looks likes a replacement for film canisters that I was using for the same thing but have a lot of trouble getting hold off now.
- Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:22 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Woolley's fav.II
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2446
Re: Woolley's fav.II
At a guess of what was available...
Blue dun
Green well
Badger
Blue dun
Green well
Badger
- Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:17 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: hemp&snipe caddis.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5624
Re: hemp&snipe caddis.
Great looking segmentation with the hemp. I'm sure I haven't heard of hemp yarn being used before.
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: wire and silk brushes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25202
Re: wire and silk brushes
Thanks for the link, I think I made something similar years ago but lost it. I'll be making a new one when I get home on Friday.
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:28 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: wire and silk brushes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25202
Re: wire and silk brushes
Love the lies, in regards to the bodies and the wire. When I saw the post and the reference I thought brushes but the wire looks ribbed. Do you premake the brushes before tying them in. If you are dubbing onto the wire itself then, do you apply some form of wax? I'm thinking of an article in a very ...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:12 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Dyed embroidery wool for bodies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10531
Re: Dyed embroidery wool for bodies
Thanks for the great tutorial, the pictures round it of by being of such high quality. I will have to try some blending myself, I can get the wool from the shop 300 yards from my house. Got the blender already.
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:35 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: hackles
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10049
Re: hackles
If I had to choose one cape for soft hackles it would be an English partridge skin. So many color variations on one skin.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Washing or Cleaning Feathers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7734
Re: Washing or Cleaning Feathers
These days I make the 2nd part of skin preservation the cleaning of the skin. The first having been the skinning of the beast. I find that the skin as much less fat in the skin itself thus making for a nicer quality skin when I finish. I preserve my skins along the same methods as written in From fi...
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:34 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Up or down-eyed.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11338
Re: Up or down-eyed.
Roughly 50% of my wet flies I use down eyed hooks, otherwise its straights eyed. I don't use up eyed for anything apart for salmon flies. The reason I don't use up-eyed is simply because I have no faith in their hooking ability and partly because I used them years ago, I don't think they look very n...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:22 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: IRISH PATTERNS
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5726
Re: IRISH PATTERNS
Nice flies, are for the trout (Gillaroo?) that shoal in the depths of loughs like Mask?
Please can you give the titles of the books?
Ashley
Please can you give the titles of the books?
Ashley