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by ashley
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.
by ashley
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
by ashley
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.
by ashley
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.
by ashley
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 ...
by ashley
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.
by ashley
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.
by ashley
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...
by ashley
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...
by ashley
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