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A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
Good one Ray! It made me stop and think about some of my "furry" friends from college!
Johnno, great idea about starting a thread or post about opening up our various fly boxes! Please start it off!
I would like to see your patterns in all their glory! Let's get everybody involved in this one!
Thank you once again everyone for the kind words about my patterns! When I stop and consider just where these well wishes are coming from.....the best of the best.....I am humbled! Again, a great big THANKS to all!
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Johnno, great idea about starting a thread or post about opening up our various fly boxes! Please start it off!
I would like to see your patterns in all their glory! Let's get everybody involved in this one!
Thank you once again everyone for the kind words about my patterns! When I stop and consider just where these well wishes are coming from.....the best of the best.....I am humbled! Again, a great big THANKS to all!
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
Good idea about posting the box. Heck yes.DOUGSDEN wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:54 pm Good one Ray! It made me stop and think about some of my "furry" friends from college!
Johnno, great idea about starting a thread or post about opening up our various fly boxes! Please start it off!
I would like to see your patterns in all their glory! Let's get everybody involved in this one!
Thank you once again everyone for the kind words about my patterns! When I stop and consider just where these well wishes are coming from.....the best of the best.....I am humbled! Again, a great big THANKS to all!
D. in the Den
Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
I like this idea but here is a twist...
RIMG0955 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
One of my first "fly boxes" from the early 1960's complete with the only flies I have from my tying back in the 50'S & 60's.
I also had a Prince Albert in a can "fly Box" as well one real plastic rotary dry fly box.
I came across this blast from the past when I was doing some Covid social distancing cleanup of my old tackle boxes at Camp Roadkill in central Oregon.
RIMG0955 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
One of my first "fly boxes" from the early 1960's complete with the only flies I have from my tying back in the 50'S & 60's.
I also had a Prince Albert in a can "fly Box" as well one real plastic rotary dry fly box.
I came across this blast from the past when I was doing some Covid social distancing cleanup of my old tackle boxes at Camp Roadkill in central Oregon.
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
Wow! That is awesome. That's a great way to go down Memory Lane.
Thanks for showing it to us.
Thanks for showing it to us.
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
What an absolute treat, seeing your early flies. I see so many patterns I’d love to try.
Thank you for sharing Bill. Wonderful twist.
Thank you for sharing Bill. Wonderful twist.
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
Ray,
To tie the black hair streamers at the middle top you would need to have a black street mongrel you were nursing back to health after getting hit by a car. About 1961 "Shorty" was given to me by a neighbor who found him in the street in back of the local liquor store.
He hit the road again when he was healthy that fall.
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
Bill - That is one of the patterns that first grabbed my eye. It reminds me very much of some of the New Zealand lures I tye and love to fish. I’m always surprised how similar our taste in flies is. We might be brothers…
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Re: A glimpse into Doug's fly box (Winter 2023 Tying)
My Shorty flies were one of the reasons I loved the Hairy Dog and other similar Kiwi flies at first sight.