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by JohnMD1022
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Two Feather Soft Hackle
Replies: 2
Views: 122

Re: Two Feather Soft Hackle

I like it.
by JohnMD1022
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Replies: 11
Views: 1978

Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.

Being a native Virginian, I call them possums.

The only people referring to them as “opossums” are those fanged uppity Yankees, and we all know they talk funny.

😀😀
by JohnMD1022
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:42 pm
Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
Topic: Leisenring for sale
Replies: 21
Views: 4746

Re: Leisenring for sale

Good on ya, Ron.

I thought of bidding, but I have it, and at somewhere between 800 and 1,000 books on trout fishing I need to cut back.

Then, there are the food books and the books on guns, hunting and bird dogs.
by JohnMD1022
Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
Topic: Leisenring for sale
Replies: 21
Views: 4746

Leisenring for sale

eBay, second edition.

Starting bid $22
by JohnMD1022
Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:15 pm
Forum: Wet Fly Literature and History
Topic: “Summer on the Test”
Replies: 10
Views: 16573

Re: “Summer on the Test”

One of the true gems of fly fishing literature.

My preference for spring creeks has resulted in a pretty good collection of English chalk stream authors.

Where the Bright Waters Meet by Harry Plunket Greene is another that should not be missed, as well as anything by CF Walker.
by JohnMD1022
Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Claret & Prairie Chicken
Replies: 25
Views: 27510

Re: Claret & Prairie Chicken

Ray, Howdy; Wow, talk about some 'voices' from the past ... Miss them all. hank I am checking in. It has been a long time. I had a bad shoulder injury, and could not tye, or fish. I finally got over that, but then life has been so busy for me. I had some family stuff going on, and now trying to pre...
by JohnMD1022
Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:44 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Day Drinking Caddis and beer review.
Replies: 11
Views: 29904

Re: Day Drinking Caddis and beer review.

It was a different world pre-winter Olympics, for sure. SLC was a small town, in feeling when we lived there, while now, it is just another city. I worked in the VA hospital while at the Univ, and as soon as all the breakfast cleanup was completed, all those nice LDS ladies would grab a cup of coffe...
by JohnMD1022
Tue Sep 19, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Day Drinking Caddis and beer review.
Replies: 11
Views: 29904

Re: Day Drinking Caddis and beer review.

There was nothing like that when I was at the Univ of Utah in SLC (1966-67). 3.2 in the grocery store, but you had to go to the state liquor for anything else. All alcohol was prohibited on campus which inspired us and another couple to sit in front of our married housing apt drinking our 3.2. When ...
by JohnMD1022
Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Winged Wet Flies
Topic: Union
Replies: 2
Views: 1025

Re: Union

More than 50 years ago, when I was a poor student at the University of Utah, the guys at the Aviary in Pioneer Park would save me Feathers they picked up while working..

I may discover some condor as I continue to reorganize stuff.
by JohnMD1022
Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:57 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
Topic: Caddis Fun
Replies: 3
Views: 14142

Re: Caddis Fun

There is a stretch on Warm Spring Creek outside Mackey, Idaho I call The Flat Of A Thousand Rainbows. Give me either of those “ugly” flies as a dropper off an Olive dun and I’ll stand there and catch those 15-18 inch rainbows (with a few Kokanee thrown in) til the cows come home.