You know you guys are just terrible, especially joaniebo, narcobobber, dana, bearbutt, PhilA. It's no wonder I have such a tough time finding fly tying materials to hoard. :D How the hell did I get roped into this?--LOL I was thinking recently how the Coronavirus and other viral nasties are being t...

I'd suggest a waterhen from Cookshill. Buy two while you're at it. Steve takes credit cards.

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ForumGhillie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:42 pm

Of course, you Easterners have milder snowstorms than we do.

...Said by a mid-westerner who never had his butt buried by a N'easter, lol.

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I am down to a 1x2 patch of fur from a Muskrat I trapped maybe 45 years ago. Between salt, borax and the sun that hide lasted longer than the 12 year old that trapped it, thought it would. ....... I could never use muskrat from a bag, like I do opossum, rabbit, and squirrel. Holding a muskrat hide ...

Theroe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:35 am Can you shed some light on the method of "Scotch Tied Hackle"?

I had always thought that meant tying while under the influence of Laphroaig?


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Yeah--Phil has it--"Pale Furnace". I also checked Jennings in addition to Elder--same result. I like "Ginger Furnace" though--nice name for a porn star maybe?--but this is a family website, so we aren't going in that direction. But we will wait and see what Dana has to say about ...

Another thought: if this spool is as early as it appears to be, it would reinforce the argument for 6a. When Edmonds and Lee published Brook and River Trouting in 1916, there was no 19 on their chart--colors stopped at 18. I'm not sure when 19 was introduced, so that's something we'd need to sort ou...

I'd guess 6a--hotsy-totsy orange.

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I used to punt on the river Cam, which is in Cambridge, Ah-ha! Cambridge! That explains a lot. At Oxford we always considered Cambridge to be a very good second choice. But one thing they never figured out there was how to punt properly--doing it more or less from the wrong end of the punt. Robert ...

That's pretty good, John--nice fuzzy factor. Here's a few tied by Mr. Fuzzy:






And Mr. Fuzzy himself with his charming smile (from the book coming your way....)




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