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Niklas Dahlin
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by Niklas Dahlin » Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:19 pm
Evening gents..
Playing around with some true materials this weekend. Came up with some decent proborably fishcatching Quillies..
Later
Nik
Red Quill & Partridge
Light Quill & Partridge
The killing duo..

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skunkaroo
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by skunkaroo » Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:32 pm
Very nice.
I'm a bit weak on quill bodies, but here's one I've tied and fished over the last four months or so. Seems to work well for small caddis hatches:
Night quill
Aaron
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Niklas Dahlin
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by Niklas Dahlin » Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:45 pm
skunkaroo wrote:Very nice.
I'm a bit weak on quill bodies, but here's one I've tied and fished over the last four months or so. Seems to work well for small caddis hatches:
Night quill
Aaron
Peacock quill, dyed?
Looks great.../Nik
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Joe Billingsley
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by Joe Billingsley » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:35 pm
Niklas,
Beautiful flies. Well done.
I tied up some quill-bodied wets a few months ago, but I ran a very thin amount of Flexament down the quills before I wrapped them, let it get sticky, lightly touched dubbed them, and then wrapped them. It gave the bodies a very nice halo effect. I finally got to try them out a couple of weeks ago and they were very effective. I am a big fan of quill bodied flies.
Joe
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letumgo
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by letumgo » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:31 pm
Excellent spiders! I love the look of the segmented quill abdomens. Beautiful work and terrific photography, too. Thanks for sharing.
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by letumgo » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:32 pm
PS - Please include detailed materials listing so we can add some of these to our fly boxes...

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RnF
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by RnF » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:18 pm
These indeed look fantastic, that is some nice clean tying. Love them!
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by DOUGSDEN » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:24 pm
NIK,
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS! NOTHING SAYS BUGGY LOOKING LIKE QUILL AND PEACOCK AND IN COMBINATION....WOW! YOU DO EXCELLENT WORK AND THE PHOTOGRAPHY IS GREAT! THE COLORS ON THE QUILLS IS WONDERFUL. I HAVE TROUBLE SOMETIMES PICKING OUT THE RIGHT COLORS. YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB WITH THIS. WHEN DO THE CLASSES IN QUILL START?
DOUGSDEN
Fish when you can, not when you should! Anything short of this is just a disaster.
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skunkaroo
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by skunkaroo » Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:45 pm
Niklas Dahlin wrote:
Peacock quill, dyed?
Looks great.../Nik
No. Just bad herl. Yours are perfect.
Aaron
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by VERN-O » Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:50 am
these are very nice like....I like the peacock in front and behind the hackle.
Do you guys coat the herl bodies with anything after tying?....like Sally Hansen or super glue?