FLYMPH FORUM

Bill, I liked the hackle on this the first time I saw it, but didn't see your accurate id of it until my 5-6th view of this. I understand the upper covert term, but didn't realize the poult was a type of feather or a location. Can you explain that a bit. My impression was that a poult hackle was more a dour, pale dun color (as in a Poult Bloa), translated from somewhere in the UK as a type of dark cloud covered day. I'd be interested in hearing more about that. Although now that think about it Poult Bloa would be redundant by my definition.

w

That's the first time i ever saw a Pecory quill (bristle) used for a ribbing material...........pretty interesting. i have a bunch of that stuff "somewhere".......it's the ones Allan Podell used to sell as his Specially Dyed and Treated Qillls........after he got finished with them, they were water proof, and it was all about using them for quill bodies on dry flies. i got somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen colors.......i'll have to hunt those up again. i did do a bunch of flies with them and the bodies came out great and yes, they were water proof. You may be able to get ahold of Alan through the CFTG....Judy Darbee prolly has his number. Here's the last email addy i have for him..... apodell@stny.rr.com
Oh, also.....Allan was also our (CFTG) newsletter editor previous to the current one. So our current newsletter editor (Bud Bynack), might be able to put you in touch as well. BBynack@cs.com budbynack@verizon.com