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That’s a good idea captain. I’ll have to remember that. Even a beat up fly that caught 20 fish on one of those perfect evenings

Hi everyone, I’m wanting to create a shadow box of Pennsylvania mayflies for my tying area. I was recently at the Catskills fly fishing museum and got inspired by all the neat displays. my question when it comes to this is in regards to fly size. When creating a shadow box do you tie flies on hook sizes typically larger than normal for better display? So instead of a sulpher on size 14 , would you tie it on a size 10 or 12. Also do you tie all the flies the same size or do you make them true to size? If I wanted a BWO in there would I tie it on the size 20 hook!? Would that then look wierd next to a size 10 green drake? Just looking for thoughts and opinions, never done this before.

I honestly never struggled with davies accent , I feel he is pretty clear but I have heard others complain

I like the location of the hot spot

I think ithe hook would work fine but bugs come in all different sizes so it just depends if there is a specific insect that he is trying to imitate, 12- 18 are pretty common sizes. A 6/0 thread will work fine for a size 12. I find a 8/0 thread tends to be a good size for just about anything you will tie for trout.

Very kind of you old hat!

What your Looking at in that picture is a stripped peacock quill taken from a peacock eye. Davie mcphail ties a lot in this style and is you tube videos would be a big help... there are a lot of videos out there too on how to strip peacock quill.

Lol... just the internet guys

Thanks for the info mike,keep posting pictures as they turn out! I also use liquid fusion on my poppers. Lately Ive been lazy and doing the double barrel poppers with just some markers and no top coat. Fish crush them and they float great

Mike, what do you end up coating your poppers with? I have really enjoyed those double barrel bodies. They fish well

Yea you can pick up a hen saddle or neck pretty cheap in a variety of colors

Thanks for the advise guys, I visited two of my local shops today and neither had whole skins...did end up buying some precut strips, that will get me by for now

Wow that's a great resource, another thumbs up on the hobby lobby, didn't think of that will check mine out

I'm wanting to buy some whole rabbit skins for cutting into strips/dubbing blends. Two questions 1. Does anyone know a good source? I've done some google searches, best buy I have found is 10 bucks a hide which seems reasonable but they didn't have a lot of colors which leads me to my second questions 2. How easy is it to dye a white skin to get your desired color. I have not dyed anything before I would prefer to not have to dye if I could find some good colors on a whole skin for reasonable

Picked my first tomato today!