flytire 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 absolutely asinine price http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...:IT&afsrc=1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
utyer 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 Yeah, when any similarly colored yarn will do just as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flytyer14 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 I agree with the statement "Absolutely asinine price". Who would even buy that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NJFlyMAn 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 Just what the listing stated.."It's a piece of history really to allow you to tie the pattern absolutely as it was intended." I think it would be great to have the original yarn and tye a few up and fish them, Also I would place a few in a shadow box with other flies that were worth collecting. So that price is well in reason from a collectors point..And yes, i agree with the post about getting yarn that will match it for less money. But to me it's just not the same as the original stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
narcodog 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 I'm proud to say I have a small piece of it and if i could get more I would. It's like in old days when JC ws hard to get everyone wanted some but few used what they got. You know it's like getting a dozen flies by the Dette's or some other old tyer, you wouldn't use them but you would show them to others. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gaeronf 0 Report post Posted March 5, 2011 Excuse my ignorance, but what is so special about it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluegill576 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 I agree with Gregfred. I don't see whats so special about it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
narcodog 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 477 is the yarn that was used by Sawyer to tie the killer bug. Chadwicks stopped producing it many years ago. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johny Utah 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 Read up on the "specialness" of this mythical yarn. Oh and that price is actually lower than the last time I saw a card on E-bay. That card went for over 200 pounds if im not mistaken. Last week a fellow had several cards on ebay the buy it now price was 60 pounds. I just search it and there all gone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 Read up on the "specialness" of this mythical yarn. enlighten us! :coffee: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSzymczyk 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 yes, it's about as asinine as spending $1500 on a bamboo rod, or $300 on a small trout reel which does nothing but hold line. Yet people do it every day. I'd be willing to bet that over the years, any existing samples of this material have changed color at least a little bit, and the person who spends so much on it isn't getting what was "original" anyhow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whatfly 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 Sorry, I don't get it. What does it matter to any of you how much someone wants to buy or sell something? Charge what the market will bear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johny Utah 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 Many people claim that the original yarn is far more effective than any substitute. Thus why so many people want it. I strongly believe that any gray wool yarn will do as long as you tie it with red copper wire. I also believe that a translucent fleshy pink tone of say pure rabbit would also be just as effective. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSzymczyk 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2011 Sorry, I don't get it. What does it matter to any of you how much someone wants to buy or sell something? Charge what the market will bear. It doesn't MATTER to me in any way whatsoever. I just happen to agree that it is foolish. I guess what does matter to me, is that I can't find any old crap laying around here for which someone would pay me a lot of money!! There still does not seem to be any bites on that auction, so apparently he is NOT charging what the market will bear I have not read Sawyer's account of the development of his Killer Bug. Knowing fishermen, I would guess he looked around for some grayish colored stuff to use for a simple SIMPLE nymph, and Chadwick's 477 just happened to be on someone's sewing table and he swiped a piece of it. It worked, so that's what he stuck with. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyfishing99 0 Report post Posted March 7, 2011 did you guys know that Sawyer's Grandson or some relation ties the PT and sells them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
