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Cree Subsitutes!!!
Started by TitanFlies, Feb 26 2010 07:07 PM
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 09:04 PM
Here's a database submission from Mice, it uses Cree for the body hackle and it looks killer. Of course, anything Mice does looks other-worldly.
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http://www.flytyingf...attern9437.html
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34 downloads
"If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists." -Frank Cobb
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Posted 28 February 2010 - 02:49 AM
Well that is sure pretty!
The great thing about catch & release is that the fish can live to grow even larger.
In fact, I've known some fish to grow quite a bit larger before the fisherman even returned home.
In fact, I've known some fish to grow quite a bit larger before the fisherman even returned home.
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Posted 01 March 2010 - 10:54 AM
Hi TitanFlies,
You've gotten some great posts to this thread so we'll just add an idea rather than a feather source. Why not make your own Cree hackle? On the hook this home-made color is very difficult to tell from the real thing. Here is how it is done:
Take a grizzly pelt (cape or saddle) and bleach it slightly so the barring changes color from black to ginger/brownish. Wash and dry the pelt then select one feather and use a felt tip (Sharpie or other color-fast) black marker to draw bars across the feather at the point where the ginger barring meets the white. On the hook it's darned near impossible to tell from the real thing.
Bleach solution: 2 parts NON-SUDSING ammonia and 1 part hydrogen peroxide. If you use the low percent solution of hydrogen peroxide from a drug store (3% I think) it can take several days to bleach a pelt but if you get the stronger solution at a beauty supply store it works much faster; often doing its job in less than a day. NOTE: Do Not use regular sudsing ammonia, it will make a real mess out of your feathers. Also, do not use regular wash bleach unless you want all the tips on the feather fibers to burn off. You can find the bleaching process on our Web site. Take care & ...
Tight Lines - Gretchen & Al Beatty
www.btsflyfishing.com
You've gotten some great posts to this thread so we'll just add an idea rather than a feather source. Why not make your own Cree hackle? On the hook this home-made color is very difficult to tell from the real thing. Here is how it is done:
Take a grizzly pelt (cape or saddle) and bleach it slightly so the barring changes color from black to ginger/brownish. Wash and dry the pelt then select one feather and use a felt tip (Sharpie or other color-fast) black marker to draw bars across the feather at the point where the ginger barring meets the white. On the hook it's darned near impossible to tell from the real thing.
Bleach solution: 2 parts NON-SUDSING ammonia and 1 part hydrogen peroxide. If you use the low percent solution of hydrogen peroxide from a drug store (3% I think) it can take several days to bleach a pelt but if you get the stronger solution at a beauty supply store it works much faster; often doing its job in less than a day. NOTE: Do Not use regular sudsing ammonia, it will make a real mess out of your feathers. Also, do not use regular wash bleach unless you want all the tips on the feather fibers to burn off. You can find the bleaching process on our Web site. Take care & ...
Tight Lines - Gretchen & Al Beatty
www.btsflyfishing.com
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Posted 01 March 2010 - 11:04 AM
QUOTE (Al Beatty @ Mar 1 2010, 09:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi TitanFlies,
You've gotten some great posts to this thread so we'll just add an idea rather than a feather source. Why not make your own Cree hackle? On the hook this home-made color is very difficult to tell from the real thing. Here is how it is done:
Take a grizzly pelt (cape or saddle) and bleach it slightly so the barring changes color from black to ginger/brownish. Wash and dry the pelt then select one feather and use a felt tip (Sharpie or other color-fast) black marker to draw bars across the feather at the point where the ginger barring meets the white. On the hook it's darned near impossible to tell from the real thing.
Bleach solution: 2 parts NON-SUDSING ammonia and 1 part hydrogen peroxide. If you use the low percent solution of hydrogen peroxide from a drug store (3% I think) it can take several days to bleach a pelt but if you get the stronger solution at a beauty supply store it works much faster; often doing its job in less than a day. NOTE: Do Not use regular sudsing ammonia, it will make a real mess out of your feathers. Also, do not use regular wash bleach unless you want all the tips on the feather fibers to burn off. You can find the bleaching process on our Web site. Take care & ...
Tight Lines - Gretchen & Al Beatty
www.btsflyfishing.com
You've gotten some great posts to this thread so we'll just add an idea rather than a feather source. Why not make your own Cree hackle? On the hook this home-made color is very difficult to tell from the real thing. Here is how it is done:
Take a grizzly pelt (cape or saddle) and bleach it slightly so the barring changes color from black to ginger/brownish. Wash and dry the pelt then select one feather and use a felt tip (Sharpie or other color-fast) black marker to draw bars across the feather at the point where the ginger barring meets the white. On the hook it's darned near impossible to tell from the real thing.
Bleach solution: 2 parts NON-SUDSING ammonia and 1 part hydrogen peroxide. If you use the low percent solution of hydrogen peroxide from a drug store (3% I think) it can take several days to bleach a pelt but if you get the stronger solution at a beauty supply store it works much faster; often doing its job in less than a day. NOTE: Do Not use regular sudsing ammonia, it will make a real mess out of your feathers. Also, do not use regular wash bleach unless you want all the tips on the feather fibers to burn off. You can find the bleaching process on our Web site. Take care & ...
Tight Lines - Gretchen & Al Beatty
www.btsflyfishing.com
WOW! I never would have thought of that! Thanks Mr. Beatty!
"If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists." -Frank Cobb
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Posted 01 March 2010 - 04:59 PM
Brilliant Beattys....the power of the pen!
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Posted 01 March 2010 - 08:49 PM
Great idea... I once tried using a light brown marker across the edge of the white, but didn't care for how it turned out. Never thought of trying it this way.
The great thing about catch & release is that the fish can live to grow even larger.
In fact, I've known some fish to grow quite a bit larger before the fisherman even returned home.
In fact, I've known some fish to grow quite a bit larger before the fisherman even returned home.
