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My favorite neck is a dark rusty dun from Collins it is just outstanding. I also have some cree that I like quite well.

difficult to explain, but you know it when you see it!

Yup, I agree. It's like porno can't tell what is but you know when you see it.

They are made and marketed by Daiichi.

Captain hook .com

Jstockard.com

I am in the same catagory as the previous posters. I have both a Renzetti Traveler and a Regal that I almost stole on Ebay. I very seldom use the rotary function. About the only time I use it is to check the far side of the fly. I still have my Thompson "A" attached to my desk. I replaces the big jaws with the midge jaws and like it very well.

I use Zelon and on occasions darlon.

There are differences in the Elk and deer and difference between white tail and mule or black tail. Deer hair on certain parts of the body are more hollow so the float and flair better. Elk hair is larger so it flairs differently. I use elk for caddis but for sparkle duns I use deer. Chis Helms is the man on hair look up his site.

I have a "Fly Box", big and heavy but does the trick.

Try not to buy one of those kits, you will be spending more than you need. Go to Stockards web and pick what you need. Bobbins, scissors, hackle pliers, dubbing needle, whip finisher.

I use beaver for all of my dry flies.

Never put your flag up!!!

What is the site? I could search but I am lazy and besided flytyer will undoubtibly do the search for me. :hyst:

 

 

 

Hello, my site is www.allenflyfishing.com

 

 

 

Thanks

http://www.allenflyfishing.com

On small to med size streams I like to use a Peter Ross size 10 or 12

On my Renzetti I have a 6 and an 8in. on the Regal it is 6in.

The base for the Regal is 7x4

I have a base that I got from Cabelas it is 51/2 x 31/2

For a time I used one of those vises that are made in India and it worked fine. One of the vises I have now is Regal and I have put 22's in the jaws and had no problem so far.

I use a Pentex Optio and agree with A$G lighting is the key.

Use rubber cement, same thing

You can see a compete description on the change at Chris Helms' site http://www.whitetailflytieing.com

Get the waxed, it behaves much better. Either Uni or Danville would be fine.

I have several, I think my favorite is the Wasatch, ceramic. But the Materelli works very well also. Silk and wax is a great medium to work with.

If you are talking about the brand new ones, no. If you are asking about the boots from last year, yes. I have used and like them, no problems. If you do decide to get them be sure to try them on. I usually wear an 81/2 - nine shoe and had to go to an 11.

I'm not into production tying and I have more flies than I'll ever use but I still tie 1 or 2 every night. The last few nights I have been trying to get my flies straightened out as they are just a mess. My boxes are full and I have had to buy more storage boxes. I guess it's time to start giving some away again.

Yes I'll check those books out.Thanks DOG.I found a fella on YOUTUBE who ties an amazing Dry fly his name is Davie McPhail and the video is called"Tying a spent gnat".Absolutely beautiful and worth taking a look.I've included a pic. of one of my nymphs-it's a crawler-and I've never missed with it.

What's "Gordon" full name?

 

Theodore Gordon, the father of dry fly fishing in the colony's.

If you read books by Hewitt, skaters and spiders, Dette and Darby, Gordon, Rube Cross. You will gain a wealth of knowledge on drys. Art Flick has a great book and although he was not as meticulous as Darby and Dette in his tying he developed some great patterns. Hewitt was a very observant individual and conducted many experiments on flies. If you look at "A Trout and Salmon Fisherman" for seventy-five years he has numerous photo's albeit crude, that will show one how a fly sits on the water and water a trout may see.

On of the problems that many "new" fly fishers is they are not aware of the history or the trial and errors that the old tyers went through to make there products better. They were professionals that they depended on for income so they like everyone else tied and discarded many flies because the proportions were not correct.

It disturbs me when folks popo cane or natural materials over plastic and synthetics that the old stuff is blahzah(sic) and they don't try to use them. Would have the old tyers used new material, you bet they would have and they did as time went on. Harry Darby spent years perfecting his hackle. As did Doc Fried and the two of them along with a few others have given us the great hackle that we have available today. Whiting hackle has descendants to those great old tyers.

Gordon adapted English flies to the new world as far as the bugs he fished for he them improved on what he first tied. If you would look at some of the flies he tied you would say how the heck did he ever catch fish with them, cause they are really crude compared to what we tie today.