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Swannundace "D" lace was the for runner to all of them came out in the 60's. Guy in jersey had some really good colors either in solid or trans-lucent. I still have a lot for sale.

Philly wissahickon midge I know where that was taken from. never fished it though my buddy use to. some say there are a few wild ones in there yet.

I have 9,10,12x tippet for small flies and a lot of these for fishing if I ever decide to go back to small fly fishing. where I am a size 16 is smallest I go now and size 12 is average to size 6 largest

10-12 weeks then they are caped out for feathers. commercials birds are used in pet foods not human. I prefer to wait till they are 1 year old letting them molt at least once. I had a rooster that went from dun colored wings and saddle to pure white after molting, My cree is 4 now and has turned darker with age.

28 royal, 26 bwo, 28 biot emerger, 28 trico, and a trio of bead head emergers in 26

top hook is a mustad #22 dry and bottom one is a 18 gap with a large eye in gold, I have over a 1000 of these. last pic is of what I have left in mustad 28's

just ordered

The royal wulff is a size 28 mustad and proportioned just right

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yep should be .010 norm

Have over 60,000 patterns between books, magazines, Data Bases, on line. never will be able to tie them all because I add to this almost daily. several patterns of mine have been published over the years too. here is sample of one of mine

My own blends for my shop

these are 6" long or more

this is one way I do it, my boat box, covers everything from blue-gill to small musky flies.

I use 0.10 all the way down to 18 for nymphs and wets its fine enough. never in 50+ years have I seen anything less

air brush black nose dace

Epourus nymph from Schweiberts book " matching the Hatch"

wets in 8, 9 and 10's

garter getting ready to shed and a rattler next to kayak (5 ft.)

yes I do have a sign

part 3 desk

part 2 rest of dining room, still more in basement mostly extra large bins with material I collected over 50 years.

being single for a long time, the room has expanded through the house, starting in the living room then to kitchen then whole dining room.

just a few different ones: Chemung river bugger, march brown, Hendrickson wets, grannoms, and Magee wets

box of drakes