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• In the rare case when “inmate” coffee is an asset

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  It was a cup of coffee that fixed my issues with upland birds and waterfowl feathers. Cal Bird had a taste for strong brew and the shop’s pot was always bubbling .. I was usually the first person at the shop and figured that if one of those neatly trimmed Styrofoam cups made the brownish “ick” we drank ...
  4 days ago

• From the mouths of Babes comes Thread Wisdom

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  With the casting club some four miles distant the round trip on a stingray was reserved for weekends. Weekdays it was the bathtub as trout stream surrogate. A young lad learning to tie flies has to make due. Each time the UPS truck squealed to a stop out front it disgorged some new material from Dan Bailey’s or ...
  1 week ago

• Singlebarbed Reviews the Ultimate Stocking Stuffer: The New Scientific Angling, Trout and Ultraviolet Vision

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  With our faddish nature I’m always surprised fishermen aren’t more fashion conscious. Our weakness has always revolved around something new as a wholesale fix for all our fishing ailments. In the Eighties it was Polypropylene – lighter than air and a couple of turns on a hook shank would make a fly float all ...
  1 week ago

• Big on Yarn but even bigger on frugal

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  I see one of those “coat of many colors” yarns and I can’t dig the pocketbook out fast enough. The Good News is these mixed-color yarns are all the rage, the Bad News is fashion is capable of turning on its heel quicker than we can respond. I use a lot of mohair because it’s a cheap and plentiful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fly Tying With Waterfowl Feathers (Pleasing, Barred and Natural)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 127
  Mallard, Teal, Wedgeon, Gadwall are water fowl birds that produce barred feathers (in varying degrees depending upon the bird) which provide a pleasing natural element to patterns. The feathers can come died, but the natural tones are most pleasing to me for streamer patterns. These feathers are not wound on as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s like mascara, color can enhance and detract

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  My first commercial order was for two dozen Adams . I was 16 at the time, and quality control was letting the glue dry and giving it a couple of half hearted tugs – followed by a rigorous review of proportions. By the time I’d completed 24 flies that passed muster I’d actually tied about 60 – and suffering ...
  2 weeks ago

• The next Great Fingernail Removal System

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  My lampooning of dry fly fishermen is well documented, so I thought I’d take my comeuppance like a Man… I’ve got a half dozen experimental colors of “Dubbing X” made, about an ounce of each, all hand made at the cost of most of my fingernails – lot’s of swearing, and the skin of both forefingers… ...
  3 weeks ago

• Steely resolve in the face of the Perfect Feather

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  Per request I’ll continue to post additional fly beautification tips in a weekly format. These will comprise hardscrabble lessons learned somewhere after beginner and before complete mastery . Most tiers that tiptoe around the craft use their fishing instincts when no instructor or book is available. Most of us ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part Last – Singlebarbed teaches the beauty secrets of the Shao-Lin Masters

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  As we mentioned in Parts 1 & 2 , the measure of true fly beauty is held by fish not humans. Unfortunately with you averaging  9 days afield your flies are viewed most by people, and suffering their continual criticisms can make a fly tyer resign himself to please both anglers and quarry. … and in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Genetic Dry fly hackle meets the Vegi-Matic

  
  Singlebarbed — Authority: 422
  If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of the genetic hackle business – how years of careful selection and good genes yields those yard-long saddle hackles and expensive rooster necks – you won’t find any of that here… Instead, we’ll show you how those lengthy saddles are harvested, and how ...
  4 weeks ago

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