Materials and beginning of the month tying (photos added) and edited with correct text.
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 7:31 am
Been tying a bit lately. Ordered and received my 1st of the month tying materials. Really have had great service from the places I have been using; Sightcast Fishing, Saltwaterflies.com, and Feathercraft. The only issues I have had is inconsistencies in some of the materials with a big time emphasis on the craftfur. I ordered a fair amount as I am still tying up a bunch of redfish crack style flies. Trying to get the colors I wanted I ordered from two different places. Just the run of the mill standard “extra select” stuff from Hareline Dubbin. Some of it has a ton of “underfur” while some does not. Three packages had one “rug” while two of the packages had two and a package of cream fur had three rugs. The olive and tan seem really silky and straight while the cream was slightly crinkly and coarse and boy was that stuff full of static; had to use two dryer sheets to get it to lay down.
Anyway tied up some crack flies, experimenting a little with a predominately shell pink variety using a variety of brushes between the Sightcast shrimp pink and an E.P. 2” foxy brush in Shrimp pink. Also did a few seaducer type flies as well as Vlaho’s sandflea. I need to get some Gamakatsu B10s in #2 as there is a shrimp pattern I’d like to try. I’ll post some pictures a little later.
This is what I meant to say . Not sure how the other stuff got on here that was from a much earlier post.
Anyway tied up some crack flies, experimenting a little with a predominately shell pink variety using a variety of brushes between the Sightcast shrimp pink and an E.P. 2” foxy brush in Shrimp pink. Also did a few seaducer type flies as well as Vlaho’s sandflea. I need to get some Gamakatsu B10s in #2 as there is a shrimp pattern I’d like to try. I’ll post some pictures a little later.
This is what I meant to say . Not sure how the other stuff got on here that was from a much earlier post.