Re: [VFB] Tiny flies unrevealed...

2010-03-28 Thread Don Ordes
MeddelandeNick, I found the same thread, but in a plastic tube clothes-line, and it was the core material. Take out 2' and separate out a fiber and spool it on a midge vise. You know it's thin enough when a piece of it floats way. My bobbin tension is set just above free-fall. LOL DonO ---

Re: [VFB] Tiny flies unrevealed...

2010-03-28 Thread Niclas Runarsson
One thing that usually can be a pain is thread building. The "to be sure-wraps" aren't as welcome on a #32 as they might be on a #14 and only a couple of wraps you really can do without, can make a real difference to the fly. I started tying small stuff using the Danville Spiderweb 16/0 (30 denie

[VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

2010-03-28 Thread Jimmy D. Moore
"Often, I've been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar-scarred, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, but never, with a flyrod in my hand, have I been unhappy." Charles Kuralt ><ยบ> * JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,au