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--- On Tue, 7/28/09, Alan Di Somma <phxflyt...@cox.net> wrote:
From: Alan Di Somma <phxflyt...@cox.net>
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry fly update
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 9:03 PM
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Did you enjoy her tying?
I did.
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
Phoenix, Mexico's second largest city....
Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his
tail.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Joyce
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:28
PM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry fly
update
thanks for the link. Joyce
http://www.ienner.com/pages/_flyfishing_pf,html/flyfish_dette1.html
I remember watching Lee Wulff tie his Royal Wulff at
one of our club meeting a long time ago, without any tools except his hands
and watching Mary Dettes tie reminded me of that. Quite an
experience....
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
Phoenix, Mexico's second largest city....
Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his
tail.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Joyce
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:45
PM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry fly
update
Alan where did you find the video of Mary Dettes
tying? I'd love to learn from it. Thanks. Joyce
----- Original Message -----
From:
Alan Di
Somma
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:03
AM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry fly
update
Thanks Nick.
I haven't tied since the SowBug in 2004 so I am a
little rusty to say the least.
I have only tied about 15 dozen flies the past
month trying to get some flies tied for my trip to Alaska in
Sept.
I have been getting better and faster and they are
looking better the more I tie.
The biggest problem is getting the proportions
correct.
Peggy's swap is for Catskill Dry Flies. That is a
whole nother ball game.
Tiny upright wings and heavy hackle really gets
you to be exact.
I watched a video of Mary Dettes tying and she
does not use a bobbin or whip finisher.
I plan on using both and a very strong magnifying
glass to even see that tiny a hook.
I actually have some 28's but I would never think
of tying a dry fly on a hook that small.
At least not for a couple of more years of
tying.
Thanks for the encouraging words, and yes I will
do my best no matter what kind or size of swap I am in.
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
Phoenix, Mexico's second largest city....
Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his
tail.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Niclas Runarsson
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 6:29
AM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry
fly update
Hoping for noone to get disappointed is
not real swap thinking, Mr. Di Somma. Let me tell you about some real
swap thinking:
Right this moment, I'm
hosting 'On the Edge To Nothing Swap
2009' at the (Swedish) 'Edge FlyFishing
Forum'... size #20 and smaller. And now I have seen some
true swap thinking. This has become something I will use as an
example
in the future, when it's time for the old "A swap isn't a contest.
It's all about effort." explanation.
As a fly-fishing forum, this one differs a
lot from VFB. Most of the talk is about fly-fishing and not
really much about tying. Few of the tyers are advanced tyers. I
wanted to see how much they really liked to tie tiny
flies themselves so I invited them to a swap, but I took it
"easy" and set the bar at #20... with a three months tying time
(partly to be able to even fill the list). It took me by surprise, to
say the least. The list of 12 participants was filled in less
than 24 hrs... and most of the guys went out to buy hooks
to even be able to participate. (A few of them
didn't even know where to find such small hooks when signing
up.).Only
one of them chose to tie on a #20, as "large" as possible. The rest
went down to #24 and smaller. (This #20 tyer later had to drop out...
but less than 15 minutes after announcing it a new guy
stepped in, coming in with a #28 PT nymph.) One of them
bought #22's... as "practice hooks", so the #26's that he also bought
wouldn't come as a shock. All this
talk about buying hooks" was really nice to see. It was
new, but they were ready to try. But it didn't stop with
hooks. Two guys had some problems. But instead of dropping out or
going for larger hooks, one of them got himself new
glasses... and another bought a new vise!!! "Give up??? - No
way!!!" LOL
This turned out to be more than checking out
the midge interest. It also became a check how people felt about
swapping... and here it wasn't any "No, I can't do good enough to
swap." Here we had some TRUE swap
thinking: "I'm not afraid... it's effort that counts.", "It might not
be the best... but it sure will be fun." The
swap has been going on for two months now and the talk in the
thread is the same: "Holy smoke, this was fiddly... but WOW it was
fun!", "WHY haven't I tried this before???" etc. Some of these guys
are guys who have complimented the midges I've posted earlier and
then said things like "I wouldn't be able to tie in the thread on
a hook that size" when I've asked "Why not try it
yourself?".
It really gives me a warm feeling reading
through the swap thread (and I have read it more than once... just
for
the fun of it).
When you WANT to give... then you're
ready to swap. Same effort from everyone will make noone give less
than the other.
/Nick
From: phxflyt...@cox.net
To:
vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VFB] Re: Catskill Dry fly
update
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:40:39 -0700
Peggy:
I should have my tying skills up a
little higher then they are now so I would like to try this
swap.
I'm not sure yet what I will tie but I
sure would like to be in it, with these great tiers.
I hope no one will be disapointed with
my tying.
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
Phoenix, Mexico's second largest city....
Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag
his tail.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Peggy Brenner
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009
8:01 PM
Subject: [VFB] Catskill Dry
fly update
And let's try our luck in the path Mary Dette and
all the famous Catskill Dry Tyers laid for us with a swap, room
for 10 and not due till December. And to keep it a real
stretch of our skills let's try for small dries, 16 and under,
all
levels of tyers.
1 Peggy B Condor
2 Neville
Gosling
3 George Vincent
4 Michael
Bliss
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Peggy Brenner
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