Alan,
The Chili Peppers did real well in Alaska.
Tony
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, 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: Friday, July 31, 2009, 7:00 PM
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Joyce:
I just wanted to thank you for the excellent info you gave
me on dying with Kool Aid.
I dyed some rabbit, artic fox and some grisley hackle and
they all came out wonderful.
I never experimented with trying to make burnt orange for
Chili Peppers because I have been told that the fish in Alaska don't want
anything burnt. They prefer it bright.....
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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