On 2/17/2011 5:02 PM, Don Ordes wrote:
Peggy,
1. Can a Catshill fly be tied with Wingers for the wings? I've seen some
patterns on the web where they used feather tips that were more
fan-shaped, and the Wingers look better.
I'll be using Wingers for mine, realized this is the way to go, if you
use all the tips on a saddle you can't use the rest for streamers.
2. Is it OK to rope-dub the body with soft segments, rather than the
smooth dubbed bodies I see in the pictures.
this is a great opportunity to use rope dubbing, I know Mary Dette uses
what she calls a noodle dub, different technique but soft segments.
3. I want to use speckled Cd'L for the tails and speckled champagne
badger hackles, so nothing on the fly will be truly original, but it
will be tied like the original.
I'll use these, have bunches of CDC from a spanish guy I sat next to at
symposium, nice specks on the tails.
They could be 'Neuvo Catskill' dry flies, traditional but new.
And a chance to try out our dry fly skill's, for myself I usually tie up
large streamers, so this is a test run.
Peggy
DonO
----- Original Message -----
*From:* J Balmer <mailto:jbal...@betadigm.com>
*To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com <mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:49 PM
*Subject:* RE: [VFB] Catskill flies
According to some, Catskill dry flies are either “tied in the style
of, or specifically for the Catskill River.” The Darbees, Dettes etc
allegedly tied in the style of Rube Cross. I wasn’t there so I’ll go
w/ whatever you all decide. I’ve seen Catskill dries tied w/ & w/out
a wing, & w/ various lengths of hackle, but I’m a relative newbie to
tying.
J
*From:*vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com]
*On Behalf Of *Rene Zillmann
*Sent:* Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:15 PM
*To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* [VFB] Catskill flies
Hi List,
for Peggy's swap, someone asked about what catskill flies are. I
found this page on faol:
http://flyanglersonline.com/features/oldflies/part359.php
Some very interesting things:
* The flies are tied by Elsie Darbee, look at the proportions!
The hackles are oversized.
* Look at the American March Brown: Rope dubbed? At least clear
segmentation in an dubbed body!
* Flies have no wings
Rene
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Peggy Brenner
http://pbandj.us/SixSistersFlybox/
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