Chuck,
1. Don't put a soaked fly in your box- period. I'll rust, rust other hooks,
and deform feathers. Press the fly between your palm and pants leg (or towel)
to remove the free water. Then put the fly on a drying patch- like you see on
fly vests. Wet flies in the box will rust the hooks underneath the materials
where you can't always see it. Some hook brands just get gnarly. Feathers and
hackles will set in weird ways. Steam will straighten out most sets.
2. Flies have to pass a lot of tests:
How it looks on the vise
How it looks wet
How it moves and/or fishes.
How it stands up to fish teeth and slime
How it lasts in the box for the next fishing outing.
Get all of these right and you're a tier par excellance.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Alexander
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 8:45 PM
Subject: [VFB] Marabou question
Folks: I have a question.. It is question # 1,876,594 for Me ROFL.... It has
to do with the marabou on Woolly Buggers mostly, but any fly that has a marabou
tail.. For example, i go out, fish a wooly bugger for a while, then, change
flies, put that fly in one of my plastic fly boxes...(and I lay them in the
boxes (or try to) as flat and straight as possible to dry out...Now, this past
week, I was gonna use a Chili Pepper, and the marabou tails on every one of
them was dry, hard, and crooked.. I dipped them in water, and the tails still
would not straighten out like when they were tied...Do I need to just lay them
on the deck part of my boat and let them dry BEFORE putting them back in the
fly box??? Or is there a secret to it??? Oh, and I was watching a Poul
Jorgenson DVD a little while ago, and he gave me a good idea... That man used
more salvia to tie flies than anybody I've ever seen LOL... So, I though.. I
need to see what the flies look like WET.. Cause that is how the fish will see
them..We tie flies, and look at it in the vise, and say "man, that will be a
pretty fly".. But wet, it may be the ugliest fly ever LOL...Thanks, Chuck
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