Tasmanian Devil
 

In Doug Swisher's book about backcountry fishing in Florida he mentions a tying
material called Tasmanian Devil that he uses in white shrimp patterns. He
suggests lambs wool as a substitute, but I'm trying to figure out what the
original is.

Anybody know?

Thanks

Chas
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In Doug Swisher's book about backcountry fishing in Florida he mentions a tying
material called Tasmanian Devil that he uses in white shrimp patterns. He
suggests lambs wool as a substitute, but I'm trying to figure out what the
original is.

Anybody know?



This?
http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.ns...AN-5358KH?open


Kevin
(well, this
http://tazworld.com/taz/t3.gif
would have been too obvious)
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Kevin Vang wrote:
In article ,
says...
In Doug Swisher's book about backcountry fishing in Florida he mentions a
tying
material called Tasmanian Devil that he uses in white shrimp patterns. He
suggests lambs wool as a substitute, but I'm trying to figure out what the
original is.

Anybody know?



This?
http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.ns...AN-5358KH?open


Kevin

Good to hear from you Kevin.

That is the animal, but I suspect the long white hairs I'm seeing in the
pictures of the fly are of some other origin. My guess is it's a particular
type of craft fur.

Thanks,

Chas
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chas wrote in message ...
In Doug Swisher's book about backcountry fishing in Florida he mentions a tying
material called Tasmanian Devil that he uses in white shrimp patterns. He
suggests lambs wool as a substitute, but I'm trying to figure out what the
original is.

Anybody know?

Thanks

Chas
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It's good to know lamb's wool is recommended sub. The material he is
talking about is some
sort of long-fibred synthetic but I've not seen it for sale here.

The Tassie Devil material in Aust. Best Trout Flys ... I'll dig it out
over the weekend (time for the library
to come out of boxes again anyway)

Steve

chas wrote:
In Doug Swisher's book about backcountry fishing in Florida he mentions a
tying
material called Tasmanian Devil that he uses in white shrimp patterns. He
suggests lambs wool as a substitute, but I'm trying to figure out what the
original is.

Anybody know?

Thanks

Chas
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I went back to google and put in Doug Swisher. It came back with
www.dougswisher.com, and on that site I found the tasmanian devil material for
sale. Funny that I couldn't find it by searching for Tasmanian Devil Material.

Still no details on what it is, but it looks like a craft fur type artificial.

Chas
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chas wrote in message ...


I went back to google and put in Doug Swisher. It came back with
www.dougswisher.com, and on that site I found the tasmanian devil material for
sale. Funny that I couldn't find it by searching for Tasmanian Devil Material.

Still no details on what it is, but it looks like a craft fur type artificial.

Chas
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A check of the book showed the Swisher monicker (Is Swisher his
real name ;-). He Floated some "Devil Leech" patterns on a dirty
day in Tassie (One of those no-one else caught a fish type of days) .

Anyway, details on the material are scant with lambs wool sub.
Good in brown, black and green.

The finished Devil Leech is a lot like a BMS - Bullen Merrie Special
(or Helter Skelter to give it the original name) though the tying
method is different. The material used for BMS/HS is often
Partridge SLF hanks - not hte same as the Devil hair but
a potentially useful sub.

Steve