vincent p. norris wrote:
I hope you saved some feathers. In his _Tying Small Flies_, Ed Engle
has a couple of patterns calling for blue-gold feathers.


Many of you have seen the cool surreal fishing related paintings in
Abe's. The artist is a cool guy named Dave Carpenter. He's a San Juan
veteran and he loves to fish downstream of Baetis Bend. He told me
that there was a fly that he developed that was very popular for a few
years way back. It was called "pearl's revenge" and to tie the
official pattern, you needed a feather from his Macaw, Pearl. Pearl's
long gone but Dave still has some of the feathers.

bruce h