Water's too cold (and most of it too hard) for fishing, so my tying buddies
and I went to the FFU show in Danbury today to prepare for the flytying
cabin fever season. I was mainly looking for ideas for a fly to tie for the
GFS, and was thinking mainly along the lines of a new variation on the olive
damselfly nymph theme, and I ran into that ******* Tom Littleton (and the
Handyman, but it's Tom that screwed my budget and sanity). I have now
acquired two packets of dyed peccary quills (sold by Allan Podell, a former
denizen of this rathole). Tom of course had way more... So now I'm
thinking about quill bodied snowshoe duns (or something) so I can practice
with these quills. These things look really nice - good colors,
variegation, tough as nails. Of course I also bought an olive Brahma hen
pelt so I have stuff for the damsels... Crap. All of it crap. Nice crap
though.

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