Australian possum

Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody knows a source of australian possum skins -
like what you use for dubbing on an Ausable Wulff?

Pete Collin

"Peter A. Collin" wrote in news:461235df$0
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Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody knows a source of australian possum skins -
like what you use for dubbing on an Ausable Wulff?

Pete Collin


Don't know a source, but if ya need someone to stain 'em with urine for
you...

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"Peter A. Collin" wrote in news:461235df$0
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Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody knows a source of australian possum skins -
like what you use for dubbing on an Ausable Wulff?

Pete Collin


Don't know a source, but if ya need someone to stain 'em with urine for
you...


Actually, every once in a while I buy a small patch at Coleman's for tying
Bird's Nests, but he doesn't always have it.

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possums are a curse in New Zealand, where they eat (defenseless) bird
eggs.
....and where providing possum and stoat skins is a public service.

found this one with Google. Didn't read the whole thread.
Maybe someone else mentioned it too:

http://www.chichesterinc.com/Opossum-Australian.htm

On Apr 8, 8:30 am, "salmobytes" wrote:
possums are a curse in New Zealand, where they eat (defenseless) bird
eggs.
...and where providing possum and stoat skins is a public service.

found this one with Google. Didn't read the whole thread.
Maybe someone else mentioned it too:

http://www.chichesterinc.com/Opossum-Australian.htm

# 1 daughter did a semester of work-study in New Zealand. (Darn All
I ever managed to get in school was work, work and study within 40
miles of school)
Anyway part of the program involved working a Kiwi preserve. The
Kiwis are endangered because of the possums, foxes, norway rats,
ferral cats and other introduced species. The people running the
preserves were constatnly fighting these introduced vermin. They had
to trap and poison the beast; All of them live in very dense brush/
forest and you can't just go out and shoot them.
Her job was to go out all night and wait buy a Kiwi trail and count
them as they went by. How you count them in the dark and rain I never
understood totally. Maby it was ESP or something.

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:09:28 -0400, "Peter A. Collin"
wrote:

Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody knows a source of australian possum skins -
like what you use for dubbing on an Ausable Wulff?

Pete Collin

Peter
Don't try Australia. But there are millions in New Zealand and you are
welcome to all of them.

Jim L

On Apr 3, 1:09 pm, "Peter A. Collin"
wrote:
Hello All,

I was wondering if anybody knows a source of australian possum skins -
like what you use for dubbing on an Ausable Wulff?

Pete Collin

Quite a few people stock it. You can get it here;
http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category/71000

TL
MC

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Quite a few people stock it. You can get it here;
http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category/71000

TL
MC


what Mike links to definitely is NOT Australian opposum,
however, standard North American opposum fur can be bleached and takes a
sort of burnt orange dye job pretty well to approximate the real thing with
a bit of tinkering.
I have tyed Ausable Wulffs for years with a muted, rusty
dyed possum fur mix I got from Fred Reese years back.
Even Mr. Betters thought it looked pretty good, when I showed it to him
quite a while back. But, then again, Fran was pretty kindly to me, and
probably guffawed at the rube within minutes of my leaving the shop.......
Tom

On Apr 3, 4:35 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
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Quite a few people stock it. You can get it here;
http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category/71000

TL
MC

what Mike links to definitely is NOT Australian opposum,
however, standard North American opposum fur can be bleached and takes a
sort of burnt orange dye job pretty well to approximate the real thing with
a bit of tinkering.
I have tyed Ausable Wulffs for years with a muted, rusty
dyed possum fur mix I got from Fred Reese years back.
Even Mr. Betters thought it looked pretty good, when I showed it to him
quite a while back. But, then again, Fran was pretty kindly to me, and
probably guffawed at the rube within minutes of my leaving the shop.......
Tom

Thes guys have it. Looks cheap too. I wonder if Australian possums
can cross the road?
http://www.anglersupplyhouse.com/sho...asp?itemid=919

"BJ Conner" wrote in message
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just looked through some notes I took....a long while back. Seems the
important part is the actual color, and it's obviously a dye job(rusty
orange oppossums are, at the very least, rare in natureg). A medium shade
of rusty orange fur of most sorts will probably work, and equally important
is that it must be dubbed on the fluorescent orange thread. I have seen them
tied with different tailing, but Fran insisted on woodchuck tail, except for
really huge ones, where he went to deer or bucktail, I don't recall which(I
tend to tie these in smaller sizes 14-18,
they are deadly on small streams).
Tom