tonight's fly pic

Phew. That is a #20 Daiichi 1110 hook.
The closeup lense makes it look a lot bigger.

http://www.montana-riverboats.com/Pa..._Bmp_Bwo.htmls

Sandy Pittendrigh wrote:
Phew. That is a #20 Daiichi 1110 hook.
The closeup lense makes it look a lot bigger.

http://www.montana-riverboats.com/Pa..._Bmp_Bwo.htmls


Ooops. Above links has a typo

http://www.montana-riverboats.com/Pa...0_Bmp_Bwo.html

"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote

Sandy, I'm curious .... have you had a chance to fish flies with the CA
glued parachute hackle? I'm wondering how they hold up to casting/fish
chewing.

Larry wrote:
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote

Sandy, I'm curious .... have you had a chance to fish flies with the CA
glued parachute hackle? I'm wondering how they hold up to casting/fish
chewing.



Yes and no. I mean I've been doing this for years.
I used to make the same parachute, with CA glue, using
a different, more arduous technique. All this latest round
of development did was speed up the process a lot,
using a smarter sequence of events. But the end
result is the same fly. And I have fished it a lot.

After I pull the fly off the vise and trim back the tag
end of hackle with a razor blade I put one last micro-dot
of ZapAGap or Krazy glue at the center of the hackle,
and then put hte fly aside. That hackle is there for
as long as you are.

You should have been at the Dan Delekta show I saw
three weeks ago. Dan has been super-gluing flies for
as long or longer than I have. And he says the same thing:
if you glue it properly, it ain't going no where.
http://www.montana-riverboats.com/Pa...n_Delekta.html

.........anybody remember the ill-fated Sandy's Superlfy
from the late 1980s? That marketing campaign was an organizational
disaster. But the product was way ahead of its time.

"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
...
........anybody remember the ill-fated Sandy's Superlfy
from the late 1980s? That marketing campaign was an organizational
disaster. But the product was way ahead of its time.

Tom makes geezerish wheeze and replies "yes"........



I suppose the marketing was an unmitigated failure, as I google'd "sandy's
superfly" and got no image hits at all...

:-(

--riverman

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riverman wrote:
"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
...

........anybody remember the ill-fated Sandy's Superlfy
from the late 1980s? That marketing campaign was an organizational
disaster. But the product was way ahead of its time.

Tom makes geezerish wheeze and replies "yes"........




I suppose the marketing was an unmitigated failure, as I google'd
"sandy's superfly" and got no image hits at all...

:-(

--riverman

Since the World Wide Web didn't exist until the 90's that's hardly
surprising.

Yes, but there are plenty of things that are online which were introduced
long before the web was developed; even things which are no longer in common
use. I was thinking that there might be ONE site that showed pictures of
older flys, or one that described the fly. I mean, it was only 25 years ago.

I'm prone to agree with Sandy that the marketing must have been truly
disasterous. Can anyone point me to an image or description of it? I'm
genuinely curious about it.

-riverman

I had a roll of 5000 labels I threw away ten years ago.
When I first started selling super glue it cost 6 bucks
(retail) per small bottle. That left plenty of room for
markup.

Now you have to sell a pallet load just to make a
few bucks.

What killed the deal was when the wholesaler put
thousands of dollars of brand new plastic bottles
of superglue right next to several hundred bottles
of CA hardening accelerator. Two weeks after
buying the glue (and making hundreds of deals with
fly shops) all the glue turned rock hard on the shelf.

Whose fault was that? Mine and theirs more or less
equally I guess. I had another one of those good ideas.
But I do tend to play loose with the details.

riverman wrote:
"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
...

........anybody remember the ill-fated Sandy's Superlfy
from the late 1980s? That marketing campaign was an organizational
disaster. But the product was way ahead of its time.

Tom makes geezerish wheeze and replies "yes"........




I suppose the marketing was an unmitigated failure, as I google'd "sandy's
superfly" and got no image hits at all...

:-(

--riverman

Since the World Wide Web didn't exist until the 90's that's hardly
surprising.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote

That hackle is there for
as long as you are.



cool, and I'll add that I'm impressed by your 'thinking outside the box" so
often with your flies .... have you considered becoming the sole
international supplier of extremely marked up, repackaged, short pieces of
the Teflon tubing? G

Actually I have an idea ( reworded to more accurately reflect the truth, I'm
stealing your idea ) to use a glued hackle to improve and ease the tying of
a simple spinner pattern I like ...if it works I'll report

PS I noticed that Cabela's has tiny 'diving lips' for sizes down to 14 ( I
think ) in their new fly fishing catalog ...

"Larry" wrote


PS I noticed that Cabela's has tiny 'diving lips' for sizes down to 14
( I think ) in their new fly fishing catalog ...


Wow, down to 18 .... I gotta try this for a damsel nymph

http://tinyurl.com/qgvwp