How many of you fellow flyfishermen........

When you get to the point where you ask the folks in the petting zoo if
you can get some feathers out of the turkey pen ....

Take a little kid with you, Frank, whom you've trained to pull
feathers from birds.

They never arrest little kids.

vince

Wait until you get to stopping by roadkill to snip off some furry
bits...

Used to keep a 5 gallon bucket with a lid on in the back of my car. It
was about 1/3 full of rock salt. Kept a skinning knife in the trunk
next to it. Roadkill been berry, berry good to me.
Frank Reid

In article ,
says...

I tie caddis emergers and golden stones using hair from my golden retriever.


Labrador retriever fur will make a dry that is damn near unsinkable.
It will even make a lead-wrapped bead head nymph that is damn near
unsinkable.

Also, the dogs and I pursue ducks, pheasants, grouse, and partridge
every fall. The dogs are very good at their part of it, but
they still tolerate my skill level, if you can call it that.

Kevin

Have used many bird / game feathers / fur at the tying table.
Probably the best is antelope hair for caddis. The hair is hollow,
making a very floatable "elk hair" pattern.
In my failed youth, I would take pains to match duck wings to get the
matching bits for tying wings on various patterns.
Then I stopped tying wings on them.
I never noticed the difference on the stream.

cheers

oz, who got back from Colorado yesterday. It has been taken over by
the yuppies and Middle Park is suffering from organo-phosphates from
all the development.
I guess it's true: "you can't go home again".

Jonathan Cook wrote:
MajorOz wrote:

oz, who got back from Colorado yesterday. It has been taken over by
the yuppies and Middle Park is suffering from organo-phosphates from
all the development.

Let me guess: you hadn't been there for 20 years?

Jon.

Twelve

cheers

oz, correcting a significant error: should have said "South Park"

I'm Guilty I hunt for grouse and woodcock ,dove and what ever else I have
time for but regretfully I have no dog. but once had a English setter that
was a fine dog.
I save all the grouse skins and wooduck skins some turkey wing and tails,
goose quills. some woodcock skins, I'm looking for some snipe because I've
seen the price on them and enjoy tying and fishing soft hackles. I used to
save the cdc of ducks and geese but I can get it relatively cheep and have
it stockpiled.
"David" wrote in message
oups.com...

angler wrote:
......also hunt for birds, and I do mean the winged, feathered, kind of
birds ;-) ?

Just curious.
I mean, after all, apart from the rest, there is a small issue of
getting fly tying material for free ;-)

BR/ Roger
Who just had his Gordon Setter help him to shoot two capercaillie hens,
two hazel hens, two black grouse and 15 ptarmigans in six days. I just
love that dog so don't you suggest using her for fly tying material
;-)

Have two Gordon Setters who are great Grouse and Pheasant dogs. One
loves Woodcock; the other turns her nose up at them. I don't tie flies.


David N.