Australian possum

On Apr 3, 4:09 am, "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
Did you find this one? It doesn't even have tire tracks on it?
http://www.chichesterinc.com/Opossum-Australian.htm

On Apr 3, 4:09 am, "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

Wapsifly has them in their catalog as well.

Hello Tom will you please look at this picture and tell me if this is
close to what Mr. Betters wanted I've never seen one of his thanks/
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7lofi/Asablewulff.jpg

Gerard http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7lofi/index.htm
"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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wrote in message
oups.com...
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

"G. J. Z." wrote in message
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Hello Tom will you please look at this picture and tell me if this is
close to what Mr. Betters wanted I've never seen one of his thanks/
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7lofi/Asablewulff.jpg


I would say the body should be a shade lighter and a bit less red, but that
could easily be the photography. I have a copy of Fran's book and will try
and see if I can scan
his pic into the book. From what I can see, that fly in the photo of yours
should be perfectly successful, fishing-
wise.
Tom

G. J. Z. wrote:
Hello Tom will you please look at this picture and tell me if this is
close to what Mr. Betters wanted I've never seen one of his thanks/
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7lofi/Asablewulff.jpg


Betters uses fluorescent orange thread.

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.