Snowshoe Rabbits foot

I get my snowshoe feet from Lines End Inc. "linesend.com"
Don't think they have yellow though...
DB

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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Hey, with the closing of Fred Reese's fly shop, anyone find a new source
for
dyed snowshoe bunny foots. I'm looking for yellow (for sulphers). I've
googled but not found anything and if I try to dye animal parts at home
again, the wiff will stick me in the dye bath.

--
Frank Reid
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From: "Dave B"

I get my snowshoe feet from Lines End Inc. "linesend.com"
Don't think they have yellow though..

I tie my Sulphur imitations with pale dun natural snowshoe wings, which closely
resembles the natural. For the body, I use synthetic dubbing in pale yellow,
orange/yellow, or yellow/olive, to match the naturals. Generally, I'm not so
fussy about matching body color, but I've found that, at least in my area,
color makes a difference fishing this hatch.

I've tried yellow snowshoe for the wings, and while more visible to me, it has
been less effective in fooling the fish.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

George Adams wrote:

I tie my Sulphur imitations with pale dun natural snowshoe wings, which closely
resembles the natural. For the body, I use synthetic dubbing in pale yellow,
orange/yellow, or yellow/olive, to match the naturals. Generally, I'm not so
fussy about matching body color, but I've found that, at least in my area,
color makes a difference fishing this hatch.

I've tried yellow snowshoe for the wings, and while more visible to me, it has
been less effective in fooling the fish.


My guess is that this is a heavy hatch in your parts. What I've found is
that it's the heavy hatches that are out for an extended period of time
that result in fish being that picky. Locally, that is only on BWO's.
It's also my experience that the fish start out pretty easy at the
beginning of the hatch, but as the hatch continues on for days, the fish
get more picky and require "better" flies. Sometimes individual fish
will key in on only specific stages of types of flies.

Willi

From: Willi

My guess is that this is a heavy hatch in your parts.

The 'hatch' is actually several hatches of various yellowish mayflies from size
14 - 20. The activity can be quite heavy at times, and on our local tailwater
generally stars the last week in May, and can last until Labor Day. The streams
I fish further north have less complex hatches of shorter duration, and body
color is not nearly as important.

I suspect you're right about the intensity and duration of hatches relating to
the selectivity of the fish. For example, the Farmington River is a large
tailwater in CT, and is famous for its prolific Hendrickson hatch. On a good
day the flies can hatch in such numbers as to make fishing futile....just too
damn many naturals on the water. On this stream, the distinction between the
Hendrickson, (female), and Red Quill, (male), is important, as the fish seem to
be able to tell the difference. On other streams in the area that have
Hendricksons, it is not nearly as important. Usually either pattern will work.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller