In my experience, just casting a fly with a smushed synthetic parachute post straightens the thing right out. Just sayin'. . . .
--Bud
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- Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: The Tying Table
- Topic: Synthetic parachute wing material?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3875
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:07 am
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: Tippet Rings
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2501
Re: Tippet Rings
I've been using tippet rings for the past two years, and I fish dries and emergers almost exclusively. As Tom said, no problems and no need to change leaders. I wouldn't go back.
--Bud
--Bud
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: Annual Holiday book giveaway---trivia contest
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4944
Re: Annual Holiday book giveaway---trivia contest
Mike--
Consider yourself fortunate. When A Week on the Concord and Merrimack failed to sell, Thoreau ended up with the unsold copies, He wrote in a journal entry, "I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes over 700 of which I wrote myself."
His next book was Walden.
--Bud
Consider yourself fortunate. When A Week on the Concord and Merrimack failed to sell, Thoreau ended up with the unsold copies, He wrote in a journal entry, "I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes over 700 of which I wrote myself."
His next book was Walden.
--Bud
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:39 am
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: New regulations in region 3
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6059
Re: New regulations in region 3
TGF is putting in its two cents on this, and the NRDC is getting involved. They don't usually deal with issues this local, but NRDC founder John Adams lives in the Catskills, and his son founded Catskill Mountainkeeper, so we've got a lot of dogs in this fight.
--Bud
--Bud
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: Darwin Atkin
- Replies: 4
- Views: 575
Re: Darwin Atkin
Darwin Atkin also developed the Waste-Trol waste catcher and the vise extension that is still sold by Dyna-King. With it, he and many West Coast tyers after him would reverse the extension, drop the vise below the table top, and tie in their laps--a much more natural position. That's what I do. Some...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:37 am
- Forum: The Dry Fly
- Topic: Patterns by John Atherton
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11316
Re: Patterns by John Atherton
>>The publisher was recently made aware of this problem and to the delight of those of us involved with that title corrections are being made. They will be reflected in a subsequent second printing.<< Mike-- That's good news. I'm the world's worst proofreader, and people who live in glass houses sho...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: Fly Tying Symposium, November 2017
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1543
Re: Fly Tying Symposium, November 2017
It's also a three-hour drive from Baja Westchester--no longer a day trip. Bummer.
--Bud

--Bud
- Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:42 am
- Forum: The Tying Table
- Topic: Materials Charts
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3869
Re: Materials Charts
My main question / concern would be on the best way to attach the materials to the pages. Old privately made versions are often just high acid paper with scotch tape which over time breaks down and fails to last more than a few decades. What can be done to assure lasting quality? In the January Gaz...
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:09 am
- Forum: The Tying Table
- Topic: Materials Charts
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3869
Re: Materials Charts
Several years ago (1975). the late Dick Salmon, a member of Debruce, undertook the task of assembling several handmade books of popular fly patterns and their materials. He personally assembled each book using his own calligraphy and gluing each piece of material to the pages. The remaining books w...
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:05 am
- Forum: The Bar Stool
- Topic: The Legend of Dan Cahill
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1773
Re: The Legend of Dan Cahill
Folks--
I had an exchange with Ed Van Put yesterday, and the article as he wrote it will appear in the March Catskill Fly Tyers Guild Gazette.
Many thanks to Ed and to those who suggested that he get the original article out via the Gazette.
--Bud
I had an exchange with Ed Van Put yesterday, and the article as he wrote it will appear in the March Catskill Fly Tyers Guild Gazette.
Many thanks to Ed and to those who suggested that he get the original article out via the Gazette.
--Bud