Sparse Grey Matter

In my experience, just casting a fly with a smushed synthetic parachute post straightens the thing right out. Just sayin'. . . .

--Bud

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

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

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

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...

>>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...

It's also a three-hour drive from Baja Westchester--no longer a day trip. Bummer.

--Bud

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...

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...

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