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Old Hat
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by Old Hat » Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:12 am
I like this pattern. I has a bugginess to it and reminds me a bit of the light cahill.
Uses fur from a fox's ear for the dubbing. The pattern recipe I had listed that as the dubbing. Funny enough I had a small container of dubbing from years ago lableled "fox (ear)". I was given a bunch of fox masks and was tired of storing them so I had taken dubbing from them and put it in containers labeled fox and where it came from on the mask.
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by letumgo » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:50 am
Golly that's a pretty fly. It does look quite similar to the cahill dressing.
I've never come across a fox mask in any fly shops. Where would you find one these days?
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by crazy4oldcars » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:59 am
I don't know about just the mask, but my local Gander Mountain carries (carried? It's been a while sins I've been in the store. They no longer carry tying materials.) complete skins over by the hunting equipment. They had fox, coyote, skunk and badger the last time I looked. Seems like they were 25 or 30 bucks apiece.
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by Old Hat » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:35 pm
I have no idea where you would get one. Mine came from a friend who gave them to me. He ordered a full box of them off eBay. I think they came from Canada. There were natural colors and a ton of beautifully dyed purples, pinks, magentas, blues, yellow etc. As Kirk said you would have to go to buying a whole skin probably.
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by letumgo » Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:51 pm
Thanks guys.
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by Old Hat » Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:47 pm
Here you go Ray. A secret place. Don't stay too long it will cost you.
Go to furs, then heads. Or if so inclined...you can get a whole muskrat skin for less than $20.
http://www.hideandfur.com
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by letumgo » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:24 am
That's the place!!! I couldn't remember the name. Thanks Carl.
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by Jerry G » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:56 am
The Cahill style winged wet flies have found their place in a number of my fly boxes and quite often on my tippet. Now if I had some fox ear the "Old Man" would likely be yet another. Very nice tie there Carl.
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by William Anderson » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:48 am
Carl, this does have everything you could want and it's beautifully tied. I like this combination a lot. I have a number of these simple rolled winged patterns to test this season. This is a beaut.
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by gingerdun » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:10 pm
Great fly, Carl. Is that #14?
Nice background in the photo too.
