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Old Hat wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:37 am I have never used any Pearsall's ash silk. Just never really had a need for it. I have always waxed grey with a dark cobbler's wax to get a close enough match. But, for my project of tying all published flymphs and adding them to my website, I would like to use some actual ash silk. There are 4 patterns that list ash silk as the tying color.

So my rather bold request...would anyone be willing to part with a small amount of ash silk. Just enough to tie 4 flies? I'm sure we could work out a trade for something.

I've searched all over and can't find any. As suspected. I did come across this nice photo in a forum which compares YLI 100 Pinky Brown #242 (top) and Langely's smoke #10 (left) to Pearsall's ash (right) for a nice reference.

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tie2fish wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:00 am

Old Hat wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:37 am I have never used any Pearsall's ash silk. Just never really had a need for it. I have always waxed grey with a dark cobbler's wax to get a close enough match. But, for my project of tying all published flymphs and adding them to my website, I would like to use some actual ash silk. There are 4 patterns that list ash silk as the tying color.

So my rather bold request...would anyone be willing to part with a small amount of ash silk. Just enough to tie 4 flies? I'm sure we could work out a trade for something.

I've searched all over and can't find any. As suspected. I did come across this nice photo in a forum which compares YLI 100 Pinky Brown #242 (top) and Langely's smoke #10 (left) to Pearsall's ash (right) for a nice reference.

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It could be the lighting, but the Pearsall's silk in the above photo does not look like #10 ash to me; it looks more like #16 Olive. See chart below (Fourth Row) ...

letumgo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:11 am Carl - I have a spool of ash Pearsall’s and will send you some. I also found a nice sub at Jo Anne’s. Let me see if I can find it among my stuff.