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Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:33 am
by Old Hat
Lance shared some dubbing strands of Pete's with 30% hare, muskrat, and mole mohair. What a great combo. The trifecta of dubbing. They were twisted on primrose silk. Of course I had to use that combo some where. Just an experiment pattern but that dubbing blend is money.
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Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:11 am
by Roadkill
I have to get out the blender and tie a few of those! 8-) I have never added mole to the other two.

What size is it?

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:56 am
by Old Hat
I tied this on a #15 Gaelic Syl Nemes.

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:21 pm
by Partsman
Sweet!
Mike.

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:22 pm
by DOUGSDEN
Another dandy Carl! The segmented theme is pure genius! I too was privy to some of Pete's mohair dubbing thanks to the kind offices of Lance! I truly did not feel worthy even to possess this historic dubbing but I did it (tied swap flies) and it felt terrific! To tie with the same material that Pete himself handled and used....Wow!
Keep them coming Carl! I'm (we're) loving every morsel of this!
Doug

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:58 am
by RickA
[quote="Old Hat"
I tied this on a #15 Gaelic Syl Nemes. [/quote] 8-)

That golden/honey Badger just flows into the primrose and dubbing.
Absolutely amazing pattern, Carl!

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:16 am
by ronr
Carl mole mohair? is mole the color of the mohair wool? maybe dumb question, but I'd not heard of the two together...

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:51 am
by Old Hat
ronr wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:16 am Carl mole mohair? is mole the color of the mohair wool? maybe dumb question, but I'd not heard of the two together...
That's how I took it.

This is the example that Lance shared in the Facebook group.
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Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:37 pm
by Roadkill
The only mole mohair I could find online was a stuffed toy Mole made out of Mohair! ;)

So, I just subbed real mole fur in the dubbing, tied a #14 with Kimono Silk and an unidentified India chicken. :)

ImageRIMG1008 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Thanks, Carl, for the inspiration!

Re: Tri-color Rusty

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 10:00 pm
by Brooktrout52
Beautiful flies. Never used a mixture of three types of dubbing. Looks great.