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Allgrouse Red
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:23 am
by tie2fish
Since most if not all of the photos that I previously posted using PB are now gone from the forum, I'm going to re-post some of my favorites. The Allgrouse Red is a variation of a Steve Bird pattern, and is constructed completely of various feathers from an English Red Grouse using Pearsall's #14 (claret) Gossamer thread on a Mustad 94840 Size #12 hook.
Re: Allgrouse Red
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:22 am
by swellcat
It's meaty—borderline burly in body—yet with notes of refinement.
(Now, let's wait for Steve to come on here and call it "a great bait".
)
Re: Allgrouse Red
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:08 pm
by daringduffer
Very beaugly!!
dd
Re: Allgrouse Red
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:02 am
by UC Steve
Oow. Now that looks like a great bait, Bill.
Steve
Great Bait
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:01 pm
by swellcat
Re: Great Bait
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:46 pm
by UC Steve
swellcat wrote:
Yep. Had a team-building group from Tennessee this past summer. Non-flyfishers forced into it (while extremely hung-over each day, for the most part). After two days of dangerous, non-productive flailing & increasing complaints (& it's 100-degrees hot), I'd had enough. On the third day, desperate, I broke out the spinning rods & a couple dozen nightcrawlers. We're gonna fish for walleye. One guy, happy now, threads on a worm, plunks it out there, settles back in his seat, crosses his legs, & sez: "Now this's fishin."
Re: Allgrouse Red
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:05 pm
by Theroe
That's a beauty, Bill. I just received a pair of red grouse wings( and a pair of waterhen wings as well) which I think I will use to tie some breadcrusts, a la English grouse ....... thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Fly Pole and "Bait" and Walleye
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:01 pm
by swellcat
Sorry, but that's a fly pole (albeit with only four guides and no stripper) with a wooden fighting butt and fly reel. (What manner of garden hackle one opts to dangle therefrom is his bidness.)
The use of the term "bait" to describe an attractive fly is great fun. It's slightly subversive but also seems pretty evolved and post-pretentious; what could be more welcome to find floating in the fly-pole punch bowl?
Re: Allgrouse Red
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:39 pm
by Theroe
Bill
Fill me in on the body---- is that a twist, or quill? VERY interesting....
Dana
Re: Fly Pole and "Bait" and Walleye
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:50 pm
by UC Steve
swellcat wrote:
Sorry, but that's a fly pole (albeit with only four guides and no stripper) with a wooden fighting butt and fly reel. (What manner of garden hackle one opts to dangle therefrom is his bidness.)
The use of the term "bait" to describe an attractive fly is great fun. It's slightly subversive but also seems pretty evolved and post-pretentious; what could be more welcome to find floating in the fly-pole punch bowl?
Exactly. I probably picked the term up from Harry LeMire & Trey Combs. More common usage back before the popular book & movie I suspect. Makes sense though; & thinking of the fly as such compels a spectrum of presentations & inspired jigglings.
Steve