Allgrouse Red
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Allgrouse Red
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.
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Re: Allgrouse Red
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".
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(Now, let's wait for Steve to come on here and call it "a great bait".
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Re: Allgrouse Red
Very beaugly!!
dd
dd
Re: Allgrouse Red
Oow. Now that looks like a great bait, Bill.
Steve
Steve
Re: Great Bait
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
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!!!!
Soft and wet - the only way....
Fly Pole and "Bait" and Walleye
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
Bill
Fill me in on the body---- is that a twist, or quill? VERY interesting....
Dana
Fill me in on the body---- is that a twist, or quill? VERY interesting....
Dana
Soft and wet - the only way....
Re: Fly Pole and "Bait" and Walleye
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