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Too many thing to name them all, LOL! However I have to agree with the packages of loose partridge feathers and cheap tools.
Too much flash and too maybe colors of chenille. A bunch of the synthetic hair called Polaris hair as I just don't end up using a lot of different synthetic hair other than a little craft fur and things like that.
Skip
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I have this stupid patch of feathers marked 'jungle cock'. The feathers are too small for anything except legs on tiny nymphs and the black/yellow/white just doesn't look good in my opinion...
...on a more serious note, loose partridge ranks high with me too, also when I thought I'd be real smart and buy a skein of chenille at the craft store and it turned out to be way too fat.
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Hackle Pliers !!! Damned useless !!!!! I use my fingers !!!!!!
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Gummy minnow skin. Ought to have it labeled super-gummy crazy glue sticky skin that permanately stretches out of shape with any discernable pressure :lol::cool:
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A whole turkey tail. I've had it for 6 years, and have used maybe one feather.
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For all of you that have those loose partridge feathers, you can use them up by tying Moto's minnows or a variation of it. Just Google Orvis Moto's Minnow if your not familiar with that pattern. If it's not good for one particular pattern, you can always use it for something else! If you have really large feathers, you don't have to leave the fibers on the stem to tie smaller soft hackles or other patterns either! The same goes for those bags of CDC feathers. You can use the sparsed barbed ones for legs on ant patterns, nymph thorax's, and all kinds of other things.
Regards,
Mark
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Wing burners and...yes, bass_Bug, red duck feathers. They have sat in the box all these years saying over and over..."and you bought me for what???" :rolleyes:
Coughlin
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I totally agree on the packages of partridge feathers and rotary hackle pliers. This isn't for fly tying, but it is related to storing flies. I wish I hadn't purchased the several different types of fly boxes specifically for tube flies. They were intended to hold each tube fly separately, but the reality is the tubes fall or slide (depending on the type of box) right out of the individual holders. The box that uses poles to hold the flies in place just makes a mess of the tube flies when they all fall off and get tangled together. I went back to using storage compartments for tube flies.
Re: the packages of partridge feathers: here is another fly, the Grey Fred, for which you can use those feathers: http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/frede/
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BluDun and Mark, the issue with the partridge feathers is not they they are not useful, it's the fact they are loose. Buying a full (or half) partridge skin is the now preference for those that posted they wish they never them loose.
I did the same, bought a pack of loose partridge feathers only later to buy a half skin. What did I do with the loose feathers? Sent them to Coughlin in a material swap a couple years ago. Of course at the time I 'truly' thought I was doing him favor, by sending him quality tying materials. By no means was I trying to unload any unwanted sub-standard materials.:wink:
By the way Coughlin, the red duck, wasn't just feathers, I have a freaking pair of complete WINGS!!!! But to my defense, they were only $1.95 (now I know why)!!
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Bass_Bug...I KNEW it!!!:p
Coughlin