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It's 50 degrees out. Someone asked about heading to the tailrace to flyfish for walleye. It looks like Holland from the bulbs that surely must be popping out from the snow. Then I happened on this thread. I had to look at my calendar twice to make sure this wasn't April 1. I don't know whether my leg is being pulled or not. when I saw the picture I literally exploded in laughter. I'm simply amazed. Is that Osama in the background, there? JGW
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Here are a few pics of the pig's wool my friend sells. In talking with him, he purchases boar hides from a lady overseas. The dubbing is actually the underfur. As you can see it's very course. A lot of the old salmon fly patterns call for "pigs wool or down". Google "salmon flies pig's wool" come's back with a lot of info. Because it is so course it is hard to work with, I believe most salmon fly tiers use seal fur instead.
http://www.myfishingpictures.com/wat...re_002-med.jpg
http://www.myfishingpictures.com/wat...re_004-med.jpg
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http://www.storch-schweiz.ch/fotos/ungarn_5a.jpg
Here is a group picture of several of the variant colors the Wooly Pigs display.
Rich
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Boy, sure was a lot of work to glue all that wool onto those pigs just to pull our legs. Nice job guys but you can't pull the wool over my eyes! I ain't buying it, so to speak.
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Just curious Diane, what is the prank part about "snipe hunting"????
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Garic, "Snipe Hunting" is an age old trick pulled on Newbies on their first camping trip (usually). The idea is to get a kid (or very vapid adult) to take a bag - in the old days we used burlap sacks but now they use plastic garbage bags - out in the woods and set up along a trail. Everyone else then sez, "we're gonna go down the trail quite a ways and drive the snipes back up the trail to you. When one gets there, catch it in the bag". (Y'know, I never thought until now, who wants a snipe? What is a snipe? A bird that can't fly is what I always thought.)
Anyway, the idea is to leave that poor victim out on the trail until he finally catches on and comes back to the camp only to find everyone sitting around the fire, or playing cards in the tent/cabin/whatever. Then he knows he's been had.
As far as I know, there is no such thing as a snipe.
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Snow on the roof with fire in the hearth
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Ah, but there is such a thing as a snipe. And the snipe and purple wetfly is tied by Bill who traded me for some snipe wings last week. No kidding. You can trust me on this.
http://www.aves.net/ohio-shorebirds/snipe-in-hand.jpg
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Now that I know "Pig Wool" exists, I feel a need to possess some. I feel my Fly Tying - Material's Storage Room,is now incomplete, until I have stocked it with "Pig Wool"!
~ Parnelli
"Fly Tying is not an Addiction, it is an Obcession, there is a difference (I think?)!"
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Silvertop2, yes there is a snipe hunt prank that is pulled on newbie campers but Snipe hunting is as real as the upland game bird, Snipe. It is hunted in many states. And I'm truly not trying to pull the pigs wool (also real) over your eyes. If you look at this page on the Iowa DNR site you will see that last years Iowa Snipe Hunting Season was Sept. 6 - Nov. 30 and the bag limit was 8.
[url=http://www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/files/duck03.html:dec88]http://www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/files/duck03.html[/url:dec88]
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That was the reason I asked the question, although hard to find (and even harder to shoot) they do exist, a marshland, small, very fast bird http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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