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    I have just finished an addition of six new pages to the softhackle section on my site:-
    http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page61.html
    Donald Nicolson (Scotland)

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    Hi Donald,

    Very nice selection. I've had luck here with a spider (size 12 and 14) tied with white floss body, white hen hackle, and a pale yellow head. I tie the floss on near the head and do not bring the tying thread down underneath the white floss (so there is no yellow showing through; though that might not necessarily be a bad thing). I think this was based upon one of Pritts flies? or it might have been Edmonds and Lee?

    Anyway, I've had luck with it in crystal clear waters during the summer when nothing else was getting hit.

    - Jeff
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    Donald,
    Your new pages of flies are wonderful!! So much so, that I went in search of the "A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies" book. WOW!! You post flies from it, and now it's available from one bookstore Stateside, for $215.00!! Guess I'll just rely on your web site !

    Thank you again for the pages!
    Betty
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    Hi Betty,
    Thank you for the appreciation.
    Fogg's book was recently available on Amazon UK for the original retail price,
    I think they were forgotten stock and had to be sold at the jacket price as they were not second hand but legally new. That is about ten pounds sterling, a bit better than $215.00

    Try Amazon UK search in Books for Roger Fogg -
    'A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies'
    Let me know by e-mail how you get on, I may be able to help.
    Donald Nicolson (Scotland)

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    I'm on it!!! Will let you know!!
    Trouts don't live in ugly places.

    A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.

    Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.

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    YES!!!
    ?17.55 including shipping!! Thank you Donald!!
    Trouts don't live in ugly places.

    A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.

    Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.

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    Very nice flies as usual. I have never tried tying w/ woodcock as we don't have any around here. We do have snipe though, I might try to bag one this fall for the skin. Should be similar to woodcock although somewhat lighter in color.

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    [url=http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?action=search&type=isbn&term=094781811 1&source=3151450759-21103:82900]Blackwell UK[/url:82900] also has it in stock fairly inexpensively.

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