Catskills Fly Fishing Museum

[Cliff955]

Congratulations Mart, a well deserved honon indeed!

Cliff

[martinwestbeek]

Thank you, Cliff!

[Steven]

Looking at those pictures, I'd say it's not a surprise at all. Really beautiful flies.

Congrats!

[John Rhoades]

I agree with what Steven just said. Very, very nice.

John

[Alberto]

Martin,

A well deserved honor indeed and a beautiful set of flies. On the Wulff, I like how you reinforced the body with the gold wire. I have started doing the same on bigger sizes of that pattern. What hackle combination did you use for the pattern? One of them looks like a grizzly dyed brown/dark ginger.

Regards,

Alberto

[martinwestbeek]

Thanks, gents, I felt truly honored to be asked!
@Alberto: the wire is silver wire, the thinnest non-tarnishing wire I could find. As for the hackle: I normally use Whiting rooster saddle, dyed Coachman brown for this pattern but ran out of the right size of that color. So I used Grizzly dyed dark brown instead - so one color. The pic has a reddish cast over it though.

[dave potts]

Certainly museum quality.

They have not contacted me yet. I kind of suspect they ain't going to either. LOL