Recent Dressings

[Donald Nicolson]

Here are some of the Flies I have been tying.
http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page175.html

http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page182.html

http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page171.html

[Denny]

Donald,

All very nice!! Have to love those hen hackles and the fish like them also.

Thanks for sharing.

Denny

[JeffHamm]

Very nice. I've tied an upright, using freshly shorn sheep wool and ginger hackle, which looks promising. The first page are an interesting collection, sort of a marriage between a feather-wing streamer and a wee wet. I could see those working well in some fast water. Nice ties, and good to see your back at it.

- Jeff

[ZugbugPete]

Wonderful ties! I'm particularly intrigued by the Black and Yellow Spider on the third of the three links provided, in that it uses camel dubbing for the thorax. That's a material I haven't come across and I'm curious about where one gets it and what types of applications it could be used for. Well done flies!
-Pete

[billhouk]

The Capitan Hamilton was a very interesting alternative using two color wire to simulate the ribbing Thanks for sharing (what to me was) a new technique.

[JeffHamm]

Hi,

I've just read the section on your site concerning the Glanrhos wet flies. I hadn't realised the wing is made by not trimming the hackle after wrapping the color, but leaving the tip tied in as a single wing. I was thinking it was a pair of tips. Interesting.

- Jeff

[TyroneFly]

Donald,

Very nice ties you've done.

What do you do to get the "buggy" effect from your dubbing? Do you tease the dubbing?

[Donald Nicolson]

Pete, I received some camel from a friend a few years ago and liked it a lot.
In texture it is somewhere between mole and seal's fur. I recently acquired from
http://www.bearsden.com/product1951.html
A box of assorted colours. I can recommend it as a dubbing.

Tyronefly,
I pull the dubbing from the hole in the box as a thin, flat skein which I
dub on to the thread, with the rule 'the less, the better'.

Billhouk,
I may have mis-understood what you said, but I rapped two wires to form
the body, one black and one yellow, I tied in the two ends, and taking both
wires, I rapped forwards towards the head.

Jeff,
I rather tied these quickly from memory, the thread is taken down the hook
to the wing tie in point, then tie in the wing (tip), then angle the wing with a few more
turns of the thread.
As I was using up some hackles lying on my bench which were a bit larger than Woolley
used, I got a largish wing. In retrospect this may be advantageous, giving an exageration
of the crippled dun effect.
Well, that's my theory and I am sticking to it.

I have tidied up the Glanrhos article, well, more re-arranged than anything else.

For whoever is interested - http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page140.html

[billhouk]

You interpreted my comment correctly. I have not seen the two wire technique before. Excellent idea!

[fishdog54]

Donald,

How do the flies on pages 175 and 182 swim/ride, or are they normally dead-drifted? Seems like they would lay on their side - not so sure if it even matters, just curious! Anyway, thanks for sharing. As always, I enjoy your posts and your site! Man, I miss Scotland!! I still have the flies given me by a gentleman on the River Ness back in Jun-Jul 1984! They were Hairy Marys tied on trebles!

Best regards, Dave S.