3 Nor bobbins 30 spools load with
black,brown,olive&white in sizes 14 to 3/0
4 ceramics loaded with kevlar,gelspun & mono
15 older bobbins loaded with floss
G
Eight Thumbs, do you ever use your “notorious thread cutters” to spool out wire? I keep planning to use an extra bobbin for wire, but I never seem to remember. It seems like a good idea to use worn bobbins for wire as long as they cut or crimp that.
Eight Thumbs… and who else this may include…
On your thread cutting bobbins… take a small caddis bead and alittle head cement and put the bead in the hole…
that take care of that problem…
Just make sure you dont glue up the hole
EdD and Leonard,
Thanks for the suggestions about my “bad” bobbins. I have used the bad guys as wire holders for some time. I use them for both lead wire and fine ribbing wire. It suits my tight-wad nature to have no waste from these materials any more.
I’ve never tried the bead trick but I will certainly give it a try.
Thanks again! 8T
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
Not sure just how many bobbins I have, does that include the ones on “loan” to learners.
As for thread I don’t have that many. I have a good number of Pearsalls silk for NC Spiders but other flies are tied with only a few colours
My thread comes on 15 000 or 10 000 meter spools and I spool it down myself. I have about 8 colours. The intresting thing is that the thread is not the expensive part when you buy thread. Where the money goes is on the spool!
90% of all my flies are tied with a tan polyester thread as I mentioned above. I also use it for leaders.
Cheers,
Alan.
I have 3 Tiemco ceramic bobbins and about 15 different spools of thread. For my tying purposes that is about all I need.
Take care everyone and cya around. Mark
I have, somewhere, half a dozen bobbins. I have a couple I use regularly. And while I have a whole lotta thread lying around here, I only use three or four colors/sizes regularly. Black, olive, tan, and orange do 99% of what I need done.
I have 1 Bobbin & use 10 types of thread. I might want to get some more.
I rather go fishing than to work and yet to go fishing I must go to work!
I have 18 different bobbins including what I use for the spools of Pearsall silk, one I use with mono, one with Kevlar for egg tying and 2 with different sizes of lead.
As far as thread… I have 7 different colors of 6/0 here in front of me and I’m afraid to look in my storage area. Probably a few more colors there, too. I know I have at least a dozen spools of 8/0 and probably a half dozen spools of 3/0 in the basic colors. Pearsall’s silk I have at least 8 different colors.
Mike
There is no greater fan of flyfishing than the worm.
Patrick McManus
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Half a dozen bobbins and usually a couple
dozen spools of thread and such. Broke
down yesterday and ordered a Nor bobbin from
Ronn. Keep hearing how neat they are.G
Warm regards, Jim
I must have a dozen or so bobbins and that includes several Ekich Automoatic Bobbins which I use the most. Way too many thread types and colors to count or list.
Rich
2 store bought bobbins 2 homemade and a whole bunch thread
You can take a burr out of a bobbin…even ceramic with kevlar thread…there is an article here by A.K.Best some place with details…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. Fly fishers often refer to Fox Statler as “out of the box.” The truth is that I never got in the proverbial “box.” I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) “Spinner’d Minner Fly”
“Wish ya great fishing”
Bill
About 30 spools of thread in variuos colors but use the 6/0 dannville almost exclusively even for spinning hair (thread control) sometimes I use 8/0 on smaller flies. Don’t own any 10/0.
I have three bobbins and use the long throw matterelli for most all tying. I feel this has helped my tying tremendously alowing much better control.
You can’t catch fish with your fly in the air!
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18 bobbins 100’s of spools of thread. And I have 6 more ceramic bobbins in a bag unoppened. I found them for 6 bucks a piece last fish-in. They are just waiting for me to need another color.
I am like Allan, many boxes of stuff, I even have one of Jim Hatches Dremel lathes under the desk.
Harold
I have about a dozen or so bobbins, but I mainly use two automatic ceramic types with 6 spools of varying colors and weight.