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Date: December 21, 2002 at 19:36:52
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Translucense Nov. 2002 |
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Thanks Richard. One of the mechanics I talk about is counting hairs in a wing and many people for reasons known only to themselves have totally misrepresented and ridiculed the reasoning behind that simple technique. It is a method for tying a sparse fly that is understandable. It is a way to make a sparse fly that is repeatable. It is a bench mark to measure a sparse fly with. Add hairs and it is less sparse subtract hairs and it is more sparse. There was never a standard for a sparse fly that was communicable and over the years I would be shown flies that people had tied as sparse that had as much material as a large bucktail jig. There was no measurement for 'sparse,' so that is the reasoning behind counting hairs in tying a sparse fly. It works. It also has the added benefit of making blending color with different colored hairs for any part of a fly easily repeatable.
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