RE: My First Night at the Bench

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RE: My First Night at the Bench - 9/26/2008 8:55:23 PM

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Guinea feathers, black with white spots: I've never used them, but I've seen patterns that called for them on a streamer "cheek" or just as a streamer eye (just use a bit with the black surrounding one white spot - kind of like a jungle cock feather). I'd bet that you could use them for a spidery, old-school type wet fly too (you only wrap a smaller, webbier hackly like partridge around the shank about 2 times) as in a "partridge and orange" and a "partridge and green" - they work.

I also have to second Dano's suggestion of pickett pins - they're great. I use smaller ones with a bead head as nymphs or wets. I have friends that use bigger ones like streamers. I've heard that they work on top also.

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