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| huba1973 |
Posted - 30/06/2008 : 05:18:49
I was lucky to buy few older copies of FF&FT on e-bay.Plenty of interesting stuff in them aswell as excellent flies.One in particular caught my eye.Its Mark Bowlers Chinese Whisper wet fly that I decided to make a copy of.Altought,having no chinese capes,I used indian cock and hen hackles and added a thorax of claret pigs wool.There is my variant of Marks fly below in the link.Its not only an eye catcher,it is suppous to be a fish catcher too.
Regards-Hubert
tail-claret indian cock
body-flat gold ribbed oval gold
thorax-claret pigs wool
hackle-indian hen
wings-double slips bronze mallard
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| huba1973 |
Posted - 20/07/2008 : 14:45:02
As far ,as I know, pigs wool is a dubbing made of fur taken from pigs ears,dyed in many different colours and used on older trout and salmon flies.Is something like seals fur but stiffer and harder to dubb.Not common within fly materials suppliers these days
It is not included in original dressing of Chinese Whisper,is simply my addition to the dressing.In the link below there is another fly that uses pigs wool so You sort of know I am talking about.
Regards-Hubert
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| jofn |
Posted - 17/07/2008 : 15:15:36
Hi folks,
Question for whomever.
On the Chinese Whisper fly, What on earth is 'Pigs wool'?
Is it discussed in the FFFT issue - what edition is the artcle in?
Incidentally, I was fishing a tributary of the R Wey recently and caught a couple of lovely little Chub on a dry fly. Anyone else having similar fun?
Jofn |
| huba1973 |
Posted - 02/07/2008 : 12:39:32
Tried it for rainbows at Walthamstow yesterday,didnt work,but nothing really worked,couple of fish in between about 10 anglers.Got a nice sun tan though |
| flyfishingandflytying |
Posted - 02/07/2008 : 04:15:37
The Chinese Whisper is a good wet fly, especially used as a point fly. It's particularly good on Scottish hill lochs, where the combination of gold flash, a hint of clarety life and the bronze mallard seem to attract the right instincts in wild trout. |
