yellowy-olive hackle

[boorod]

get a good coloured hackle for ymd or olives, boil some onion skins in water until you get shade u want add a drop of vinagar then your hackles or cape, no need for exspensive dyes.

[sweenytodd]

Any pics of the results ?? And how fixed is the colour ??

Dyes are only a few quid and made for the job . Not knocking the idea like

[boorod]

sorry no pics (havnt a clue how to do that yet) the colour is set by the vinagar it is how thay got there shades back in the 40ts , if you can get a copy of A DICTIONARY OF TROUT FLIES BY A.COURTNEY.WILLIAMS you will find them in there.

[sweenytodd]

Originally Posted by boorod

sorry no pics (havnt a clue how to do that yet) the colour is set by the vinagar it is how thay got there shades back in the 40ts , if you can get a copy of A DICTIONARY OF TROUT FLIES BY A.COURTNEY.WILLIAMS you will find them in there.

Aye I guessed that much about the vinegar and also guessed it was a method from days gone by . The point/question I was making is how does it compare to the modern dyes and methods and how well does it stand up to being washed out when the fly is fished ?? As even some materials you gets these days do wash out very fast

[boorod]

tied the flies up 4 years ago and the colour is still alright. not had any washout with it so far.

[sweenytodd]

Originally Posted by boorod

tied the flies up 4 years ago and the colour is still alright. not had any washout with it so far.

Nice one fair play to ya

Will you be doing any fiery brown the old way

[boorod]

dont know about fiery brown, but might try some guinness boiled up to see what happens

[arkle]

Onion skins are often used by the trade to dye silver mallard flank a summer duck substitute colour.

[saracen]

Originally Posted by boorod

dont know about fiery brown, but might try some guinness boiled up to see what happens

Asses urine is what you want for that!!!

Saracen