Help and advice on materials.....

[hobble]

Hi guys, just bought a job lot of materials from a forum member at a bargain price,
ive got a box of differant bird skins and feathers etc
some im not sure what to tye with,
so help and advice appreciated on what flies i can expect to tye up with these full skins,


1 ruffed grouse skin

2 mandarin duck skin

3 cortunix coturnix japonica xlm

4 snipe skin

5. Starling skin

6 vulterine feathers and macaw feathers,

got a box loads of other skins that i have used in the past,
so any help appreciated....................

[wingman]

The snipe and starling and grouse will definitely do for a few spiders hobble, not sure about t'others though think there's a macaw dabbler that uses the wing and tail feathers of the macaw which might be useful.

[paddy5]

Hi Hobble the vulturine is difficult to get hold of and is essential in the elver fly . PJ

[hobble]

thanks wingman and paddy, hadnt a clue what to do with some of them , sculptin crusader "ben" sent me a shop load of materials almost all of them cookshills which gives you an idea of the quality of materials im talking about and just didnt want to be wasting them or using them wrongly,
paddy the vulturine feathers i have are elver , cobalt blue breast and purple edged wing and ive quite a selection so not sure how hard they are to obtain,.
thanks again..

[emerger1981]

if you cant find anything to do with the ruffed grouse and mandarin i,ll expose of them for you..

[brownsville]

You got yourself a bargain there Hobble.

I still don't understand why Ben gave up as he obviously had the best of everything, and his flies are beautifully tied. I bought them all last year, he even included an original Dave Whitlock sculpin and his Go Go Hamster.

I know he loves his barbel fishing, but it is fly-tying's loss. A real talent.

[flytier07]

If you're wondering about vulturine feathers they cost about a tenner for ten with most suppliers and I think Steve Cooper at Cookshill is probably the most reasonably priced, but look up the price on any website and you'll see what I mean. As Mark said they're used in the Elver Fly which is a salmon fly. The mandarin duck skin is lovely and will set you back at least £50 so you indeed got a bargain you lucky so and so. The feathers can be used in lots of wet and dry flies. I'd love to have any of those any day so please post some of the flies you tie as it will be nice to see what you create from the gear?

[hobble]

emerger you chancer.........................

i certainly got a bargain mate, i bought some stuff off ben last year , his vice etc, then he put stuff up for sale and i told him im interested and he gave it to me for a bargain mate, 16 bird skins all from cookshill, feathers wings etc etc and that was only one box, lolol another full of other materials,
he sent me over some of the mouse flys, and frogs he tied up with deer hair etc, very talented guy,

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jesus mate i best not tell you what i did get or you will have a stroke, ive 20 odd macaw feathers, ,lots and lots of goose shoulder feathers in 10 or so colours, vulterine feathers , lots and lots of them , as brownsville knows ben he can testify as to what ben had to tye up his flies with,