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Need a good
flyrod? NEW The best book ever on tying full-dressed Atlantic salmon flies, with copious color illustrations and close ups of flies tied by the world's finest tyers. Out of print.
Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils, Rare and Unusual Fly Tying
Materials: a Natural History, volume 1, Birds, The Complete Sportsman,
1994, 283 pages Each volume is 11-1/4" x 15-1/2" $2,000, post paid If you've ever seen this book and are an advance tyer, you want to own it. Here is your chance. There is only one used copy of both volumes listed together for sale on Amazon. Their price is $2400, plus postage. Sample pages:
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Classic Fly Tying
Materials 8208 317th Place
Northwest, Robert C. Arnold, Sole Proprietor
Various packets of choice feathers. Those are two packets of wood duck breast feathers in foreground ($15).
Golden pheasant tippets and crests. Smaller crests are used for tail and larger for toppings. These capes contain both sizes. Eight capes and four crests only: $100.
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Pictures from the Old Stilly
Partridge low water hook
Partridge Single Wilson hook
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Hooks Special! These are the world's best fly hooks, made individually by hand and closely inspected for purposes of perfection. They are costly, but have short, sharp points made of the best steel, and will take more resharpening than most other hooks. The Partridge hooks are still made only in England, but the Daiichi hooks are made in Japan and marketed throughout the world. They are of dependably high quality. Bartleet, black japanned turned up eye 3/0 package of 10 hooks, $20 15 assorted blind eyes salmon fly hooks, a
few with removable gut eyes tied in, $45 Alec Jackson Spey fly hooks. Daiichi 2060, size 3. Gold. 82 count,
boxed. $29.50 Alec Jackson's Steelhead Irons, 25 count,
size 3, Black , $9 Alec Jackson's River Dee Low Water Hooks,
25 count, size 5, Black, $9 Total: 526 fine salmon fly hooks for $189.36, or $0.36 each hook. This is just a little more than half the price. Sold only as a lot, at
the present time. Found a few more packets: Alec Jackson's River Dee Low Water Hooks,
25 count, size 7, Black, $9
Reels, Spey Rods, One-handed Fly Rods, etc. This is the 3-3/4 inch St. George model Hardy fly reel. It too is left-hand crank, but does not require a locking screw because of its design. The finish has been stripped off, long ago, and so has the paint on two of its extra spools, but the third extra spool still has the factory black paint, which makes a handsome contrast when fished. (It too could be removed, if the owner wants to do it. It is fairly easy to accomplish.) This is a good, tight, serviceable reel suitable for trout and steelhead. It will hold about 100 yards of backing in a smaller size than 20 pound Dacron. Three extra spools. One has a custom ebony handle repair that works nicely. It can be seen on the background left.
Price: $500
Hardy St. Aidan. 3-7/8" member of the Light
Weight Series. I have Price: $200 per reel, with line and backing. Extra spools with lines and backing $75 each.
SPEY REELS Not a Hardy, but a handsome Lamson 4, with Rio Spey line and backing. Beautiful black enamel finish. One of the best reels made in the US. A little light wear. Caught lots of steelhead.
Price: $275
Made by Hardy for L.L. Bean is the GQS Disc 10/12, a huge reel of 4.15" in diameter and 1.25 in depth. It is very heavy and holds, I'd guess, 200 yards of 30lb. test Dacron backing. Plus a ten or twelve weight fly line. It must weigh several pounds and is suitable only for a commensurately large Spey rod. The spool is counter balanced and has a knob check on the back side. (See photo left.) The drag can be set surprisingly light and, of course, heavy enough to stop a Labrador Retriever. One of the best reels I've ever seen for Spey rod fishing and a dependable constant-companion for winter fishing on a large stream, such as the Skagit. It is 4.15" in diameter and correspondingly wide, with a strong check system and additional rim control (if you should need it. Surprisingly for a heavy reel, the line runs smoothly off of it on a running fish, and drag can be set quite light. Very nice, with just a little wear on the black enamel finish.
Price: $350 Two STH cassette reels, with 3 extra spools filled with 20 pound test quality Dacron backing and Rio flylines. Made in Argentina by R. L. Saconni and carefully machined of solid bar stock aluminum on Swiss machinery. Reel on left is the IM Series 4, 4.1 inches in diameter, reel on right the DDR series 4, 4.1 inches in diameter. A nicely compatible pair, with interchangeable spools. Finish is heavy black anodized aluminum and does not easily damage or mar. Interchangeable to right or left hand crank, with offset reel seat for better balance. Finely adjustable drag system. No kidding, my favorite of all the Spey rod type reels, and the one I choose for a given day's fishing on a favorite stream. They have landed lots of Wenatchee River steelhead and show no wear. Utterly dependable. Price, the pair and three extra spools: $450. The lines alone are worth the price.
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