And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My uncle was a fly-tier from his teen years I was told. In the early 50's I gave him a bag of turkey feathers I got while working as a turkey "wrangler". 50 plus years later I visited him in Bishop, CA where he had finally settled. He showed me his work shop (not nearly as neat as this one). In one of the multitude of cubby holes I saw a bag labelled - yup - "turkey feathers". I asked him if they were what I gave him. "Yes, same feathers, different bag". He said he hadn't tied but a couple patterns for years since the Sierra born and raised fish seemed to only strike on certain patterns. Being a old type New Englander he couldn't get rid of the unused materials I guess.
I have no talent for tying flies, or fly fishing, but this certainly is a tidy work bench.
ReplyDeleteNot as hard as it seems but of course practice makes perfect in any art…
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ReplyDeleteMy uncle was a fly-tier from his teen years I was told. In the early 50's I gave him a bag of turkey feathers I got while working as a turkey "wrangler". 50 plus years later I visited him in Bishop, CA where he had finally settled. He showed me his work shop (not nearly as neat as this one). In one of the multitude of cubby holes I saw a bag labelled - yup - "turkey feathers". I asked him if they were what I gave him. "Yes, same feathers, different bag". He said he hadn't tied but a couple patterns for years since the Sierra born and raised fish seemed to only strike on certain patterns. Being a old type New Englander he couldn't get rid of the unused materials I guess.
ReplyDeleteGood for grasshopper and Muddler Minnow, for instance. Grasshopper works really well in the Sierra.
DeleteThey never stay looking like that
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