It must’ve been the Alaska Gold marathon running all weekend in my living room, companion noise while I hacked, chopped, and ground up most of the fur bearing animals resident to North America.
By Monday evening all the bearings in my grinder sounded oval, but she still gnawed away noisily at anything I wadded into the blade area. I could see the big seam on the inside had filled up nicely with tiny fragments of everything fed it in the last couple of weeks, and while my heroes were emptying sluice boxes and nugget traps, I was busy scraping the mechanism collecting the rarest of all fly tying colors, “Ear Wax Yellow.”
… like white being the sum of all colors, it’s a relatively indescribable yellow, possibly even a light olive, but once you’ve given it a name you see it in a different light – it being the sum of a thousand buggy colors, and how it takes on any shade your whim imagines useful.
Add a little brown thread rib and it becomes a darker hue – like a true chameleon using the colors of the environment to make itself less stark or obvious.
Hate the oldskool hooks with their heavy wire and ugly big barbs. Sorry, Keith.
But I dig the color of the dubbing. Sorta cat-sick, but dry and you know, like: dubbable. Or is that dubbalicous?
anyhow:Keep pelting ideas. Love it…
Nice flies, but that show sucks. How many times do I have to see the same damn footage. Before commercial, after commercial, then it happens, then the recap. Fu*k man, how retarded have we become?
Peter, I insist on maiming the fish I catch. I seek to wad as much rusty iron through gristle as is humanly possible, and these old hooks are “tetanus specials” – just wing ’em and it’ll prove fatal …
Hare’s Ear Wax Yellow
I luv the old school hooks! I also have to agree with Bruler. I’m addicted to watching that bunch of teabaggers sink over $250K into a 3 Stooges operation that grosses $20K; Then they top it off with “We’re on the verge of striking it rich and we’ll be back next year!!
I saw them as kindred spirits. “It’s cold, we ain’t shaved, showered, or shampoo’d. We ain’t had a bite in weeks, so let’s go kick some steelhead azz.”