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Purple Commoner

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#1 ·
Like a Purple King, but less "regal", this fly will catch fish in a similar fashion, but has a slightly quicker tying time, and uses fewer materials. This is a "fishing" fly - as opposed to a display fly. Save your good Bronze Mallard for a display fly - it's just going to get mussed on the first drift anyway!

Other good colours have been red and - believe it or not - dark blue.

Recipe:

Hook: Partridge Bartleet
Tag: Gold Oval (optional)
Body: Silver Braid
Rib: Gold Oval
Hackle: Purple Marabou
Collar: Teal
Wing: Bronze Mallard
 

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#4 ·
Pastortd Tell me something

I have posted a few flies on this site....but they are not nearly the size of your wonderful flies....how do you do it? I have taken digital photos, then I open them up in paint and reduce the image to about 75% so they dont exceed the 3,000 byte max....please let me in on your method

Best regards....Jake
 
#6 ·
Re: Pastortd Tell me something

Norseman said:
how do you do it?
I tie flies no smaller than 9/0! Makes it really easy!

No - just kidding. My "photos" are actually scans. I lie the fly on the scanner bed, cover with a piece of white, non-glare paper, and scan away. If you start at a high resolution, you end up with the image being as much as thousands of pixels by thousands, and reduction goes from there. In my case, I have to do a lot of tweaking with the light/contrast and hue/saturation controls, but generally end up with a pretty accurate scan.

It is very easy with a "flat" fly like a spey or wet fly. Not so easy with dry flies and some nymphs. The circular hackle lends much more of a 3D effect, and throws a lot of shadows on the scan.
 
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Yes, I think the scanner is the way to go, I am having trouble with the Digital camera method. My scanner broke last year when one of my sons gave it a good knock it went inop. Have to think about a new one.

Any body have any recommendations on what is good for fly pictures ?

PM Out
 
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#12 ·
Can't beat the digi-cam, you need one with at least 3M. pixels.

The more the better. Scanners are OK, but you loose some definition. Visioneer makes a decent flat bed scanner for around $300. You will probably some typr of OCR or Phot shop software to go with the scanner. The stuff sent with it is pretty watered down.
 
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