A while back, while wading the web, I stumbled across the website of the "Global Fly Fisher. In my further examination, I found a wonderful article by Bas Verschoor called " Philatelic Phlies." His article is a very well written item on the melding of two hobbies, fly tying and stamp collecting. Until that time, I had only "collected" a single set of the United States flies which were issued in 1991 (to tie someday). Bas's article fanned a flame and off I went to collect the many fishing fly stamps that have been issued. I have now become quite proficient in sifting through eBay to locate the various stamp sets and am still attempting to round out my collection of MNH (mint, never hinged), FDCs (First Day Card or Cover), strips, se-tenant strips (se-tenant: an unseparated set of stamps, usually a strip), and numerous other stamp collecting identifiers that slip my mind at the moment. What followed was the challenge of finding the recipes to tie the various patterns. I have spent hours trying to find them on the web and have assembled my collection here. This is a work in progress (aka: Under Construction) but I get tired of seeing those little signs posted around the web. Here, where I am still in need, I have left a blank or posted some notation. If you can help complete this collection for the benefit of others, please share any information you have with me and I will post as I can. As of August 2003, I had the good fortune of establishing contact with Mr. Barry Kent who tied the flies for the Transkei stamps. He has provided some much needed recipes! I will provide links where I can and do have this LINKS Page. Thanks for visiting, Keith Holm (Phlytyer)
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