SFR interesting ancient story

[clarkman]

Does anyone else just see fly tying materials there?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/07/11/mammoth-fossil-genome/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

 

[Evan B]

Does anyone else just see fly tying materials there?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/07/11/mammoth-fossil-genome/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Has a pay wall

 

[clarkman]

here's the important part....

 

[Matt B]

As the permafrost melts, maybe a market for mammoth patches will develop, @clarkman. The ad copy writes itself.
Want Mammoth Musky? You Need Mammoth Mane! etc.

 

[SilverFly]

Maybe just maaaybe, ancient Clarkman ancestors were responsible for mammoth extinction due to over harvest for fly materials. I imagine those stone age musky were nothing to toy around with. Possibly a cult started where the fly shamans tied larger and larger musky flies until the mammoths were no more!

 

[Matt B]

Could this be the beginning of a real life sequel to The Feather Thief?

 

[SilverFly]

Could this be the beginning of a real life sequel to The Feather Thief?

Yeah, but to be perfectly fair to Mr Clark, I also immediately saw awesome tying material. Albeit in the form of squid flies. Looks similar to nayat.

 

[Matt B]

Yeah, but to be perfectly fair to Mr Clark, I also immediately saw awesome tying material. Albeit in the form of squid flies. Looks similar to nayat.

Blasphemy! That’s like saying bald eagle tastes like chicken!

 

[_WW_]

Blasphemy! That’s like saying bald eagle tastes like chicken!

Well...it does!

 

[clarkman]

I dunno though, the way the researcher is holding that perfect bunch of hair makes me think that they're a fly tier themselves and probably would get the AAA stuff. By the time it gets to me, I'd probably be looking at B-side material....but still, I want some!

 

[SculpinSwinger]

I dunno though, the way the researcher is holding that perfect bunch of hair makes me think that they're a fly tier themselves and probably would get the AAA stuff. By the time it gets to me, I'd probably be looking at B-side material....but still, I want some!

They even gave it nice taper before holding it in a way that shows its relative stiffness. Put me on the list.

 

[clarkman]

They even gave it nice taper before holding it in a way that shows its relative stiffness. Put me on the list.

I KNOW!

PI: hey what happened to all of these hairs containing potentially life changing DNA?

fly tying researcher: ....hey look

 

[Jacob Watrous]

Does anyone else just see fly tying materials there?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/07/11/mammoth-fossil-genome/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

I know I do.

If corgis make excellent clousers and tube flies, why not a mammoth?

 

[clarkman]

I know I do.

If corgis make excellent clousers and tube flies, why not a mammoth?

I need to get another Sptinger...fuck these Labs! Kidding...obviously (hopefully).

 

[Guy Gregory]

If corgis make excellent clousers and tube flies, why not a mammoth?

I’d imagine it’s harder to get a mammoth to hold still long enough to be lashed to a hook. Corgis are trouble enough.

 

[Jacob Watrous]

I need to get another Sptinger...fuck these Labs! Kidding...obviously (hopefully).

Run a slicker brush over a black lab and you’ve got legs and tails for days. Yellows are good for sulphur, and can make a serviceable caddis x.

 

[Jacob Watrous]

If corgis make excellent clousers and tube flies, why not a mammoth?

I’d imagine it’s harder to get a mammoth to hold still long enough to be lashed to a hook. Corgis are trouble enough.

Hold still? Man, we’re talkin live bait here.

 

[clarkman]

Run a slicker brush over a black lab and you’ve got legs and tails for days. Yellows are good for sulphur, and can make a serviceable caddis x.

X caddis? Wtf? I thought you knew me!

I'm guessing those suggestions are trout oriented? Gross!

 

[Jacob Watrous]

X caddis? Wtf? I thought you knew me!

I'm guessing those suggestions are trout oriented? Gross!

Somewhere I have a photo of the permit I caught on a 1/0 PTN. You gotta expand your horizons, my man. This world is too big for narrow mindsets.