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Thanks! I remember ya...

North of Selkirk.

Thanks, man. I'm going trout fishing today for the first time in a year. Exactly a year, in fact. At about 8:30am one year ago I was fishing on the Rifle somewhere below Sage Lake Road and landed an 11 1/2 inch brown on an Adams. I missed him on the first cast to the tip of a sweeper from ankle deep water, so I let him rest for a few minutes. I dropped the fly just upstream of the sweeper and as it hit the eddy at the tip of the sweeper, he boiled the water. After a short fight on my 4wt, he was swimming back upstream to his hole. Hope to do that again today, somewhere down here.

Looking good, Ray.

Well, now that my pup is on his way to being "trained" I'm starting to have time to fish and tie flies again. Maybe even join some swaps.... SHR Rigby's Tonkin Trout Grass aka Tonka I look forward to connecting with those of you I've missed and maybe meeting some new folks....

Got mine a couple days ago. Looking good, folks. Thanks, BB, great swap as always!

Well, he'll still get to play with the wings, just no blue feathers.... I plucked some for myself, too. :devil: BTW, keep the extra flies, too.

Flies went in the mail today, BB.

Aww, man, here I was hopin' for one o' them big ol' deer hair frogs.... j/k, RRSS, they look good to me.

Purple Damsel. This work for a floater? Hairline purple pearl core braid, purple craft foam, parachute post of Uni Glow Yarn for night fishing, and hackle (badger maybe, I forget?). Oh, yeah, round foam eyes I'm leaving white so you can color them with whatever color Sharpie you want. The chironomid is a chromie, at least that's what I call them. -OPK (I've seen posts by an imposter "PK")

Good grief, what kind of sharpshooter do you think I am? :bugeyes: And the mallard wings need to be saved for (get ready for the fly tying heresy) the new pup's bird training. :devil: Oh, BTW, the floater is a damselfly, and I'll be needin' your address yet again, in case I can't find it from the last several times. - OPK (Original PK)

Let's see, last April, ruptured disc in the c-spine, then physical therapy, then goose season, then duck season, then deer season, duck season, late goose season, and here we are!

Hey, BB, what's this swap thing y'all are doing? J/k, got space for me? I always like your swaps....some sort of hopper/cricket/beetle/damsel with a chironomid dropper, if that's ok... PK

Hey, BB, what's this swap thing y'all are doing? J/k, got space for me? I always like your swaps....some sort of hopper/cricket/beetle/damsel with a chironomid dropper, if that's ok... PK

No decision yet. I'm still lurking and reading the posts. We probably won't decide until the pup is home.

Just trying to combine my two favorite outdoor pastimes; duck hunting and flyfishing.... Sooty Summer Olive aka Ollie? -PK (the original) BTW, I preferred your swimming pigs avatar....always thought it was kinda cute.

I have two. One where I keep a narrative version of the trip; who i was with, where we went, who fell in, and memorable/numerous anecdotes. The other is where I record technical data. I figure someday, long after I'm dead, some ancestor of mine can try to publish the narrative one and make lots of money off me.

I'm looking for help naming a black lab male pup. See this post for the parameters within which I'm working. http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry451033 Thanks!

I'm looking for help naming a black lab male pup. Please see this post in Entomology for the parameters. http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry451033 Thanks!

Ok, slightly off topic, but not completely. We are getting a male black lab pup and I want the registration name to be fly fishing/tying related. If it was a chocolate female I had settled on Bamboo Mahogany Dun, aka Maggie. If it was a yellow lab male it would be Pale/Dark (depending upon dog's shade) Sulphur Drake aka Sully. So far the only BLM name I can come up with is Early Black Stone aka Earl, and Earl doesn't roll off the tongue for casting the pup to ducks and geese. Thanks! (Topic title's typos are the result of the autocorrect function of my Droid....if someone knows how to turn it off, PM me.)

Have you met his kids? Quiet time???? Happy Birthday, bro.

Thanks for the tutorial, Floyd. It's easier than it looks!

I got my flies on Friday. Great flies everyone! Floyd, I'd love to see a tutorial on how you tied that spinner's tail. BB, thanks for having me, great swap as always! :headbang: -PK

You're welcome, BB. As you could probably tell, I'm tired of catching the little 'gills, so I tied these a little bit bigger. The extras were a couple flies I tied up at the show back in December. The bigger one needs a fast strip, rest, slow strip, rest kind of retrieve to get the best action out of it. -PK

Hey all, flies went in the mail yesterday just before noon, so they should be leaving town this morning and, if memory serves, in BB's hands by the weekend, or monday at the latest. BB: I threw in a couple of SM flies for ya'. Hope you like them! -PK