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Just cut a section of small paper clip and tie it to the shaft of Mustad R50.

Very nice video!

Great fly, great pictures!

Very nice!

You sure do tie some nice flies!

I was thinking it looked like a normal Lincon head cent. Someone probably made a wish and shucked it in the water.

Wow! Perfect flies no doubt.

The new "trick" is CDC. I know a few guides that are tying nymphs with CDC thorax and letting the ends hang long. Everyone of them swears it makes a big difference in the number of fish caught. I have a few sets tied both ways to test this year. All use CDC, but some have legs and others are trimmed off. We'll see.

I've been testing the new Mustad R50 hooks in all sizes. My opinion so far is that they are well worth the little bit extra you have to spend on them. The dang things are super sharp right out of the box. I haven't lost a single fish on one yet and I sure can't say that about other hooks I've tested. As to whether or not your hooks are too brittle...if they were not broken, bent, or otherwise damaged you need to look elsewhere for your problems. If they're to hard they'll break, too soft they'll bend. Lost fish can be caused by the hook not being sharp enough, the barb too large, or the gape too small. It can also be cause by the fish never being "hooked" in the first place.

I honestly wish there was such a certification one could obtain. I'd like to try passing it some day. Granted it might be 20 years from now but I still think it would be cool. I've done this in other areas only to never use them as a profession. It's just one of those achievement things. You set a goal and see how far you can get. Some day you look back and see how far you've came towards your goal and smile. The cert just means others agree that you've improved to a level worth being proud of, not that you want everyone else to know about it. Many times you see people that think they are good at something when they truly stink at it. To me a Master should be able to tie all types of flies, dry, wet, bass, salmon, etc. I could see awarding one a title in an area of expertises though, such as, Catskills Master. Some people simply have no interest in other flies. A grand Master, or Fly Master title would mean the person has achieved that level in all areas. For now I think your name has to be Charlie Craven, Hans Weilenmann, Eric Austin (or something real close it ) if you're going to ware the tee-shirt. Anyone care to add other names?

This guy ties some very good flies and some are used in movies. He has step by steps on some of them. http://www.grahamowengallery.com/fishing/more-fly-tying.html

I'd like to see a SBS. I'm tying up large and small mouth flies now to try out this spring.

Believe it or not it's the deer hair. That hair wouldn't even compress or flair. I just bent it up and pushed it back. Here are two more done the same night, all three trimed with a new double edge blade. and another with the crappy hair. You can't even cut it with scissors.

I went and looked at all the patterns on the warm water site listed above and every pattern how two shows loose stacked deer hair on the hook. That is a pretty cool site with some neat patterns on it. I'm going to tie up a few tonight.

Check these out of you want to see someone that has deer hair mastered. http://www.gajaflies.it/deer_eng.html

Not really, I just started playing with it this week. This is really crappy deer hair that wouldn't spin or flare, but I was just playing around to see if it was possible. Please don't "grade the fly"

You do it by loose stacking, and spinning. Tight stack loose stack spin

look up Rainy's site. She sells a bunch of foam popper heads, formed and not.

This is my first try at stacking eyes in a bass bug. Last night I thought of a new way to combine white and black for the eyes. I'll give that a try this weekend.

I just had the same thing happen. I bought and used the DK until it simply wouldn't how any hooks at the front of the jaws. I bought another vise (different brand) and was shocked at how much better it was at holding hooks. DK wasn't even close to the new vise even when it was new. I do still use the DK for big bugs where the hooks required will set in one of the groves. Otherwise the DK is retired. My new vise is way easier to use and holds 100 times better.

I returned your PM, if that isn't what you were after let me know. All of these were just thrown together with whatever I had on hand at the time. Let me see if I can remember. The hooks are going to be Mustad standard dry fly hooks on the two you quoted. Very rarely do I ever use anything else. They're cheap. Back then I was using Danville 70 and it appears it was light brown. (sorry) The tail on one is pheasant barbs and the other (split tail) was the ends cut off of two porky quills. The tips of the quills are small and normally black. It looks like hackle tips for wings on one that I got from some cheap hackle purchased at Sportsmans Warehouse. The second is sparkle dub that was tied figure 8 style, purchased from the same store. You can hackle the flies with whatever you have on hand that is proper size. I used hackle someone sent me about a year ago. I believe it is from a Whiting Dun neck. Nothing special required working with the quills. They came that color and many colors are available. Just tie the small end and wrap. That helps with the tapered look because the quills get thicker and wider. I did cut about an inch off the small end because the tips wanted to break when starting the wrap. Remove the end solved the problem. The dubing was from a multi pack that had about 8 or 10 different colors in it, again nothing special. Most of the time I just grab stuff and tie in on the hook to see what works and what doesn't. I catch heck for it sometimes on other boards.

a few more

Here is another pattern with woven thread. woven sinew woven coper wire. woven CDC another copper Woven boo

They are one of my favorite flies to tie. I just search Google for different patterns and how to articles. This is a fly made of woven copper and nickel.

This is what I do with them.