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Futzer

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About Futzer

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  • Birthday 07/15/1961

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  • Favorite Species
    Anything with big nasty bitin teeth
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    2008

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    http://www.fishcolorado.com
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    Park City, UT
  1. Flytyer14, even at the cheap price, I would not go a regal, the spring jaw grip is just not to my liking. Cheers, Futzer.
  2. Hi Dart, I wish I could show you my first fly, it was a black gnat, and about a 12, but it was 1968. Long gone. Second fly I think was a caddis pupae using a rubberband. Dear lord, thousands of bugs later, so many memories. I remember staring at the bins of flies at the Denver company, and oohing the impregnated bamboo rods in the Orvis catalog, all long before I could cast a bamboo fly rod. I do remember my first flyrod caught fish. Trickle park res in Western CO, a cutthroat, about 13 inches, cruising the shallows near dusk, a size 12 White Wulff and only 3 casts. I will never forget that evening. I could tell my dad was concerned, at the time I did not know why. Guess it was his prized Orvis rod in the hands of a 7 or 8 year old. I remember having the confidence of a adult with that rod.... Only recently did I remember that feeling, I do remember throwing a good loop and about 25 feet of line on a 9 footish leader. Cheers, Jeff.
  3. Very nice Greg, my only suggestion is to add some glow in the dark material to the shell back and front legs/antennae. Cheers, Futzer.
  4. AK Mike, trim your flash at a 45° angle, just a tip, Cheers, Jeff.
  5. Flytyer14, Bruce Derrington is holding a live video class on the 25th of March, I would really encourage you to join it and learn from Bruce. He is tying a Elk hair caddis. Cheers, Jeff.
  6. Hi Flytyer14, try this for fun. Tie the body very thinnly, keep the abdomen the same size, and use 2 super fine black rubber legs for the legs. Let me know how that works. Cheers, Futzer.
  7. Big thumbs up!! I do one similarly, with a different weave, I articulate the body to the hook. I use the loop on the body to a loop on the hook and tie down the front loop to the hook shank and head cement it before tying the abd and legs. That way it can gyrate in the water. Cheers, Jeff
  8. Check it out, http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/item/N...d-Feathers.html They have a natural oily aspect from the duck preening, so don't add other fly floatant to those bugs. Cheers, Futzer
  9. I still buy medium brown, ginger, etc. and grizzly to mix it how I want. Cree is lovely, but tough to get, so I got out of the habit for looking for it. When tying with it, I was more dissapointed with the color results than using a brown and a grizzly. When I hackle with two hackles I tie one in aft at the start of the hackle space and one just infront of the wings. I wrap the front one back and then forward and tie off, then wrap the back one forward. I think I get a more solid finished hackle this way. Anyway Titan, glad to see you are tying! Cheers, Jeff.
  10. Very nice Shrimp, I am anxious to here how effective it is. I have been playing with flylipps on damsel nymphs and scuds, by cutting them down. Have not gotten a good trip to use them yet. Lately been too busy with work. I might add a little glow in the dark materials in the body. Cheers, Jeff
  11. Utah is a year round state, but Jan 1st is a traditional opener for me, and I threw a #18 grey olive cadfly with a #30 Futzer's navel lint nymph as a dropper. I caught one rainbow and one small cutty on East Emmigration creek. Even though nothing was on the surface, I still have to start with a dry fly. Cheers, Futzer.
  12. Hey Salty, You know I am a DK Pro. enthusiast, and they really stand by their products, they even have made me several custom items. I would really recommend tying on them side by side if at all possible. One thing I have never liked on true rotary vices is laying in tiny split tails on micro bugs. The left side of my right wrist hits the vice and makes that uncomfortable to me. Granted I had tied for over 20 years before rotarys came out, but I wanted to make sure you tested that for yourself. Can't wait to see some new pattern photos off the new vice too. Cheers, Jeff
  13. J Stockard carries Hareline Mole http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi; or I have used synthetic and really ground it up fine in a electric coffee grinder. Super bug, clean, very clean, great photo too. Thanks Old Hat. Cheers, Jeff.
  14. Hi Scott, Welcome to the madness. There are many old posts in the forum with lots of good info on starting. In my opinion you have the correct outlook in starting. My best advice is to befriend a few shop rats at your local fly shop, nearly every shop I have ever been to is willing to let you demo a couple vices there. That is the best way to determine what you like. Also check out local tying clubs and lessons. Learn the basics from an experienced tyer, to avoid bad habits. Netflix also carries many tying DVDS. What type of flies are you interested in, that makes some difference too. Good luck, and be patient. Like anything it takes practice to get good. Repetition is key too, I like to say that you don't really master a pattern until you've tied 100 dozen of it. That is a little extreme, but the nay sayers usually have never tied that many of one pattern in their lives, let alone in one continuous order. And feel free to ask anything, no question is dumb. Cheers, Futzer.
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