day5

yep im in for sure. let me know.

It would be my first but Id be interested.

Right on flh20!!! Right on!!!! I guess I have done it all and continue to do it all. I spin fish I fly fish I dunk bait I throw a cast net for bait!? I fish flies on both a spinning rod and a fly rod. It all has its place and time. I guess I do not like to limit my self to one thing. I fish berrien springs dam here in MI for steel in the fall and spring there are to many spin guys around for me to fly fish so I spin fish and drift flies. But ther may not be a better place to fish for steel in MI and be assured of a bite. Yea the PM is pretty and bla bla blaaaa..... I really do not care where I am who is next to me what I am using what the guy next to me is using as long as we all respect the fish and the water and of coarse catch fish. I guess I fish To catch fish first and I Fly Ties to catch fish and as long as my flies continue to produce Ill get dirty looks and snikers from the snobs. Thanks for letting me vent later guys!!!!

I am sometimes made to feel like a real dindong in some of the fly shops that I visit. It seem that there are some unwritten rules to tying that I do not know. I have only been tying for about a year and I like to do diffrent things than most. Where I fish it is the same thing from fisherman to fisherman. They are all throwing the same things. So I like to make things that are diffrent than the others. But I get some strange looks and snikers from some of the shop keepers when I tell them that I use small spinner blades and rattles in my flies. Or that I have dismantled most of my kids toys for diffrent materials. Are there unwirtten rules? Or is it that I do not fish for trout and spend my days (you got to love Michigan) drifting for steel. I am not tying to tie the perfect bug look a like. I tie what catches fish. May be if they treid a ratteling craw for skamiania they would under stand. I have even been told that I am leaving the fly world and moving over to lures. Oh well I catch fish and even land a few to. They can keep there rules!

www.whatsthatbug.com check it out they have some good info and some great pics

How do I get involved in the swaps? Is there a application?

I got burned on a wana be zeti "best vise on ebay" My tail!!! That thing was as loose as a skamaina in heat!!!! if you want a inexpensice vise go for a danvise I got mine on ebay for under 60. Stay with name brands if you want to get some thing that wont make you wish you hadn't

I bought a dan vise(the composite one) on ebay last fall. Great vise so far. Do any of you know where I can get replacement jaws, lever cam, genral parts etc....... I seem to have clamped on a misplaced bass bug hook and bent the tip of the jaws a bit. now I have to put small hooks in deeper than Id like to in order to get them to hold. I tried a google all that I get are ebay listings. Oh 57 dollars shipped for the vise if you are wondering ya got to love ebay!!!!

Hey addict try e bay for 100 counts or order from you local fly shope I get mine from my local shop @ 12 cents each @ 100

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by day5: Ratteling craw

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by day5: Day 5 ratteling skirtted worm

Well the never ending Winter finally ended here in Michigan. I am a steelhead fisherman I mostly fish flies with a spinning rod on a bottem rig or under a float. I just bought my first fly rod this winter and I am awating the gills to bed up so I can cut my teeth the right way. I just started tying flies last November. I have really started to enjoy it and get confident enough to look at some one elses pattern or a fly at a fly shop and be able to tie it or use it for insperation. My home waters are the St Joe the Dowgiac River and the Paw Paw river. My passion is steel. My love is Redfish. If I could go flats fishing for Reds and the next day stand in 35 degree water for steel Id do it as often as possible. (or untill I got sick form the weather changes) But I dont own my own plane so I guess Im stuck in the great white north untill my next visit to the space coast. I am excited to be a part of this site. Matt