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I'm with flytire. Some get hard to remove but they are very inexpensive.

Good choice Flytire..........its Skwala time.

Hey Flytire- Beautiful flies.

Not A Casual Dress Looks like a winner and nicely tied.

Great job!

You almost have to have your line in the water. Not the grass. Find a pond or slow stream to practice on.

Tom Morgan gave me a graphite Winston 8' 4 weight years ago (along with a couple others). It was a prototype rod that he built. I love the thing and fished the hell out of it. As you know Tom passed away a couple of years ago. I am afraid to fish it now for fear of breakage but I'm sure he would want me to. I also have my late fathers old glass rod that I pull out on his birthday. I also have my late brothers rod that I built for him back in the 80's that I will fish now and again.

Awesome cartoon Flytire

hey Heff2 Your Almost Swim Fly looks like an articulated Gartside Soft Hackle Streamer. Am I close? I have always thought of trying one of those.

It's funny. Many moons ago I went from Powerflex to Powerflex Plus and back to Powerflex again. I loved Powerflex but thought Powerflex Plus would be even better. It might be, but not for me. Even my clinch knots were weaker. I notice different guys like different stuff and I think it's in the way we tie our knots differently. Then again, I'm probably plum loco.

Poopdeck I'm happy to see that you didn't duck this challenge.

Looking good

This has been a dilemma for me for over half a century. It usually comes down to me parring down my gear and then I'm happy. Gear and too many flies can really get to be a burden. I either go big with a sling pack or very small with a cheap butt pack. Love the small butt pack.

That looks like a fun stick.

Jaydub and TSMcDougald ----- nice flies!