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    Scottk and vicrider,

     

    I am pretty sure that the olive and natural Hungarian partridge skins I have, while expensive, were the best purchase I have made for tying flies. I use them for all the time they make great legs, soft hackles and even tails. You get a really good range of sizes a good number of each size, the best part is the ease of finding different size feathers. The first partridge I purchased was in the little bags and I was so disappointed, there was almost no usable feathers, it was a total waste of money.

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    I love Maine and I love brookies.

     

    I happen to be lucky enough to live near a place that has very healthy populations of naturally reproducing brookies and I don't visit often enough. Your post inspired me to go up and make a visit to the little guys soon.

     

    Nice pictures. Seems like you had a good trip. Congrats.

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    I like to think that when I make purchases for fly fishing and tying I purchase gear that is of good quality and high functionality but not a super high price. All three of my rods are TFO because they work well and have a very reasonable price point. The one place I didn't skimp was my waders and boots. Last fall I got a pair of Patagonia Rio Gallegos waders and Simms Guide boots at a 30% discount and while the total was a tough pill to swallow I have been very very happy that I didn't skimp that purchase the fit and function is fantastic on both.

     

    Thinking about it I also don't skimp on fly lines either all of my lines are Rio or Scientific Anglers.

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    Over all nice looking work but I believe you are looking for constructive criticism. The stone fly nymph would be better with thinner rubber leg material and a different hook, a 2X or 3X long streamer with a down eye will provide much more consistant hook ups, as the 200R and others like it are very poor in that regard.The other thing you can do if you change to a 3X streamer hook is to bend the shank down slightly about 1/3 of the way back from the eye of the hook. I would also pinch off the tail fibers by about 1/3 on the damsel fly nymph at least. The Stimulaters fish ability will improve by going to a hook like the Daiichi 1280 2X long Dry Fly hook or the hook you used for the last two flies. I tie the tails and wings for stimulators quite a bit fuller but also shorter. The Yellow Stimulator you pictured does not look like it will float very well due to the hook, the sparseness of the tail and front hackle. I'm not familiar with Vermont as to the type of water you will be fishing, keep a note book and watch your flies on the water to see if they working as you expected them too and note the possible changes to make in them and also check there proportions against the real bugs they imitating. I have tried many different body materials over the years for the stimulator as it has been a popular fly here in Montana for a long time. I went to a soft closed cell foam cut in thin strips and wrapped with the rear palmered hackle at the same time thus improving the float ability of the fly and improved its durability by protecting the hackle stem at the same time. Guiding a lot of new fisherman I was always looking to make my flies as unsinkable as possible for the newbies and predominant ruff water conditions of the rivers that I guided on.

    Bruce,

     

    So you prefer a straight shank hook for the stimulator? The hook I'm using is a Umpqua U203. Those were my first stimulators and have since been scrapped and the hooks recycled into new ones. I now use waspi superfine for them. I have about a dozen or so that have been fishing well but the next time I'm going to tie some up with foam.

    As for the nymph. I agree with the comment about the rubber legs some smaller diameter would probably work better but I am pretty sure the hook was a 3xl with a down eye. Either way I didn't have any success with it the couple times I used it.

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    Over all nice looking work but I believe you are looking for constructive criticism. The stone fly nymph would be better with thinner rubber leg material and a different hook, a 2X or 3X long streamer with a down eye will provide much more consistant hook ups, as the 200R and others like it are very poor in that regard.The other thing you can do if you change to a 3X streamer hook is to bend the shank down slightly about 1/3 of the way back from the eye of the hook. I would also pinch off the tail fibers by about 1/3 on the damsel fly nymph at least. The Stimulaters fish ability will improve by going to a hook like the Daiichi 1280 2X long Dry Fly hook or the hook you used for the last two flies. I tie the tails and wings for stimulators quite a bit fuller but also shorter. The Yellow Stimulator you pictured does not look like it will float very well due to the hook, the sparseness of the tail and front hackle. I'm not familiar with Vermont as to the type of water you will be fishing, keep a note book and watch your flies on the water to see if they working as you expected them too and note the possible changes to make in them and also check there proportions against the real bugs they imitating. I have tried many different body materials over the years for the stimulator as it has been a popular fly here in Montana for a long time. I went to a soft closed cell foam cut in thin strips and wrapped with the rear palmered hackle at the same time thus improving the float ability of the fly and improved its durability by protecting the hackle stem at the same time. Guiding a lot of new fisherman I was always looking to make my flies as unsinkable as possible for the newbies and predominant ruff water conditions of the rivers that I guided on.

    Bruce,

     

    So you prefer a straight shank hook for the stimulator? The hook I'm using is a Umpqua U203. Those were my first stimulators and have since been scrapped and the hooks recycled into new ones. I now use waspi superfine for them. I have about a dozen or so that have been fishing well but the next time I'm going to tie some up with foam.

    As for the nymph. I agree with the comment about the rubber legs some smaller diameter would probably work better but I am pretty sure the hook was a 3xl with a down eye. Either way I didn't have any success with it the couple times I used it.

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    Flies are on the way.

     

    I had originally tied up a deer hair emerger pattern and wasn't really liking them that much so I tied up some black x-caddis flies. After getting a couple hook ups fishing the deer hair emerger between a large Bead head P.T. Nymph and a stimulator during an emergence of large mayflies I decided to send out both of them.

     

    Hope you all enjoy!

     

    Thanks for Having me in this swap.

     

    -Will

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