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niveker

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  1. Agree 100% - Is it heavy enough, light enough, long enough, is the gape big enough, shaped correctly -- -- for what you're tying.
  2. Me too, another great set. You guys and gals never cease to amaze me. Thanks to all and Nick for hosting
  3. As much as I dislike snow, I always enjoyed those quick spring snowstorms that disappeared within a day or two.
  4. Welcome from MA. Great post, great contributions to the site so far, hope to see more. I lived a few miles NE of Rio Rancho in Santa Fe back in the 90's for a few years, quite the culture shock for an Irish Yankee, but I loved it. Rode that tramway more times than I like to think about when visitors came. I was more into skiing than fly fishing at the time, but did do some of the latter, though not enough as I look back. Incredibly beautiful country there, would love to get back sometime.
  5. Looks good, first I heard of the pattern
  6. A few things that I do to keep the hair from spinning: - wrap thread or dubbing on the shank in the area that you are going to tie in the deer hair and/or - one loose wrap around the clump of hair only before taking one or two loose wraps around the shank, with your fingers pinch the clump nice and tight on top of shank when tightening, then a wrap or two around the shank only, beneath the deer hair, and back to the wrapping whole kit and kaboodle. The firm pinch wraps and then going under the clump of hair I think is the key.
  7. I think it really depends on what type of tying and fishing you do: tiny dries and nymphs, saltwater streamers, but Bergman's book is pretty much a staple, IMO. And a good read, too.
  8. Brooks' Rainbow Blond Not sure if Brooks did a rainbow pattern in his blond series, but if he did it would look something like this, only better Hook: #8, 2xl Thread: White switch to black for head Tail: White bucktail Body: Coats & Clark Metallic Thread, silver (original used flat silver tinsel) Wing: Olive over pink bucktail
  9. Quail & Purple Hook: GCO #14, 1xsh, 2xst Thread: Kimono 100, purple (# 329) Tail/Shellback: Pheasant tail Rib: Fine silver wire Body: Kimono 100, purple (# 329) Thorax: FTD UV-X Rainbow dubbing, purple in a split thread Hackle: California quail EDIT: And a pink one for good measure - the pink doesn't really show up in the photos. Hendrickson Snowshoe Emerger Hook: #14 caddis Thread: Olive, 70d Shuck: Aunt Lydia's, brown Body: Great Pyrenees, dyed pink Wing: Snowshoe foot, dun Head: Great Pyrenees, dyed pink
  10. Nice. I like the idea of using the dyed craft feathers, saves the step of hitting them with a marker. Splitting them is a PITA. I like the look of them both ways, trimmed and not, probably one fishes as well as the other, but I haven't fished them yet so don't know.
  11. Welcome to the site @toboden. For nymphs, in my opinion, no it doesn't make a difference to the fish, so also no, they don't fish worse. Personally, I would rather leave a tail a little bit long than cut it. Your ties all look good, I really like the top two and bottom right.
  12. Maybe if I started drinking better bourbon I could tie like that. Worth a shot (or two) anyways
  13. Everything I tie is to be used, by me or someone else. My son, who's a bit of an electronics nerd, uses some old Sunrise vise's I had lying around to hold bits and pieces when soldering.
  14. Nice fish, DF. I'm always amazed at how those freshly stocked rainbows take to the air.
  15. Looks great with that brown mallard.
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