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Everything posted by Sandan
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Same here, hope you and yours are also. It's winter so w we're down to 26s
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The Pretty Missus. Great Valentines day gift.
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Of course you do. 😉
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Maybe call it, the missus? It's very nice no matter what you name it.
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Thank you, sir
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Thank you my friend.
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Another golden stone. Thread: UTC 70 den, wood duck Hook: Size 10, 2xl, 2xh Bead: 1/8" gold tung Rib: Sulky gold holoshimmer Under abdomen: sow scud amber dubbing Abdomen: Natural turkey biot. Antenna/Tails: Amber turkey biots Wingcase: brown kreelex w/ sloarez bone dry, ultra thin Legs: Hungarian Partridge back feathers .015 lead free wire from the bead to just past 1/3 of the shank.
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Thank you Mark.
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Just tying for fun and fish. A golden stone. Hook: Size 10, 2xl, 2xh Bead: gold tung 1/8" Tail/antenna: tannish yellow Nature's Spirit goose biots Thorax: Amber goose biots Rib: Sulky gold holoshimmer Abdomen: Awesome Possum golden stone Legs: Whiting speckled yellow CDL hen saddle feather Wingcase: brown Kreelex .015 lead, well lead free, from the bead to 1/3 down the shank. Solarez ultra thin bone dry on the wingcase.
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@mvendon. Very nice, err, mice.
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Chug to the rescue!!
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@Rick58, @Mark Knapp, @ ArkansasMike Thank you gentlemen. Mike, my buddy thought that PT variation was a really nice one too.
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I like that one much better. Good job. The head is really good. Still it looks like you're starting the hackle too far back. Try tying the hackle in above the barb and leave a small amount of bare stem between where you tie it in and the first barbules. The wing looks much better in terms of being nice and even. I still say those "blunt" hairs have to go. Of course the fish don't care, or do they? What I also like is that you aren't switching patterns willy nilly but rather working on that EHC to get it down. Don't quit now.
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Fantastic job, niveker!
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Thursday night's Bugs and Bourbon: Charlie Craven Jujubee midge. Size 22. Recipe is on the net. And a pheasant tail variation. Hook: TMC U203 size 22 Thread: Uni 8/0 camel Tail and abdomen: pheasant tail fibers:4 Rib: UTC Small gold wire. Wingcase and legs: gray flouro fiber Thorax: Trouthunter CEN dubbing. Blackish brown
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Beauties!
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I'm a lefty also. Wrap away from you over the top of the hook shank. I think that's clockwise. For us lefties, wrapping eye to bend uncords(flattens) the thread. Bend to eye just the opposite. Keep up the good work and don't be ashamed to use that razor blade of you aren't satisfied. At each stage of the fly you can always go back to the previous stage if you're not happy with it. Sometimes when I'm experimenting with a new pattern I'll half hitch at the end of each stage so I can go back if I'm not satisfied without resorting to the razor. I hope that makes sense. There's also the theory that working on a particular technique until you're comfortable with it is a good practice before tying the complete fly. Anyhow, like I said, free advice is worth what you pay for it.
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Thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing your rendition, niveker. I put one up in the January thread.
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Not bad at all. I've heard it said that elk/ deer hair wings with broken tips are a turn off for the fish. Just kidding. It's hard to tell from the picture but it looks like there's some wild hackle towards the bend. How far back did you tie it in? Before the bend, at the bend or further back? The only other critique I'd add is that I like how you wrapped through the head, but either too many wraps or cord the thread up or make sure those wraps are one on top of the other. IMHO, 2 wraps through the head are plenty. Then whip finish in front of the head. I'm thinking that you might have whipped on those through wraps. Anyhow free advice is worth what you pay for it.
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Norm, that is a beauty. As always. Since I put an Atherton #3 up on the challenge thread I figured I'd tie one too. Hook: TMC 100 size 14 Thread: Pearsall's lt yellow silk Tail: med pardo CDL. Body: blended Semperfli sparkle dubbing seal and semperfli seal sub yellow. Rib: UTC small oval gold French tinsel Wing: Lemon wood duck flank feather. Hackle: one each Whiting pro, natural dun and dark barred ginger.
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Couple of midge patterns. Both on 24. Ones a 2487 and the other is a 2488. A Rick Takahashi biot midge pupa. That's the one with the glamour madeira gills and biot wing buds. Body is .05mm stretch magic. The other one is a Hopper Juan pattern. The money midge. Veevus 16/0 brown, brown slim rib, head is thread colored black with a sharpie.
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Thank you, sir.
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Keep up the stellar work Nick!
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Some 16 IOBO Humpy. Hook: Fulling mill 5050 size 16 Thread: UTC 70d Gray brown Body and wing: Trouthunter caddis tan CDC When palmering the thread from the bend to the eye binding down the body, I used some trouthunter light gray CDC dubbing instead of bare thread. Next up is Atherton's #3 tied dry.