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samsonboi

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  1. Yes I've said this a few times and Tier's response was "Grayling aren't like your weak stream fish" or something like that. News flash: Yes, they are like the fish here, no they are not weak but they can't take that abuse and you should take good care of them. That slime? The fish can get an infection if it's scraped off. If you have to touch the fish wet your hand first and for the sake of all that's trouty don't chuck it on the ground! You really need to get better at this. I'm not trying to make you feel like you're a bad person or inferior in any way and neither are the posters before me, we're just giving good advice. You don't have to listen to it in the same way there is nothing forcing you to listen to your parents. It's just a bad idea not to.
  2. Just grab a decent little vise like a Griffin Spider-Cam or the Peak vise. A lot cheaper and works just as well.
  3. Yeah but @flytire it didn’t work anyway, I was careful and only applied reasonable torque to a point that would unscrew a stuck screw but not break a press fit, soldered, or epoxied seal.
  4. Synthetic dry hackle=garbage. Polypro wings, dubbing, microfibbet tails, etc all have their place but as a beginner get one of those dubbing boxes that has like 12 different labeled compartments with preloaded dubbing. Start with a good couple of genetic hackle capes (get the grab bag of 4 different colors for $60 from collinshacklefarm.com mail order. It’s really great stuff.) and a box of dubbing. You can make dries without wings from just dubbing, a hackle, and a couple more fibers from a hackle feather for a tail. And you can turn them to spent spinners by clipping the top and bottom. Also you can make a caddis fly by using hackle fibers to make a wing like you would make a tail just behind the hackle. It’s called a Fluttering Caddis.
  5. UTC 70 denier (8/0) and whatever the denier is for 6/0, Uni-Thread in 6/ and 8/0, or Danville’s in those sizes- both their flat waxed nylon and mono cord work great. These are my 3 favorite threads for regular work (plus Pearsalls and Belding-Corticelli for soft hackles but of course you can’t split them) those 3 thread brands are the only regular fly tying threads I ever buy for market price. I’ll get other brands in silk such as Morus which is basically Pearsalls but as for nylon/Kevlar/GSP/etc I’ll stick to those 3 unless I can buy others on a massive discount etc. as for sizes I rarely use anything over 8/0 in nylon for anything but nymphs (6/0), streamers (3-8/0 depending on size and materials, 3/0 for only hard or difficult materials like squirrel tail), spun deer hair (3/0 or 6/0), and big dries (6/0).
  6. Ok so... I applied a lot of torque to the barrel and it did not turn. Yes, it is one piece to the joint. There’s a material holding the threads from moving. It’s very hard to see. I could not tell if this was epoxy or a very, very good weld or solder job.
  7. It’s threaded but it doesn’t want to come off. That’s what I meant. In the interest of science I’ll monkey with mine a bit more, I tried to unscrew it but it didn’t want to. The screw might be permanently epoxied in??? I don’t know. I’ll let you know what I find out messing with mine.
  8. Um, that's a very general question. What for? Dry fly wings, tails, bodies, ??? It really just depends on what pattern and what use. Get a good fly tying book.
  9. I'm pretty sure the barrel and the upper stem joint are all one piece. The joint can be unscrewed at the little screw about 1/2 inch or so down the stem. To answer the OP- no, you cannot put the Traveler head on the Renzetti stem.
  10. The Regal Revolution IS a "true rotary" vise because the jaws are offset in the head. It's a great vise, why get a lower-cost rotary as well? For a travel vise or something? You could get the Griffin Spider-Cam, which is a very good vise, but honestly unless you actually need it as a travel vise, you're just wasting your money since you already have a Revolution.
  11. Rootbeer +1 but make it Birch Beer please, I like it more. 🤣 Generally an extra dry Champagne if I HAD to pick something alcoholic. I don't think I'll ever be a big drinker, even when I'm no longer underage.
  12. "Furnishing alcohol to one's own children is permitted in 31 states, while it's illegal to do so for other people's children in all fifty states." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_by_youth_in_the_United_States#cite_note-alcoholpolicy.niaaa-3
  13. Lol yeah I’m not religious and neither are my parents but when I go to visit my grandparents in Arizona I go to synagogue with them. Wish they still lived in NY though.
  14. It is actually legal if you are in your own house with parent’s permission- or if it’s part of a religious ceremony such as communion, Seder, Kiddush, etc.
  15. 70-75 is perfect brown trout weather. Great for Broo too but upper end. We get that weather a lot but sometimes up to 80s and 90s on really hot days. I prefer 65-70 for brookies, 69 being absolutely ideal for brookies AND browns- my favorite temp. At that temperature the water will be the best temperature, about 60-63 degrees.
  16. It’s a 2/0. A 2 weight would massively overload it.
  17. That happens every time I get a tick! One day I had this awful dream while sleeping in the car- I dreamed my headrest turned into a massive bundle of ticks just as I put my head down on it.
  18. Apparently there is also a model for s-l-lr. The one I use sometimes (I mostly use a 5-shot bolt action Winchester .22 s/l/lr or a Sako Rikimaki .222 Rem.) is very small (as in small overall length) for .22 short only, I'm reasonably sure, (can't check now, there is a possibility that I'm wrong and it does also take long and lr cartridges) but there is a model that's bigger.
  19. The gun you are talking about is an early model Winchester (pat. 1876 or thereabouts) chambered for .22 short cartridges that was produced for a long time. You could prob find one of them cheap at a gun show.
  20. Other than the Au Sable Bomber, badger, brown, and black Bivisibles are my three favorites in the style of palmered flies.
  21. Sorry! But your box is in the mail and should get there a day or two after the flies.
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