Jacks Grampa
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I'm recently back to fly tying after 10-12 years away from it. I'm not seeing Cree Necks listed in tying supplies on line. Are they scarce now or called something else now days?
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WD-40 isn't the best thing to use. Kroil is.
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Thanks all. I feel better about not epoxying now.
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I've built a few rods and use color preserver but not epoxy. No problems so far and much easier to replace a guide.
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Does epoxying the wraps strengthen the rod or just make more durable wraps?
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Thompson once made a midge jaw for the A-vise. Back when I could see the tiny ones that's what I tied them on.
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Off to the taxidermy man
Jacks Grampa replied to Jacks Grampa's topic in Fly Fishing Gear & Techniques
I sometimes fish micro-light. Maybe there's micro-taxidermy. -
Thanks. I'll check it out.
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Why don't we have one? I have a lot of duplicates in both tools and materials.
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That desk is entirely too tidy.
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About three years ago. Most people in this world are good, honest and well meaning. It's the jerks that get most of the attention.
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As I get older I find it difficult to focus on the fly in the vise without a sheet of paper behind the vise. Does anyone else find this so?
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$150.00
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I once left a nice rod and reel at a boat ramp. Went back a couple days later and someone had put up a sign with their phone number on it saying they'd found a rod and reel. I called and described it and they met me to give it back.
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Pretty fish. Bull trout and brook trout have been hybridizing in Montana.Big like a bull trout and take a dry fly like a brook trout. Big fun.
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Bull creek fishes well upstream from 360 along Spicewood Springs road. And from the trail head at the base of Scotland Wells about a 1/4 upstream is a spillway that holds some 5lbs. bass but they're real bashful.
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Are you local? If so you need to check out the San Gabriel and if you have a boat there's good fishing in downtown Austin.
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I've fished that little stream for 50 years. It's prettier and cleaner now than I've ever seen it. Living waters is a treasure too. That stream has good fishing from Cedar Park to nearly Hutto. Enjoy it.
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My Sage 390RPL is the same sniper rod it was when I got 30 years ago.
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I just put a S.A. Mastery bass taper line on my 6wt. for bass. I've fished 444 for decades but I'm not going back.
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Thanks. First I've seen with orange on the fins. Seems a bit late for spawn but I'll keep an eye out for beds in the shallows. It hit that booger like it was mad at it.
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Looks fine. Not crowded head like a lot of mine. One more wrap won't hurt isn't always true.
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Sounds like a Texas shower. We got 3" in 45 minutes one day last spring. At one point for a couple minutes my weather station was showing 9.9" per hour. Couldn't see my back fence 50' away.
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I thought about fishing from a kayak but if I hooked a big one I'd get excited and end up in the water with the fish.