Indyflycaster

Will I will take 2 shirts - 2xl - Maroon color. Thanks Dan Sutton

Plumbob Thanks for the tip. The hackle is the hardest part. Oh yeh! I forgot to memtion that I tie these 28-32 size flies with 18/0 thread!!!

Just practicing my tiny flies tying. # 28 Elk hair caddis :bugeyes: :bugeyes: :bugeyes: :bugeyes:

Sure a pedestal is nice, but if you sit and tie flies for hours sometimes as I do, it's nice to have the vice down low, so that you have your arms lower for reduced strain on the neck and shoulders. Here is a pic of my vice mount that lets it hang lower than the desk top. It uses a large c-clamp and 3/8" rod bent 90 degrees, with a custom vice bracket to hold the post. Oh the arms say ahhhhh!

Hamp I used a old keyboard pull-out for my thread storage. Just added a couple of small wood dividers, and the spools lay in very nicely. And it holds alot of spools. Keyboard pull-outs are available as a separate item from Rocklers woodworking supplies.

The timber wolf nymph is the only one I have ever seen

SteelDrifter My son is in Iraq, and he and several buddies ran across the patch of grass of few weeks ago, walked on it, and then went back to their barrocks (tents). The next day Sept. 10, His best friend (who didn't walk on the grass) was killed in action. True story! I just now saw the pic of the grass today.

Received flies today! Great work all. Flies are quite a nice sampling of fly tying forum's abilities. Will fish these this weekend!! :yahoo: :yahoo:

Waiting here as well. Have a trip planned for this weekend. It gonna be close!!

I agree. All fly tiers attempt tp to tie flies that resemble an insect or other food source that a particular fish might be interested in eating. Duh, that why we tie!. But, some of us get so immersed with trying to imitate an insect so closely that we spend hours tying and sculpting to make a "realistic fly". Then it becomes a matter of whether we want to throw these creations and take the chance of losing them to the almighty submerged stump!! Hence the likes of the classic salmon fly, terestrials, aquatics and others. We become artists if I may, trying to create a "perfect" artificial fly. It becomes a lifestyle.

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by handyman: Bullet (click link for more info)

You know folks - I have lost a grandmother, a father, a mother, a sister all to cancer over the last couple of years, and now my niece has the damn disease. I say tie as many flies as you can, fish as much as you can, and the hell with the small things like "what if I contract bird flu"!!! Live out loud!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

J Tapio Don't you think a little competition between tyers for realism would be fun? I mean an actual juried vote on the most realistic flies. I think you guys from Europe would be hard to beat, but I still think it would bring out alot of creative tyers.

Just thought I might say that the cigar fly was put into an auction for a local club fundraisor, and it brought $65. Who would have thunck?

Well I must say that the bat was definately a little bit of a challenge. After spinning the deer hair and trimming most of the body, I used Soft-tex and the old two-finger tango for about a half-hour while it hardened on the wings, continuously "stroking" the long hair fibers out to form the wings. My fingers looked as if I had eaten donuts for a week, with as much Soft-tex on my fingers as on the fly. I'm sure it would take a 12 weight to throw it. but it is one of those flies made more for fishermen than fish. Thanks for the compliments.