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Thank you. It was perfect, week before I made a loaf for my daughter home on Spring break, and let it proof too long. This one more than made up for it.
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Nice.
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Stone Fly Swap FULL! PM for address, it’s a go!
niveker replied to Trouttramp's topic in Fly Swaps & Contests
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I think it looks great. I would put a fuller tail on it, but that's personal preference. Slap a drop or two of cement on the head and you'll be good to go.
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Real nice Heffernutter - I haven't seen one of those tied in a real long time. Thats a cool pattern, great name too!
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A few Zug Bugs for the season opener swap.
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Those are cool, nice SBS
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15th Annual Opening Day Swap Swap is Full
niveker replied to fishingbobnelson's topic in Fly Swaps & Contests
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Great work. For wading staffs I've like the cheap, collapsible, metal hiking sticks I buy off the 'bay, I usually get two for under $20 and always give one way before I need it. I used to collect walking sticks as I hiked or camped in the woods. Slender, light, and straight, or maybe they had a neat curve or a cool divot for the handle, or I liked the wood they came from. I maybe had five or six I kept over the years. One was a skinned, grainy oak with a perfect crotch set at the grip. Another was a sassafras that still had that birch beer aroma under the right knock about conditions. I threw them all out, but one, a few years ago. I've had it for 30 years now, its the rib from a saguaro cactus I picked up while hiking, believe it or not, in Saguaro National Park outside Tucson, Arizona. The only thing I have ever done to it was to put a half hitch handle wrap on it a while back, which is now getting loose. Its about 5' long, and the straightest, longest, lightest wooden hiking stick I've ever held. And I feel energized while walking through the woods with it. Really. If I didn't know any better, I'd think it was some kind of alien material. I mean, hey, Tucson is not that far from Roswell.
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I see, same thing here, especially troublesome the smaller the fly, though on smaller flies I'm not entirely convinced that the presence of the wings makes much of a difference to the fish, but to me it doesn't look right without them. Seems like a good solution. As I said, I've used UV glue or super glue on nymphs for tails and such when I couldn't get the thread or my fingers to do what I wanted.
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https://www.jsflyfishing.com/products/tungsten-thread I have never used it, so I cannot vouch. Tungsten bead or thread, I would like to see what you come up with.
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Sux. Amazing that this goes unnoticed for so long, but I forget to include a 1099 of $600.01 on my taxes and 8 days later I got an IRS agent knocking on my door with a proctoscope.
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Welcome to the forum Tom, from just up the road in central MA.
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I could not figure out what was going on, bad elk hair never crossed my mind. So obvious now that @flyflinger pointed it out.