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  • Birthday 05/08/1989

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  1. i've often wondered about not using a strike indicator and if you would be able to feel a strike. honestly i've not actually nymphed before but i'm done with not catching fish. hahaha. i like the idea of using a big attracter fly as a strike indicator too. its just hard for me to pick an attracter to use here in michigan. i guess a hopper might work but i like to use mostly natural materials and tying hoppers with sponge and foam dont appeal to me for some reason. I'm not aware of any good larger attracter style flys that would work in michigan. we have a big hex hatch and those things are HUGE but other than that i dont know of anything big enough to not be pulled under by a dropper. i guess you could fish a smaller dry with gink and let it get pulled just under the surface of the water like an emerger.
  2. mike. i saw an article where the guy sandwiched pink in between olive color so that from the bottom it would appear olive, like moss floating, but it had a pink middle so it was more visable. I just cant be convinced that a trout doesnt notice something out of place when a big pink thing comes floating by. plus equally important as sight is, there is the advantage of being able to control the depth of your nymph rig.
  3. Wondering if any of you tie your own strike indicators. I've read some articles lately about tying natural colored strike indicators for the purpose of not spooking fish with bright colored plastic balls. I want to tye some olive indicators but i'm wondering what kind of yarn or other material will float the best?
  4. Grenades are hard to buy ... especially these days. Also, they kill everything within the shock distance. Go to any electrical supply house and buy a hand crank A/C generator, two copper rods about 6 feet long, some styrofoam, and a set of jumper cables. Secure the styrofoam to the copper tube to float them ... you do not want them touching bottom. Attach the jumper cables to the copper rods and the generator and start cranking. Oh, if you're in an aluminum boat, don't do this with bare or wet feet. Net the fish that float to the surface. If you want to get fish from a larger area, use a gas-powered, portable generator. If you get caught following these directions, I am writing this under duress ... a giant otter is standing behind me with a flipper to my throat. AWESOME! why bait fish when you can electro-shock!? hahahahahahaha
  5. was he the one with the flyship in Toledo?
  6. i'm no expert but i know the difference between nicking my thread on a hook and their being burrs inside the metal tube and the thread coming out weak. i've had to run fine sandpaper inside 2 times already to fix that issue. the vise has screws that keep falling out when you try to clamp down the hook. also the materials that cabelas sent, EVEN if i had the right size hooks, are badly dyed and they widen out so fast that you can only get MAYBE three wraps before the hackle is a few sizes too big. really only good for wooly buggers. but i tied probably... oh... 6 wolly buggers on the olive hackle i got and i have no more usable hackle in any size 6 and under. the only materials i really liked out of the kit were the peacock herl and marabou. OH and the "nice box" they have the kit in... falls apart. mine is almost complete garbage and i don't even ever use it.
  7. i'm no expert but i know the difference between nicking my thread on a hook and their being burrs inside the metal tube and the thread coming out weak. i've had to run fine sandpaper inside 2 times already to fix that issue. the vise has screws that keep falling out when you try to clamp down the hook. also the materials that cabelas sent, EVEN if i had the right size hooks, are badly dyed and they widen out so fast that you can only get MAYBE three wraps before the hackle is a few sizes too big. really only good for wooly buggers. but i tied probably... oh... 6 wolly buggers on the olive hackle i got and i have no more usable hackle in any size 6 and under. the only materials i really liked out of the kit were the peacock herl and marabou.
  8. who put out the kit? what were your expectations regarding that kit? please explain which materials where uselees where the materials useless because you didnt know what they were or how to use them? i understand about the the vise and maybe some tools, but please help others understand why kits are so bad My kit was from cabelas. all of the hackle that i got in the kit were WAY too big. the chenille was also too big to tye anything in the hook size range i got in the kit. the kit came with crappy hooks too (lazer sharp). the general tools like the bodkin and hackle pliers were good but i had a FIT with the bobbin getting burrs and breaking string. also it came with the worst ever assortment of threads all too big. basically they send you the hooks to tye the smaller nymphs and dries, but no materials to make anything that small. it all boils down to the fact that fly tying is extremely delicate and precise. if you have to spend your time messing around with your equipment, it will get old FAST and your flies will not look very good. the first day i got to really enjoy tying was a month after i got my kit when i placed a big order to jstockard and just got the stuff that i needed and would actually tye flys that float and look right. if you are resourceful, its pretty easy to come up with cheap if not free materials. i got a lot of free turkey feathers, deer hair, peacock feathers, mallard, and pheasant all by just asking people i knew who hunt. i really wish i would have gotten a nice vise to start and materials to tye say... 5 patterns and then just tyed them until they came out perfect, then pick 5 more and go to town. its the best way i've found to keep tying new things and to make sure you aren't just tying 1 or 2 and moving on to the next fly.
  9. i started with a kit and i found 90 percent of the materials useless and the vice is pretty much worthless after only owning it for 5 months. i'd just spend the money now. i deal with my vise because i want to spend my money on more materials to tye new patterns and not have to spend a big chunk of my budget on a vise. just start with a decent vise. i hear the peak rotary is nice! and j.stockard sells them for 150 new
  10. Got mine yesterday and it seems very handy and quite more durable than i expected. i was shorted a petri dish so i'll have to call and straighten that one out
  11. AWESOME! i'll be trying for smalllies next weekend here downstate.
  12. NAILED IT! watched some videos. going to practice tonight. THANK YOU!
  13. piker- thank you! i'll be sure to keep posting pics as I come along! jd- those look sweet. I had never fished with a wooley bugger before this past weekend. i'd tied a few olive ones with ice dub instead of chenille and when I got to the river and no fish were rising, I took advice from a guy who had hooked and lost one fish on an olive bugger. so I threw it on and caught my only 4 fish of the weekend!
  14. i'll be getting one next week for my birthday... (i think) haha. i'll let you know how i like it!
  15. I've only been tying for 4 1/2 months (or since christmas) so they aren't perfect but here's my first "flies from the vice" submission.
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