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1st.YearTyer

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About 1st.YearTyer

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  • Birthday December 9

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    Alberta
  1. Why did you bother typing this?How does this help me?Perchjerker your a moron!!
  2. When tying in a top wing(wood duck/partridge/teal) for say a Salmon Fly how do you keep it from seperating?
  3. I would like to know what the alternatives to using 2 Part Epoxy are?I only tie up a few flies at a time that I would use the epoxy for and mixing up that quick-dry stuff is a real pain and waste.There must be other products fly-tyers use for flies like Poxy-back Nymphs or Salt-Water types?
  4. As I am new to tying but old of site I am looking to buy a Magnifyer Lamp.If you have any suggestions say the size of glass/optic x/and bulb type.Price you paid would be helpful to know as well. Right now I have a "macgyver'd" little L.E.D battery light and a handheld magnifyer that I can clamp on but it gets in the way once in a while.
  5. NEVER say NEVER when it comes to fly tying!!! N E V E R ! ! !
  6. I don't know about using dog fur,but again UTYER your the man with the answer.I ALSO blend what few colors I have along with some clear UV sparkle stuff.I found a great deal on a large assortment of colors but it is all synthetic.Using natural fur appeals to me a lot more but I was just wondering what the real fly-tyers were doing for their nymphs.I'm gonna go out today and pick up a bag of RED and BLACK hareline and that should cover me for any color I wanna come up with.
  7. Do you use synthetic dubbing for nymphs or just natural fur?
  8. .....and I am done responding to you perchjerker,the name says it all!
  9. Thx UTYER for the advice but the Comparadun is a fly I wouldn't fish,so I definitely wouldn't bother spending time tying it.I have about 200 drys in my box so it's not that I need to tie any.It was just something I was trying and encountered a problem with.I'm leaning towards anatomicals in tying drys. It's the nymphs that really attracted me to tying trout flies.In my neck o'the woods the available patterns are VERY limited in the local stores.After reading quite a few books I was amazed at what some guys have come up with.So I have a lot of recipes and a lot of ideas to sustain me for a long life of tying. And forget the foam,I will never use foam when I flyfish. Kirk here's a couple pictures of my 2nd and 3rd nymphs. I see I need a better pair of scissors though!!
  10. Thank-you UTYER,thats an answer I can work with.Completely explained.So then my chinese cock capes I'll only use for wet flies and legs and tails.I have packs of Whiting 100's but was hoping not to use them yet until I got better at proportions.Their not easy to find what with all the girls accenting the hair now-a-days.Don't see much point in spending $80 for one color of a good cape to tie drys with.For that kinda money I could buy all the drys in a store I'd ever need.Little disappointed at the guy in the local fly shop who told be I could tie drys with the chinese cape though.Guess I'll go in and have a hockey talk with him about that.lol
  11. I'm using chinese cock cape,but if its because it's cheap please explain why?
  12. Yes the stem part I'm wrapping thread around is free from hackle but it still turns and the hackle lays flat.I've tried the angle wrap/the pinch wrap/the soft loop/the index finger pressure of the back side to tie in the feather and still all the same outcome.It's really starting to get me frustrated.Someone must know something other than what I can read in books.Please help!
  13. Perchjerker-first you said "only borax" then in your last paragraph you say your "wings on the roof with salt".Why confuse the guy? I have 18 Hawks/Falcons/Owls and songbeards taxidermied in the living room.Never had a problem with the officials with the birds on the way to the office.
  14. How do you make sure the hackle stem bends properly when winding on for a dry fly?Mine keep turning and laying flat with the barbs all over the place.
  15. Canadians are much better off when it comes to endangered/rare/protected species.If you find a dead one you want ya take it with you to the nearest Fish & Game office,get a permit and it's yours. I like how people contradict themselves when spewing advice,must be talking just for the sake of talking.Thats a jerkpercher for ya!
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