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Nice!

Thanks Dean. Indeed, I'm glad my son was so into it or I would have shrugged it off. Was a great time all around.

Sweet!

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I like it. 👍

I hear that - last time I was fishing was October - weather and work have been conspiring against me!

👍 It's a decent pattern for me, fished wet, though I don't' fish it very often. I remember once catching the same little rainbow twice with it within a 10 minute period on a small stream.

Yes, I was mistaken, thanks for posting the recipe. I should have checked before making my comment. It reminded me of an old North Woods fly from Maine, the Slim Jim, very similar. My memory of the recipe had no tail and a dubbed body. I could not have been further off, LOL.

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They look good, but me thinks a synthetic or even a natural dubbing would be a better choice for the body material to keep it from sinking. You maybe could even leave off the tail with the wings tied in like that, as it might be superfluous, I'd have to see it on the water.

Nice and sparse.

That's a great idea, I may have to look into it.

If it weren't for my sons, I would have stayed home and worked,. Glad I didn't. My #2 son recently moved back to New England from Delaware, and he was gung-ho on seeing totality, so we did similar to DF. He lives in Kittery ME. I drove up there Sunday afternoon and spent the rest of the day walking around Portsmouth, NH, right across the Piscataqua River, enjoying some of the best food, drink, and company I've had in a long time - a great, beautiful, little city. The plan was head out Monday morn for Stratford NH and watch the eclipse from the Percy Peaks in the White Mountains, but the spirit of Robert Burns was with us that day. We delayed our departure for nearly an hour and a half waiting for the #1 son to join us - he said he would meet us Monday morning, meaning at the trail head, we assumed he meant in Kittery. Texting him he just kept saying traffic was heavier than normal, until we asked where he was. Then the light came on. Portsmouth Naval Yard at the end of my son's street. We tried hard to stay on secondary and back roads, if I'm going to sit in traffic I'd rather it be on a country road than on a highway. And our experience was similar to Poopdeck's. Drivers were polite and courteous, no dorkhead moves like trying to jump a spot or two ahead or riding in the breakdown lane. People stopping to allow a waiting car to enter from a side road, no sheetstains blowing their horns behind you. It was pleasant. Mt Washington. We made it to the gravel road leading to the trail head with 1 1/2 hours to spare. Unfortunately, the trail head road was gated off about a mile and a half before the actual trailhead. There's no way this old man was going to jog that plus the nearly 3 mile climb to the peak - so we headed back 1/4 mile to a cemetery we had just passed to wait for the big event. Surprisingly, we and the inhabitants were the only souls there. It was awesome. As it neared totality, the wind began to pick up, the light was shimmering across the ground, the temp dropped about 10 degrees, the small solar lights marking some gravestones came lit up, the orange twilight/daylight glow all around the horizon as opposed to just in the east or west. So cool. Totality, with Venus at 5 o'clock. We had left Kittery around 10, got back to my son's place @ 7. So 8 hours of driving time, more or less. Didn't mind it one bit. I haven't spent that much time talking with #2 son since well before he took off for college 8 years ago. Even more meaningful as it looks like he's going to be deployed to Kuwait for a year this June. Best day I've had in years, the eclipse was the cream on top.

Looks good. Wraps are nice and evenly spaced Tail might be a bit long, but it'll fish. Or you can pinch off a bit of the tail to shorten it. Nice choice on the vise. 👍

Welcome. What patterns did you tie?