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niveker

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Welcome to the forum Tom, from just up the road in central MA.
  6. I could not figure out what was going on, bad elk hair never crossed my mind. So obvious now that @flyflinger pointed it out.
  7. Nice, I really like the color of that dubbing.
  8. If what you're looking to do is tie the smallest bugger possible, why not skip the bead and use tungsten thread instead. Or is the beadhead part and parcel of your quest?
  9. Not being a smart a55, just wondering. Why use UV resin instead of using thread to split them? What problem are you trying to solve? Pretty little fly, BTW. Edit - and I should add, I have used tiny amounts of UV resin to secure small bits in place when my frustration level gets up there. Me and biot tails do NOT get along, no matter how patient and caring I try to be.
  10. πŸ‘Nice work. I would have been breaking shit.
  11. Thanks Gadabout, and appreciate your feedback on the Bill's BB
  12. Next challenge: the original Sofa Pillow
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