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  1. No one has mentioned the McMurray ant by Ed Sutryn. I have found that this pattern will take trout when they are refusing other ant patterns. The original uses a balsa wood body segments glued onto mono and then painted. https://www.flydreamers.com/en/fly-tying/mc-murray-ant-vl233 Here are the instructions per Jack Tucker of Flyfish@ which was published on the Virtual Flybox. There are two more modern adaptations that work equally well. The first uses foam cylinders cut to size for the body segments and then threaded on mono alternating the short and long body segments. Then glue the body segments into place. Cut the mono later to form the individual bodies. They are really fussy to make and I have my own easier version. All that is needed are foam cylinders of the correct diameter. I make my own using a cork borer, but you can buy foam ant bodies. A cork borer is a set of nested hollow tubes that are used to bore holes in cork or rubber stoppers that are used in chemistry labs for flasks. You can get a used set on the auction site. https://www.ebay.com/itm/264458280950?_ I make my bodies and the string them on a piece of mono and glue them into place. After the glue has dried, cut off the ant bodies and tie the fly. You can make flying ant patterns by tying in a bit of crystal flash as the wings. If you want to coat the foam, they can be painted with liquid latex (Rub-R-Mold) which can be bought at hobby stores. If you are going to paint the foam, you can cut rectangular strips of foam from a foam sheet and then use the rectangular pieces cut to size. The latex paint will smooth over the edges. If you can't decide when to use a red ant or a black ant, make up some McMurray ants with a red thorax and a black body. They work. Here is a black ant I tied using one of my home made cork borer bodies. The second adaptation uses dimensional fabric paint. The paint is applied to thread to form the body segments. Since it is dimensional paint it will form a smooth shiny body on the thread. There is no need to paint since the bodies are paint. Different colors can be used from black to brown to cinnamon red. After the paint dries, cut off the individual bodies with the thread connectors and tie the flies. Either of these two methods make wonderful ants and they are much easier than the original McMurray balsa wood bodies. The dimensional paint can even form the realistic natural tapering of the ant body. I also make Harrison Steeve’s Attract Ants and Transpar Ants http://www.oocities.org/gold_trout/articles/TransparANT.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK6P02Dc5pc This is my ant box.
  2. 1. The hook gap is pretty narrow/ So if you are getting hits but no hookups, use a 2X short hook. It will have a wider hook gap for teh shank length. 2. The hackle is too long. Trim the hackle to proper size on some of the flies and see if there is a difference in the number hits you get. 3. Fish them close to the banks and under overhanging grass and trees. Fish them after right after a thunderstorm. They get washed into the stream
  3. His robot. https://youtu.be/5_jp9CwJhcA?si=azEfcscHB7Oz-rAx&t=275
  4. Second reason for auto shut off is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming.
  5. I thought there was a work around for posting videos but I can't find it. There used to be a method as this old thread shows https://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?/topic/80414-embedding-videos/&tab=comments#comment-616671
  6. There is no need to use wax or waxed thread. The best fly tyer I have ever met is Royce Damm. He won the 1994 Buzz Busek award from the FFI; https://www.flyfishersinternational.org/Portals/0/FlyTyingGroup/FTGDocuments/Buszek/1994_RoyceDam.pdf I wrote about his method of dubbing here: https://www.theflyfishingforum.com/forums/index.php?threads/sticky-wax-question.917045/#post-1672183
  7. It might have a special name but I think it is a bead head wooly bugger variant. Maybe someone will recognize it and give you a specific name.
  8. Four old retired guys are walking down a street in Naples, Florida. They turned a corner and see a sign that says, Old Timers Bar - all drinks 10 cents.' They look at each other, and then go in, thinking this is too good to be true. The old bartender says in a voice that carries across the room, 'Come on in and let me pour one for you! What'll it be, Gentlemen?' There seemed to be a fully-stocked bar, so each of the men asked for a martini. In short order, the bartender serves up four iced martinis... Shaken, not stirred, and says, 'That'll be 10 cents each, please' The four men stare at the bartender for a moment. Then look at each other... They can't believe their good luck. They pay the 40 cents, finish their martinis, and order another round. Again, four excellent martinis are produced with the bartender again saying, 'That's 40 cents, please.' They pay the 40 cents, but their curiosity is more than they can stand. They have each had two martinis and so far they've spent less than a dollar. Finally one of the men says, 'How can you afford to serve martinis as good as these for a dime a piece?' 'I'm a retired tailor from Boston,' the bartender said, and I always wanted to own a bar. Last year I hit the Lottery for $25 million and decided to open this place. Every drink costs a dime - wine, liquor, beer, it's all the same.' Wow!!!! That's quite a story,' says one of the men. The four of them sipped at their martinis and couldn't help but notice seven other people at the end of the bar who didn't have drinks in front of them, and hadn't ordered anything the whole time they were there. One man gestures at the seven at the end of the bar without drinks and asks the bartender, 'What's with them?' The bartender says, 'Oh, they're all old retired farts from Pennsylvania. They're waiting for happy hour when drinks are half price.'
  9. Here ya go Common_Sense_Certificate.pdf
  10. You can look up charity ratings on Charity Navigator. https://www.charitynavigator.org/about-us/ For example "Easter Seals" ranking depends on what Easter Seals Organization https://www.charitynavigator.org/search?q=Easter+Seals Here is the detail breakdown on Goodwill-Easter Seals of Minnesota, a highly rated charity https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/410706171
  11. The hook points are acid sharpened like the major brands. You may find an occasional hook with an eye that is not completely closed but most of the time all the hooks are fine. I used to tie on Tiemco hooks. I do fly tying at demonstration events for TU and FFF and give away my flies. That got expensive so I started buying the Fly Shack hooks to tie at these events and then I finally gave up buying the expensive hooks and now tie all my personal flies on these hooks unless there is a specific hook shape that Fly Shack does not make. I think you should make your own evaluation by buying a few to try. They are so popular that sometime they are backordered.
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