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That's the way I like to see them tied. Calf tail or Cock Hackle as the yellow underwing?

Using a lot of wax on flies stored in high heat-like the American desert west can be troublesome. The wax can leech out in the fly box. Heck-my fly tying room gets hot enough in the summer (high 80's F-even with small ac unit struggling) that when I tye the bobbin holder tubes get clogged with wax from just regular use using Uni Threads with wax. Car trunks get to over 150F in the summer here...so just saying.. watch the wax. I saw a video where Mikael Frodin recommended not using wax when building his flies either for the same reason. Not trying to start a wax war thread. That video was a good one. Especially since I was curious about Davie's method for his hand-mounted wax.. Thanks

these look very cool!

Lucian, I like it and looks like a colorful winner of a pattern. Just a small thing-You may want to add the silver ribbing to your pattern recipe to be complete on this one. A nymph pattern worth tying! Thanks. Rich

I too am in constant awe of this fly tying exhibition. Buy more materials & tye more flies. Never hurts!

Wow-Sticky Subject. Glad no one is permanently damaged. Have to share the very worst fly tying super glue night mare ever. It was told to me by a famous west coast tyer Jay M. He tyes commercially and I mean he fills orders of dozens of dozens of flies at a time. He fell asleep in his tying chair. When he awoke, and very groggy, he reached for the Visine and yep you guessed it-he put super glue in his eye instead. A late night trip to the emergency room was in order to free his eye lid which had bonded shut.I guess the eye lashes want to be bonded when you apply super glue! Of coarse he lost most of his eyelashes that night and they didn't have to do much, if any cutting. No permanent damage to his eye and an amazing recovery from a sleepy mistake. Don't keep medicines and tying fluids on the same table I guess. Here is my CA tip for applying very small amounts to flies: I take a short length of stiff fine wire (0.008 gauge guitar string)) and stick it into the end of a small chunk of dense fly tying foam. That is the applicator. Then I have a small wooden bowl-maybe 5 inches in diameter. In The center bottom of the bowl I have some adhesive backed non-stick tape. I place a few drops of loktite precision grade CA onto the tape in a small puddle. I then use the wire to carry a micro drop of CA to heads and places on flies where you only want a very small amount. The wire will eventually get crusted. Use a SE razor blade to scrape off the dried CA and you have a clean wire applicator again. Replace the tape when it gets funky. It wipes clean with a tissue easily if you remember. Sounds complicated-but I use this system every day and it keeps everything under control.

Another wonderful SBS Scott. Just a tight Looking Caddis. Have to ask: Who is Brannon?

Very Impressive flies! Nice assembly line too.

Learning to tie the Danish Sea Trout Pattern "Brenda". Four distinct hackle placements rather than palmered hackle style. Ordered the correct Rainbow dubbing and meantime using AZ Semi-Seal blends. The smaller one is well chewed by three nice fish the first time I threw it in a local pond. A Bass, Brown and Bow took it in size #10.

This looks like fun-posting flies each month. So here goes with a few I have been trying of late:

Good work there. I like this one a lot. Good tutorial and choice of materials too.

Thanks Very Much Scott. Bingo-you nailed it. I would have never guessed the origin and use as a steelhead pattern. Though I live in the Mountain West-I have had the occasion to fish the Salmon River in the Pulaski, NY! My river walker didn't have that fly in his box-for sure. I'm going to try these on Trout locally. Again-thanks for nailing this for me. Rich

I just happened across a picture of this simple, elegant fly pattern and it is labeled as an Alder-Fly-Nymph. When I search on that pattern, I get the classic Alder Fly patterns and not this one. Can someone please help me properly ID this pattern? Also if anyone can post info/history on it that would be great too. Are those feathers Lemon Wood Duck? It really has my curiosity up! Thanks

Now that is a good looking fly!

Whip & Lash Bash!