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BobT

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  • Birthday 02/02/1948

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  1. letumgo, I looked at your tutorial about burning raffia to make mayfly wings and really enjoyed it. I was wondering if you have used these types of wings in actual fishing conditions and if so how do they hold up to casting? Bob
  2. Just a reminder to everyone interested, The MidWest Flyfishing Expo is next weekend, March 10th and 11th. Link is below: Bob http://www.mffc.org/
  3. Ya, me too. I go in spells with them in my hand. Seems unconfortable at first but you kind of get used to it but I always seem to back to picking them up and down. Bob
  4. I also saw the show. I got a kick from the announcer saying that the person was a Fly Maker. Bob
  5. Hey Steeldrifter Just outstanding work and I am jealous. I have wanted to go this route over the years and I am about to start as my son has married and is now out of the house so the basement is mine. By the way, I live in Oak Park about two or three miles away and when you are finished with yours can you PLEASE come do mine, ha ha. Again just wonderful work. Bob T
  6. Nightfish I just picked up the rotating tool caddy from Calelas in Dundee and mine did have the rods included with it. They were included in a plastic bag. All you need in a small piece of dowling because you just insert the thread holes through the dowling and it sits in the compartment. Bob
  7. I agree with Steelie, great show and lots of tyers and also great speakers. Its right before the general trout season in Michigan and really gets you into the swing of things Bob
  8. Mine would be the Elk Hair Caddis. Bob
  9. The strangest thing that I can think of was about 15 years ago and I was driving to northern Michigan to do some fishing and I saw a dead turkey out of the corner of my eye on a two track road. Since I was going about 55 miles per hour it took me a little while to stop the car and get turned around. I turned onto the two track and proceeded to get my knife out to work on my find when another car pulled up behind me and asked me if I was going to take any of the feathers from that bird. He also had spied the turkey and wanted the feathers for fly tying. I told him that was also my objective. He told me that since I was there first, although it was by only by a half minute or so, that the bird was mine. He was so nice about it that we split up the feathers. We could not believe that two people driving past a two track would stop for the same reason just seconds apart. Now that was strange. Bob
  10. I have just tied a couple of crayfish patterns. I was fishing a little stream for trout and while wading I kicked up a couple of crayfish. I usually fish smaller patterns for trout but decided that this week I am going to try fishing for larger browns with the crayfish pattern. Will probably fish it for ten minutes or so until I get tired of casting it out.
  11. Renzetti Traveler and use it always. Bob
  12. I am like Kodiak, I really think that it makes a difference with eyes on streamers. I also paint eyes on all my Thunder Creeks and my bullethead muddlers in which the head is shaped like a Thunder Creek. What I do is to put FlexCement on the head portion of the fly. Let that dry and then paint an eye with with usually a white background and a black pupil but have tried other various combinations. Not only do I thinks it helps in fishing purposes but I think that it looks nicer and thus fish it with more confidence. Bob
  13. I tie eyes on most of my streamer patterns as I think that fish key in on them. Most of the time I paint the eyes on two of my favorites, the bullet head muddler and the Thunder Creek. Bob
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