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  1. T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CADDIS BY RICHARD FRANK Twas the night before Christmas when down by the stream The full moon looked out on a chill winter scene. A lone trout was sipping a midge in his brook, Untroubled by worries of fishers with hooks. Then from above a small sleigh did appear Pulled by a brace of eight tiny reindeer. It swerved of a sudden and down it did glide, Settling its runners along the streamside. The fat, jolly driver dove into his sled And emerged with his three weight held high over head. "Thank you my elves for this wand smooth as silk. This break will be better than cookies and milk." So saying, he jumped from his sleigh with a chuckle, Hiked up his boots and cinched up his belt buckle. Santa meant business that cold winter's eve. A fish he would catch - that you'd better believe. Looking upstream and down, he spotted that trout, Then he open his flybox and took something out - "Size 32 midges are only for faddists I'll go with my favorite tan reindeer caddis." So he cast out his line with a magical ease And his fly floated down just as light as you please. And it drifted drag free down the trout's feeding lane, But the fish merely wiggled a fin of disdain. "Oh Adams, oh Cahill, oh Sulphur, oh Pupa, Oh Hopper, oh Coachman, oh Olive Matuka! I've seen every fly in the book and the box. I'm old and I'm wary and sly as a fox. To catch me you'll need an unusual gift, For a present this common no fin will I lift." Old Nick scratched his head for his time it grew short The reindeer behind him did shuffle and snort. He looked once again in his box for a fly When a pattern compelling attracted his eye. "The Rudolph!" he muttered and grinned ear to ear "Far better to give than receive, so I hear." So he cast once again and his magic was true, And the trout it looked up and knew not what to do. "This fly has a body of bells don't you know, And if that's not enough there's a shining red nose! I know it's fraud and I know it's a fake, But I can't help myself. It's I gift I must take!" So he rose in swirl and captured that thing, Flew off down the stream. Santa's reel it did sing. "Ho!" shouted Santa, "You're making my day. If the heavens were water, you'd be pulling my sleigh." So, Santa prevailed and released his great rival First taking great care to ensure its survival. He then mounted his sled and he flew out of sight Shouting, "Merry Caddis to trout and to all a good night
  2. Dam skunk sounds like your having a bad week,first the easter bunny incident( )with your goods being destroyed and now the goods are coming back after you.I think you need to go fishing ( ) whats that saying its not the size of the chicken its how big was the......c#@& tight lines.....
  3. fishaholic

    Road kill

    couldnt you just plea ignorance and say these things tried attacking your vehicle and that it was all done in self defense... ( )
  4. Well as a fellow western new yorker of the southern tier area,it is always a good feeling when the first of april rolls around but yes unfortunatly the weather is always a large factor.I guess this year is going to be no exception to the rules as they are calling for heavy thunderstorm in this area today.Still all in all I myself am glad to see it come,the only major problem I always have is do I pull out the 3wt and go for natives and stockies or take the (new) 7wt out for the elusive steelhead(decision,decisions).Oh well we will just have to play this one out.Good luck to all that venture out..........and tight lines
  5. there is a game out there called trophy river.I own it and have played it for some time.Its not to bad, the fishing options are really kewl plus believe it or not it has a really nice fly selection to choose from.I believe it is still available to buy.I would check on ebay for it or possibly on amazon.com.I would give it about a 6 or 7 rating.you can either drift boat fish it or walk the banks casting to the fish.Hope this is a little helpful for ya. tight lines and spring has come to ny.........jerry out
  6. Hell man I still have to go out and shoot me a dam deer just to tye up all these dam flies and now you want them WHEN...........I'm with skunk on this one!!!!!! ( )
  7. OK I thought it over and have finally decided what to do....so I will be doing the famous deer hair mouse.........ole mr.bucketmouth just loves them!!!!!! tight lines and away we go.........Jerry!!!
  8. Well I've been playing around lately with this craft foam and have been having a ball tying these up.I hope they work as well as they look,I guess we will find out this summer.The frog pattern is the one that pujic has listed on the site,its alot of fun to make and should be interesting to fish.The dragonfly is just something I threw together from looking at some of the other styles and patterns I had seen throughout this site.Hope you like um.... tight lines and yahoo spring is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. Well it would be my first swap,and I feel im up to the challenge so with a little guidance I would be more than willing to say "im in".......fly tbd
  10. I am currently holding the magazine in my lap at my desk at work and I did read the article.That defininetly sounds like alot of fun.I take the family every year to canada for a week and one of the things we do up there is snorkel around the lake side looking for what ever we can find.great article travis......... Thank God for Smallies
  11. Thank You!!!!! Its mostly due to you guys and this site that these were created and I have to say it was fun doing them,hopefully I can tidy them up a little bit.I'm strongly contimplating the realistic realm next.So I guess we'll have to see how that turns out,got to first acquire some new supplies for that then we can get underway.I personally think it is quite cool that we have paul whillock on board with us giving us some great insite on that aspect of fly tying. So lets keep things going the way they are and this will definitely be the hottest site around in my opinion. there is no living without fly fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! p.s. the avatar that I finally got to work is my oldest son jake,and that kid loves to fish!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. I bet you are alot of fun around a campfire.........great story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!makes me want to leave work and go fishing......that ending sounded like the perfect place for a fishaholic to be
  13. Great looking fly!!!especially like how you did the tale......Keep up the good work
  14. Im gonna have to go along with the dog owners on this one.I have a 10 month old black lab pup,and one night I had brought home some fresh pheasant feathers that a guy at work had shot.Well needless to say I had not yet introduced her to any kind of bird scent yet,but wholey s&it she got wind of those feathers and it took everything I had to get her under control and not end up destroying the house.Needless to say now, those feathers only come out when I am ready to use them,and she sometimes still has to go in here crate.
  15. Thank you, believe it or not the body is formed from the thin craft foam available at wal-mart and for the wings all I had available at the time that I could use was an empty bag that some rabbit zonker strips came in.So I cut out two wing patterns and glued them together ran my scissors tip across them.Then I hit with a permanent marker quick and wiped off with paper towel.The body technique is the one that graham posted on his mayfly challenge post.I hope this helps you out,and thanks for looking!!
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