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steelprince

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  1. So, I was at my bench today and poured a hook out of a storage container. When I looed in my hane there was a little bug in it. Kinda catepillar-ish. I don't know if it's a problem and I been researching looking for pics of bugs, but no luck. Anybody know the different types of bugs tiers have problems with? I'm concerned but not too concerned cause the bug couldhave been in my hook drawer, but I don't really know where it came form. I do know this: I've gotta go through my materials and re-up my mothballs. So twop questions: 1. What are the types of bugs we have problems with? 2. How often do you who use mothballs replenish? thanks
  2. Anybody ever tie this fly from Helvie's "Steelhead Flytying Guide". The pattern's originated by Dec Hogan. mine looks nothing like the one in the pics. I did take some liberties with the dressing. The head is tragopan head feathers, the hackle is golden pheasant followed by a few wisps of dyed guniea, and the body is a mix of hot orange, flo. orange, and burnt orange angors. When I started tying the pattern all teh orange specified seemed to detract from the shellback feathers. Nonetehless I think it's fishable.
  3. Reluctant to post these patterns with the names that I have donned (sp?) on them, because the idea of naming patterns is kinda controversial. Does taking one pattern and modifying it constitute a new pattern? Does changing materials to garner a differnet effect constitute a new pattern? What if changing the materials causes the fly to fish differently? I kinda subscribe to the old saying: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck---but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and barks like a dog then it's a barking duck. I've applied the latter to naming these flies. Plus, modifying the names of the patterns helps to identify what I was using and for tying purposes. Here's the result (from left to right, top to bottom): C3 john, fuzz'd john, and deer john's in black and olive The cc: john is closer to the standard copper john, but with a rusty brown ice dub thorax, rubber legs and a copper bead head. copper head + copper thorax + copper abdomen = C3 john The fuzz'd john has a wire body, with a sparse dubbed loop of black rabbit wrapped over skipping smalls sections so wire shows (segmentation), a turkey wingcase (no epoxy), and deer hair thorax. rabbit + deer = fuzz + deer (d) = fuzz'd john The deer johns feature a deer hair wingcase and ice dub mixed with deer hair (40/60) for the thorax. deer hair wingcase + deer in thorax = deer john. Since deer hair as a wingcase is inherently a poor material choice (IMO) i slapped epoxy on them and the head. At anyrate, sorry for the rant. I have tendencies. Oh, by deer hair I mean bucktail, the wire is not ultra wire but a really heavy painted (i think) craft wire and they are all tied on mustad 7970's (sz. 6). Think, lob into pocket water or deep drifting.
  4. What are good colors to dye spey hackles? I know that black and heron grey are good colors, but what else?
  5. I use a square cardboard box. i glue the flaps down on the inside bottom, remove a pair of flaps from the top, cut a square flap out for inserting and removing materials, cut a circle hole to fit blow dryer nozzle, and tape most of the open edges closed to trap as much air as possible, but allowing for circulation. I cover the flap with a book or what ever is available. -k
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