dont know what i am doing
That is all real good advice thanks everyone. I live in the middle of Nebraska no trout streams and no fly shops. There is a Cabelas close but I know more about the stuff than the people working there |
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Vise Advice
I agree with Gene L. After going through the old Thompson with the rotary wheel, the new Thompson (which still works), I bought an inexpensive rotary vise by Terra (made in India). It has the wood-cl |
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ice flies
Hers a coulpe i use in central Nebraska
I call this one "Ice Maggot"
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and this one is "Wire Body Ice Fly"
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Hi from Nebraska
Hi from Nebraska,
I'm new to fly fishing and tying. I've only been fly fishing since June, and tying for only a month or so. I found this site and started looking at all the great patterns a |
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Ice Fly Help
I live in Nebraska and I use small weighted ants black and red size 12 & 14 the most. also the charlie fly is a good one. Just about any weighted fly I use will be yellow, red, chartreuse or blac |
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hackles
So I was shopping for some hackles today and every website I buy from is out. So I went to good ol ebay my faithful stand by. I found 30 listings for fly tying hackles and they were old crappy feather |
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do you tie...
I tie alot flies out of magazines basically to learn new techniques that might help me develop or enhance some of my own patterns. I live in the middle of Nebraska so not a whole lot of trout streams |
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Clear Cure Goo Flies
QUOTE (Clear Cure @ Mar 10 2011, 02:57 PM) QUOTE (trez @ Mar 10 2011, 02:02 PM) Great looking flies!!I clicked on the link to your web site but there is a typo you might want |
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Hello from Nebraska
Hey where in Nebraska are you? I am in Omaha over in millard about 156th and Dodge. Drop me a PM if your close to Omaha would be nice to know more fly tyers in the area. I go to the cornhusker fly t |
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My fun with foam
Bryan - very cool. Only issue I have with Nebraska is it gets COLD!!! My brother went to school there and I visited once...it was 9 degrees with a 15-20 mph wind walking to his grad cermon |
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Tying class tonight
That is awesome. I don't have a lot of people around here in Nebraska to tie with but there is a club that meets at cabellas every week on Thursdays but I don't make it every week. I need to |
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Golden Demon
you and me both Vegas. Of course I need to get som JC first at least some imitation. I eventually want to learn to do some classic salmon fly's for presentation (since I can't fish for salmo |
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Local Wanderings
You making me miss the 20 acres we lived on in California before moving to Nebraska land of the small hills but no mountains. Also no more land for me bought a house in a development. I really miss |
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Mikes Shrimps
Great SBS I have not ever tied a shrimp. I don't know how it would fish here in Nebraska but you never know. |
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Carp?
Hey I want to know too. I know there is a lot of Carp here in Nebraska |
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FTF Fly Challenge: Wooly Buggers
Here is my "stealth bugger" bass love it in the central Nebraska area.
SIZE 6 STRMER HOOK
CONE HEAD
BLACK MARABOU TAIL
PURPLE FLASH TAIL
BLACK UV ICE DUB BODY
BLACK/PURPLE HACKLE FEATHER
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I Now Know
QUOTE (JSzymczyk @ Oct 6 2010, 07:02 PM) QUOTE (Possumpoint @ Oct 5 2010, 05:59 AM) JohnP;Haven't left yet. PU stopped running Friday in the driveway and wouldn't restart. It |
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Nor-Vise later or DanVise now????
QUOTE (utyer @ Sep 9 2010, 12:05 PM) I have had a Nor-vise, for about 20 years, and I wouldn't part with it. That said, I also tied for 30 years without one. I started on my dad's o |
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Software Problem SOLVED!
Why don't we colloborate and write our own database in Access that will do everything you guys want. I could write in-fact I would enjoy it. I am a Data Analyst now for Blue Cross Blue Shield of |
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Appalachian Waters Swap
QUOTE (BigDaddyHub @ Aug 24 2010, 08:37 PM) QUOTE (DHise @ Aug 24 2010, 07:44 PM) go Michigan StateAs long as they're playing Ohio State! I like for the Badgers to take it |
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Hellgrammite Questions
Once you are familiar with the hellgrammite, you will probably agree that they are appropriately named as "the-bug-from-hell". However, Smallmouth Bass love these ferocious appearing bugs an |
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Looking for some American knowledge
40 year question? In all practicality, not that big of a deal. Other than the few exceptions mentioned to define between state and city (Washington, New York), none of the others are refered to as & |
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EP Baitfish?
i havent lookd to closly at different varients but i would like to get a shad and a bluegill and mabey even a bass colored one that i would use in lakes in nebraska mostly |
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new guy
I'm from Nebraska, and thought I'd put up a couple of pics of some of my flies I've tied, right away!Some still have line on them and are missing feathers and stuff, and are a bit chew |
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portable boats
i am sorry ,i dont know where to put this .so i will just ask the question..i travel alot during the summer mostly south dakota ,nebraska,i have been eyeing two boat..1 is the sea eagle pontoon fishin |
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Mouse'n in clol.
Guys, settle down. It absolutely IS the best one on the face of the earth. I know because I've been EVERYWHERE and seen EVERY mouse fly ever tied. And this one is the BEST one on the face of |
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Sno-Fly Modern Midges Celebration Swap !!!!
I just received a package of very nicely tied #20 Bowtie Buzzers from Mark Olsen (Omaha, Nebraska) !!!!December 8th is descending on all of us very quickly. Waiting for 5 more pac |
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How Did You Learn To Tie?
self taught. being Im a truck driver I wanted something to do when I was sitting for the weekends with nothing to do on the road. so I picked up a vise and some tools at a cabelas in Nebraska about 9 |
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RBF: Hustle Great Fishing
We stocked our lakes three weeks ago and it has been wild. Put 9000 lbs of trout from Chalk Mound Trout Ranch in Nebraska in the four lakes. In the last three weeks, fishing mostly a few minutes at a |
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Rare animal sightings in NJ
-I've seen beaver, otter and mink and barred owl chicks on my home river in Illinois.-Saw a bobcat when fishing for smallies in Kentucky-I've seen elk, mule deer, mink, pheasants, antelope, a |
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Boat Opinions
This has been a great thread to read. I have been wondering what kind of boat to get for the lakes here in Nebraska as well. Thanks for all the great opinions! |
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TFF:Mutant Rainbow Trout
I just found this on the net. My first reaction was, WTF? You Nebraska boys need to quit dumping that nuclear waste into the waters! Mutant Trout
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Kyla's Kaleidoscope
Hey guysI have been absent for awhile but just to show you I am not sitting around idly passing the time, here is a fly I did for my daughter in Nebraska. I failed to tell you it is tied on a Ronn Lu |
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Where do y'all find your silk
I've noticed several of you do use silk for your wet flies. I live in Nebraska and while I haven't tried very hard to find a local source I'm curious. Where do the folks here like to buy |
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It's A Blizzard
Got hit with a blizzard this morning. We knew it was coming. Expecting up to two feet of snow. Everything is practically closed. I 80, I 25, I-70 east of Denver the last I heard was closed to the |
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Parachute Dry Fly Swap
Glad they got there ok. The crawdad is a copycat of Duckydoty's woven pattern on steroids with a few minor changes. Hope you get to feed it to a very large western trout. I'm hoping Tony |
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FYI llamma or alpaca hair
good luck DaUP. Maybe a diversion of some sort will help.thanks for the offer nebraska, but i can get it pretty easily also. but if your freind knows where we can catch more of those im in. |
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Bird Photography
Kargen, be careful when the wind stops blowing. I was in Nebraska one time when that happened and everybody in the state fell down. Seriously, nice dove pics. That's a hard bird to catch in the ai |
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furniture any kind
Here is some page of a furniture any kind.. thanksbroyhill furniturenebraska furniture martjordans furnitureethan allen furniturelevitz furniturewickes furniturebobs discount furniturebroyhill furnitu |
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Introduction
Hi. I've been pouring through the site for the past month, looking at flies, trying to tie them and getting some great ideas. I am a newly reformed baitfisherman and have become uncontrollably d |
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new pattern for barnyard fly
No No Trout... see this fly was tied with materials that came from a farm in Nebraska which has it's back 40 loaded with pheasants and quail and also has a fishing pond with mallard ducks in it |
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Eminent domain
QUOTE "Eminent domain was a very bitter pill to swallow for everybody, including us," said Don Denny, a Wyandotte County spokesman. "But it was a necessity to get this project moving f |
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Cabela's IPO
I couldn't agree more with the end of 'customer service and satisfaction' as they offered it these many years.For what it's worth:(Reuters)Number of shares in Cabela's IPO reduced |
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Why Do You Fly Fish?
LOL. Trust me, there are times where I have been tempted. With the gun I'd get ownership of the 30 square miles of Nebraska my family homesteaded in the 1800's. But it's in very rural |
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Hi From Washington
LOL Mike. Yup, have relatives in Richland and Walla Walla. I'm over on the rainy side of the state. I like it here. Most of my relatives who live over there are the ones who long to be back |
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Record brown trout
Damned, that thing is a pig. SHeesh. I've heard of the sea run browns down in south america that get in the 30-40+ pound range. But man, that thing looked like a trout simply gorging itself on |
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Any Members From Nebraska?
Sounds like someone is going to Cabela's. I don't know the area that well to give you exact names/locations, but have spent alot of time back there. Yes, the North Platte and South Platte |
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Joke of the day
Four men were driving across the country. Each one was from a different state: Idaho, Nebraska, Florida and Michigan. Shortly after the trip began, the man from Idaho started pulling potatoes from hi |
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