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  1. redietz
    Louis was simply the best. If you ever need to define the term "virtuosity" you need do no more than play the opening bars of West End Blues.
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    I learned from Helen Shaw's book, and tied without a bobbin holder for the first ten years or so of tying. The waste of thread was what induced me to buy a holder in the first place. In a pinch, you don't need the rubber grommet either. Just clamp a hackle pliers to the thread when you need to maintain tension.
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    The problem in this case is Ticketmaster, which is using something called "dynamic pricing" which means that as demand goes up, so does the price, often multiple times per day. They are in effect doing the scalping themselves and cutting out the middle man.
  4. redietz
    My arrived today. A very nice set of flies. Touttramp -- thanks for hosting.
  5. redietz
    Metformin is one of the cheaper drugs out there. If you have part D medicare, it's like $3 for a 90 day supply. Of course, if you can avoid having to take it all together, that's better still.
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    That's counter clockwise. Oliver Edwards ties left handed and wraps under and away. Make for a nice video, because it shows up as looking like a right handed tyer would tie. That's not why he does it, though.
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    A mistake, IMO. Sawyer intended the fly to represent Baetis nymphs, which swim with their legs tucked against their side. All legs do is make the fly sink more slowly. The Euro nymph fishermen seem to do alright with Perdigons, which have no legs.
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    I'd glad, because according to USPS tracking, they never left the P.O. 😒
  9. redietz
    Heading off to P.O. in a couple of minutes. The white wing doesn't show up at all against w white background (it's taller than the hackle.)
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    I don't do it.
  11. redietz
    Morus pretty much is Pearsall's. It's a bit pricey, but I can't tell the difference.
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    Ground Moles

    redietz replied to flytire's topic in The Lodge

    They all turn out to be squirrels.
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    Ground Moles

    redietz replied to flytire's topic in The Lodge

    Ground moles? Are there tree moles?
  14. redietz
    You're right that there are far worse possibilities than appendicitis. Get well soon.
  15. redietz
    Bleach will work, as will washing in salt water.
  16. redietz
    The clinch knot is easier to seat correctly if you pull the running line (not the tag end.) If you can get the improved to seat correctly (a fairly big if) it may be a stronger knot. FWIW, I've never had a clinch knot fail in over 60 years of using it. I have had an "improved" clinch knot fail.
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    I'm in with a Patriot.
  18. redietz
    The first fly labeled with my name isn't mine. (The second one is.)
  19. redietz
    Picked up mine from the post office today. Well done, every one.
  20. redietz
    May I suggest (with the approval of others in swap) that when you find them, it might be better to donate them to a TU chapter or something similar, to be auctioned off. No reason you should have to pay for all that postage. Things happen. Thanks for hosting.
  21. redietz
    I can't say that I've found anything more valuable than a cheap camera, but if you add up the cost of all the forceps that I've found, you might be talking real money.
  22. redietz
    I tie with muskrat frequently, but I've only ever needed to buy one pelt. Not a high turnover.
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    I'd guess that any color that works for a mop fly would work. The flies are not dissimilar. OTOH, it can't very well be called a Green Weenie if it's not green, can it?
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    Edmonds & Lee substituted mole for water rat in every fly that appeared in both (and that Pritt called for water rat.) I think The Wind in the Willows had something to do with that; water rats had become beloved and moles were still seen as vermin. The water "rat" is actually a vole, as is the muskrat on this side of the Atlantic. The latter makes an acceptable sub for the former if you don't have mole handy.
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    I tie and fish this fly frequently. It does well for me year round in spring creeks, in spite of the lack of iron blue duns, or even blue quills. I've theorized that it gets taken for a cress bug.
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