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redietz

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  1. Nice. It never occurred to me before that the Latin name for the Mayfly (E. Danica, as opposed to "mayfly", meaning any insect of the order ) meant "Danish." It should have been obvious.
  2. The Ken Lockwood is favorite of mine, possibly because I spent so many days fishing Ken Lockwood Gorge in my younger years. It's my go to bucktail for dark water. Nice, sparse ties.
  3. Just picked my set up from the post office. Not only good tying, but some wonderful ideas there as well. Thank you atxdiscgolfer for hosting.
  4. I have rods in all weight from 2 to 8. Most are 4,5, or 6. No odd/even for me.
  5. Good stuff. There are some real classics there.
  6. I'm sorry for your loss. The reality of getting older is that you're going to lose more and more people who are close to you. I don't know how the people who reach 100 stand the loneliness.
  7. That way works if you don't care about building up bulk in the body, for example in a heavily dubbed body. If you want to keep it slim, like a thread or pheasant tail body, use this method: You can trim the stem much closer to the eye than he does.
  8. I've done exactly the same thing with a old Sucrets box when they were making them out of plastic for a few years. I put eight holes in it. It stays in the vented inner pocket of my vest. Wet flies go in and they're invariably dry an hour later.
  9. You have at least two options: 1) Don't use head cement 2) Get some color preserver from a rod making supplier and coat the head (and allow to dry) before applying head cement. You might also try using primrose silk and letting the head cement darken it to a light green.
  10. I've had considerable luck with the Wood Special for LL's, although I've only fish it in streams: Wood Special
  11. The mail seems really fast for this swap, considering how long it seems to take to get anything else delivered recently.
  12. Better than reaching in your pocket and finding a $50 bill you'd forgotten about!
  13. And I've caught fish on it just like that.
  14. Not much of a challenge for me. I already catch a lot of fish on a Stewart's Black Spider, which is just a starling feather. Or you suggesting that no thread be involved? And if you're allowing thread, there's all sorts of soft hackles that use nothing but one feather and thread.
  15. It may have rabid. You were wise to avoid it. They don't look like they're built for speed, but they can run amazingly fast.
  16. Looks like a crippled minnow. Try fishing it dead drift. It night works wonders.
  17. Flies are in the mail. I tied them as per the dressing in Fly Tyer (but a size smaller) and included a few extras tied the way I usually tie them. I don't know if they're of any use to you in Texas, but at least they should be good for panfish.
  18. I was guessing you were going to say something like 6s2p, but 9700 mAh is a serious capacity, and 120c is a higher discharge rate than any battery I've seen. Do you use a separate battery for the receiver? I guess the failsafe isn't as important in truck as it would be in a 1/5 scale airplane.
  19. I'm not sure that counter wrapping the rib actually is any better on this fly (I never do so); just the wording was wrong. You've got good technique.
  20. What battery configuration are you planning on using?
  21. Beside not being a BND, the instructions said to counter wrap the rib, but the video showed it being wrapped in normal direction.
  22. Got it. Flies are tied, still need to toe tag.
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