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Try putting a little dubbing wax under the hook (the one on the clip, not the one in your vise.) Works for me.

You and Elmer Fudd.

Which doesn't actually mean it that it wasn't doing it's job. Sometimes an attractor fly will alert fish to the more realistic fly it's teamed with. For me, a pink San Juan worm doesn't necessarily catch a lot of fish, but it sure increases the number of fish I catch on another fly just below it. Rocco hit the nail on the head when he said If you don't like a fly, it gets tied on less frequently than other flies, and if you do tie it on, it's often out of desperation when nothing else is catching fish either. When, predictably, it fails to produce a miracle, it just further reinforces your bias against it. All of the flies mentioned catch fish for people who fish them frequently, just not for people who have no confidence in them.

Woolly bugger -- at least for trout. I've never caught a trout on one.

Agree 100%.

I prefer necks for the same reasons that you don't like them. There's a variety of feather sizes; I still tie down to 22, which I can't find on a saddle. plus the larger hackles make for tailing material. I agree, though that sometimes being able to tie 3-4 dries with one feather is a convenience (and you can skip the hackle pliers) but if I want to do that, I'd just as soon buy the Hundred packs rather than a whole saddle.

Those appear to be saddles, not necks.

Cream Pale dun Furnace Brown (Red Game) Cree

I agree.

Gotta love fore and aft flies!

What the heck, count me in. They did a feature on Renegades a year or so back. I'll do those if I can't find anything else.pr EDIT: If I can get the proper hackle in time, I'll be doing the Little Yellow Stone from the article "Spring Patterns for the Rocky Mountains." If I can't get it, can I tie a variant? I usually use cream hackle for this fly.

I agree, they are a good set of beginner's flies.

If I can find someone to borrow a camera from, I will.

There's an even simpler way to tie a blood worm with D-tubing. Just strap a short piece on top of the hook with open spiral wraps. The front stops just short of the hook eye, and I usually add a couple of turns of peacock herl there just to make it feel like I've actually tied something. The rear extends to the back of the hook (but it's only strapped down to the bend). I've caught many fish on that over the years.

With the big caveat that the comparison is between line weight (AFTMA #) and the diameter of a silk line: Wi And as I said above, in many cases, you may prefer one modern weight lighter than the chart indicates.

Some misinformation on that page! Weber sold rods as well as flies, mostly trade rods made by Heddon. I've got a couple of them.

"D" is usually equated to a modern 6 weight, and since tastes have changed to prefer faster feeling rods, many (not all by any means) cast better with a 5.

He certainly used it for the Gray Wulff and the Grizzzly Wullf, and it's still used for those flies. The Royal Wullf isn't actually one of Wulff's patterns; it was Dan Bailey's.

That's correct -- Hoagy B(ix) Carmichael is the son of composer, not the composer. And he's very much still with us.

Which one do you think offers better job satisfaction? Not everything boils down to the Benjamins.

Partridge and anything.

It's not really a question of being offended; it's a question of not feeling that they belong here. If I were to find a site where, say, a bachelorette party was being planned, I wouldn't be offended, but I wouldn't feel that I belonged, either.

I rest my case that this site might make women uncomfortable.

I think that as far as the Hardy's store in London goes (not the company as a whole) their business model is to cater to the carriage trade. It's hard to maintain a cachet of elitism if you wait on just anyone.

There is something in that, but there are fly fishing/tying sites that to which women do actively contribute. This doesn't seem to be one of them. My wife died when my son was 7. I did all the cooking, cleaning, child raising, shopping, laundry, etc, tied flies, and still managed to find time to contribute to on-line fora.