AlexC

This is a great looking pattern, John. Where do you buy that particular chenille?

I'm just a little bit, er, whole lot biased, but you'll find no better collection of wet fly info, photos, or tiers anywhere on the web than at our own classic fly tying forum. If wet flies are your thing, thats where you'll find the best of the best of the very best- all more than eager to share their knowledge and lend a helping hand to those who seek it.

Don Bastian has a good blog on classic wets, too.

Right now, I'm shooting with a D60. I really don't want to fall into the trap of continually chasing new camera bodies- instead, I plan on focusing on good lenses- but, there are a few features the D60 is missing that I would really like to have (auto focus with AF lenses, auto bracketing, faster on board flash, etc.).

I'm starting to look at higher end bodies and use the D60 as a backup/2nd unit, and I'd obviously like to stick with Nikon. I was thinking about a D90, but like I said, I want to make this the last body I buy for a while as I stock up on good glass. So what do you guys shooting with a D90, D200, D300, etc., think? Will I get a D90 and wish I would have spent a little more and got D300? ( I've already eliminated the D200)

Thanks

Paul, I'm just around the corner from Cooperstown and know just the place for you. Shoot me an email.

Thats a pig, man! What was up with the chewed up spot behind the gill plate?

great lookin' streamers, Pat, but the steelheaders already beat you to the design.

Great looking pattern, I bet this one fishes well. :headbang:

the key to the sage rods is the line that comes with them. A lot of 'regular" fly rods will act and feel just as great when throwing big flies if you're using the right line.

I fish alot of cheaper rods for the small warmwater flows I haunt. I have been known to dump rods out of canoes, boats, and floattubes...I love my Plfueger Trion rod...I have fished Pflueger rods for years and have never had to replace any of them...I have never broken one under normal fishing conditions...ever...I've busted three Loomis and two Orvis rods on hook sets....Now I fish mid level Ross's and the Pfluegers....no complaints...

I'll also second this. I've had an 8wt pfleuger medalist rod for over 5 years now- that I picked up from a MI salmon/steelhead guide used, so who knows how old the rod actually is. I've abused the heck out of that rod and it is still kicking.

If the price of the Nikkor 105mm is more than you want to pay, you might also want to check out the Sigma 105mm macro lens. Its a hell of a lens for the money.

I'm happy with mine.

Thanks, that seems like a difference I can live with

A couple months ago I made a post here about how excited I was to finally have my first dslr. Well, a few weeks back, there was a rising water incident on a tailwater I fish and I killed my new dslr (d3000). The body is dead, but the lens and battery are still in good shape.

Fast forward to today, and I got my second dslr, (a refurbished d60), which leads to my question. The battery that came with the d60-ordered from B&H- is a Nikon EN-EL9. The Battery I still have from the d3000 is a EN-EL9a. According to B&H's website, the 9a is compatible with the d60. However, looking at each battery, they have different specs.

EN-EL9

7.4V 1000mAh

EN-EL9a

7.2V 1080mAh

Is the difference between the two a big deal? Thanks

or, just pull them out of the way when trimming, a la Chris Helm, then reposition them after.

I got a pair of the Korkers Guide boots this year and so far have no complaints. The BOA lacing system is freaking awesome. They've also got interchangeable soles, so that was nice on a recent backcountry trip I took where I needed a studded sole for wading and a normal sole for the 5 mile hike to where I was fishing. I've got the plain felt sole(haven't used them yet), the trail lug sole(used that for hiking in), and the studded Mossy Rock soles (what I've used for all of my wading with them so far).

Not sure about their sizing, but here is a link to the boots.

http://www.korkers.com/footwear/fishing/gu...ading-boot.html

If they don't have the size you're after, I've also had a positive experience with Chota's boots. Not a big fan of Simms boots as the one pair of Simms boots I had in the past self destructed on me in less than a season- and they were pretty stiff. I love their waders though.

This is all quite ridiculous. I don't know of any "fly tying police" out there whose job it is to determine what is and isn't a fly. The fact that some people take it upon themselves to police others is pretty sad, IMO, and makes them look small in the end. The realistic flies posted in this forum are second to none, and its sad to see this constant bickering as I am sure that it turns people away from tying realistic flies or posting them here. When this forum was created, it was about having fun and about trying new techniques. It was never about putting others and/or their tying methods down. What happened here? Its no wonder some of the truly great realistic tiers who used to frequent this area of FTF are now vacant. Just because someone uses a technique you don't care for doesn't make it wrong. Open your eyes to what others are doing and incorporate what you can, or what you want to, into your own tying. Its okay to be a serious tier, but sometimes, some of us take this stuff way too seriously. Have fun, and enjoy learning from one another.

I did an article on carp flies for the 2010 issue of Hatches, you should check it out when it hits newstands. There are a few really productive dragon nymphs in it, one of which I think you're really going to appreciate.

Thanks guys!

Kirk, the guy in the background is Bob Mead. http://hatchesmagazine.com/blogs/Hatches/2...alex-cerveniak/

A while back I mentioned that I was working on a photoblog. Well, it got pushed to the backburner for a while, but last week I got around to setting it up.

http://www.alexkain.com

It's actually a portfolio for both my photography and writing stuff. To see the photo galleries, just click one of the links in the top of the right sidebar.

(An FYI- I purchased the domain name through godaddy for like $6/year, and it is hosted for free by FlyAddicts.com- one of Smalliehunter's other sites besides FTF. One of the cool things about using wordpress, which FlyAddicts does, is all of the plugins that are available for it. I'm using a plugin that integrates my site with my flickr photo sets, so whenever I upload a new photo to flickr, it automatically shows up on my website in the appropriate gallery. Setting the whole site up took probably 30 minutes, tops. I highly encourage any of you who are thinking about a photoblog to check it out. There are lots of "themes" you can use to display your work, so you can make your site look however you want. If it is something you might be interested in, but don't know what to do, just contact myself or Will (smalliehunter) and we'll be happy to help you out.

One more thing, you don't need to have your own domain, if you want, you can have your photo blog- or any other type of blog- hosted at flyaddicts with a domain name that kind of looks like the following, http://www.flyaddicts.com/yoursitesnamehere)

Anyways, check out my site, hopefully you like what you see- and if I left your name off of the links list in the sidebar, shoot me a PM and we can swap links.

A 4wt is fine for the AuSable(the Au Sable is in Michigan ). That said, if you have the option of going up to a 5 or 6, I would take it. Flows are typically pretty fast and if you decide to fish subsurface with nymphs or streamers, you're going to be using some heavy flies, or more split shot than normal, to get deep enough. Also due to the swift flow, if you hook into a fish of any considerable size, you're going to want a rod with enough backbone to fight the fish and the current. I'd also recommend studded wading boots and/or a wading staff. There are some easier areas to wade, and plenty of rocks to fish from, but that river also has some of the toughest wading conditions I've ever encountered. Have fun up there, the stretch along 86 from just northeast of Lake Placid to Betters Pool is one of the prettiest stretches of river you could come across.

Why not use a light cured epoxy such as Clear Cure Goo and get rid of the turner all together? It cures in like 5 seconds.

Very cool, congrats to both of you :thumbup:

Nice shot, Steve. Gotta love all the trees that are flowering right now.

Took this pic a few days ago.

From all the homework I did when I was looking for a camcorder, you're better off buying a high quality standard definition camcorder than a cheap HD cam. One of the pieces I read said that almost all HD cams are pretty much crap till you get up around the $1000 mark.

That said, a good friend just bought the Canon Vixia HD40(records on mini hddv) and is really happy with it. I just looked and it's about $650 on amazon. Another friend got the next model up that records onto it's own hard drive. I think he paid like $900 or so. I got the Canon fs200, a standard def camera and absolutely love it for web stuff, family home videos, etc. The picture quality is excellent. It's got a lot of "high end" features including a jack for an external mic, etc. I think it was like $250.