Futzer

J. you should start a club, the six of you need to stick together. You could all meet sometime and fish together, that would really confuse some good ole boys.

Cheers, Futzer.

Thank god we did not call it a swap package. Cheers Futzer.

BigDaddyHub served a restraining order to stay away from local petting zoo, details at 5.

Too many bald baby barn animals.

Just teasting, good advice. Cheers, Futzer

Hey Flyfisher 117, PM Brian Brown75 and Bruce Derrington, It is time Brian taught an Egg class. Just last year he came to the forum wanting to learn egg flies, now he is a master. It is all in the thread tension.

Cheers, Futzer.

Hi Mike, Get yourself a big roast and a bag of marshmallows, and some scissors. Go to West Yellowstone, wait until 4 am behind Strozy's bar. Put the roast in the dumpster and make a line of marshmallows from the fence of the park to the dumpster and when the bears go for it, clip and run. Unlimited supply of Black and Grizzly hair. J/King, but I have seen many bears go dumpster diving in West late at night.

Cheers, Futzer.

My ears were burnin' Futzers in!!!!!

If I get real crazy, I will do #32 double humpies. Kidding aside. I would be honored to participate. Thanks for thinking of me Dezod and Salty, and just to sweeten the pot I will send hooks and some 8X fluorocarbon, for the lucky winner (excluding myself from the contest portion). Utyer, or anyone participating anything special you'd like to see tied? I will tie something suggested. Fred, you may want to join this one, 32's will catch panfish, we just need to get you a 0 or 1 weight

:-).

Thanks Salty for PMing me, I have been working like a madman and have not been keeping up with the forum lately. I sure hope someone is fishing, I need some stories.

Cheers, Jeff aka Futzer.

Good Luck Chance, Sorry, I have been post office challenged due to work, but I still will send a few dries I tied for you. Next trip.

Cheers, Jeff.

Hi Bob, Mine are still in my hands, but headed out soon. Cheers, Jeff.

Hi Gage, I knew you would appreciate the quality, and I still advise you to spend as much money on trips as you can, between High school and college, I spent 4 weeks fishing around West Yellowstone. I was young, 18, and it was a opportunity to be on my own and grow some. I wish I had spent all summer there, mostly sleeping in a tent or my volkswagon. I did not fully appreciate that time until I turned 40 + and started watching summers wiz by with only a day or two on the water.

Anyway, old fart rant. Cheers, Jeff.

Sorry. Most people just post their websites to tell people about them. What's so bad about that? it's just a free site I thought somebody might be interested.

Well Michael, I sense no ill will with your post, but Ibian does have a point, at least run it by Smalliehunter, permission wise. I do see your link tag has the forum URL there, at least add JStockards URL, they pay the bills, so to speak.

Cheers, Futzer.

I start whit this,and here is the outcome a great fly to grayling

Hi Micke, Just a little more futzer useless information. I love fishing Grayling, and in Utah it is a little hard to do, we have only a few places that contain them. Here a 12" Grayling is a real monster. But they do like the dry flies. My favorite pattern is a size 18 2xl peacock and starling softhackle with a fine red wire rib. Now for the secret. I angle the hook 10° to the side of the hook shank so they are no longer straight parallel. As you look straight at the hook eye the point bends left or right. Grayling have soft mouths and they sort of mash down the dryfly vs. suck it in. My hook ups went up dramatically bending my hooks.

Also Thanks Mike and Brian for the damsel shout out.

Cheers, Jeff.

PS, if I was near my bench I would post a fly pick of the grayling fly, but not home now.

Hi Carp Starter, How are the scissors working out? or is their maiden voyage in the Fall. I think if you look through the fly database you will find a nice mix of perfection, interesting technique and just as importanly well tied flies that are spartan but meant to catch fish. I know I can certainly appreciate all interpretations. So we welcome your selections and effort. I truly love a fine micro bug too, so I do hope you share your work. Sorry to hear you suffered back issues, I can only imagine how crummy that would be. Hopefully, you are well and flyfishing.

Cheers, Futzer.

Oh, and if you ever want to start a Micro bug Carp cult, I am in. It sounds excentric enough to be fun.

OK, OK, Who owns the Petitjean????? I love really tech cool stuff and want one badly, even as I harp all the time about my Dynaking. And reading back, I want to tie with Ibian, priorities I say. I think this is a bit humorous, as I also hang out on an Audiophile forum and this sounds like the endless debate on the best speakers.

Cheers, Jeff

Thanks, Halcyon, Just proves even after 40 years of tying you can still learn many things.

Cheers, Jeff.

Cheers, Jeff :cheers:

Hi Mike, you can clean them that way, I would use a milder detergent than Dawn, as it will take oils out of the CDC. Like Ivory liquid soap and a barely sudsy solution. Make sure to fluff them as they dry. You can apply a little cdc oil to your finished products too. I spilled a coke on a pile of CDC once and it was still usable, but not grade A again.

Cheers, Jeff.

Hi Jan, Someday go fish the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan rivers in Colorado, you got the bug. Cheers, Jeff.

 

I plan to someday I tied this with some of that awsome hackle I got from you :headbang:

 

 

 

 

Jan

Let me know, someday we should fish there together, I have people. Cheers, Jeff.

Hi Mike, let me add on to the fine list already started, and I am just telling some of my favorites too, a little off task.

The complete book of Western hatches, by Rick Hafele and Dave Hughes, I go to this often

Troutnut.com, great info

Praise for good flies, John Gierach

A. K.'s Fly box, A.K. Best

Production fly tying, A.K. Best

The Fly Tier's Bench reference, Ted Leeson, Jim Schollemyer

Along with the Beatty's Pattern Encyclopedia. And the fly database on flytyingforum.com, it is coming up fast.

Also Umpqua.com fly index.

Cheers, Futzer.

Northern Hog Sucker? Cheers, Jeff.

Hi Jan, Someday go fish the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan rivers in Colorado, you got the bug. Cheers, Jeff.

Thanks Guys, no rest for the wicked though. I did enjoy a perfectly rare tenderloin and some fresh picked white corn, and an Oregon Pinot Noir, so fun was had. I should add, that I was born, 3 weeks to the day of Papa Hemingway's passing and I share the same B-day week with Hunter S. Thompson and the same day as UffePuffe, I really enjoy all those links. I have the July Life Magazine in 1961, with the story of Hemingways passing.

Happy B-Day UffePuffe too.

Cheers, Jeff.

It is kind of like a loud fart in Church, you should do everything to avoid it, but once in a great while it happens. Usually reserved for old men, and young boys. And I say it this way, cause one time on the Provo river my size 20 BWO was just too big, didn't have anything smaller, and was watching a 16 plus inch brown come up regularly. I clipped and hooked up, but did not land that fish. Now I carry every small size bug I can. And I would never ever clip around Freak, even streamside.

Cheers, Futzer.

Hi Ross, very interesting idea, I am thinking classic melded wing wet, red white and blue wing, gold tinsel with oval gold tinsel rib, Purple tail and an eye of purple feather cut into a heart shape as Claudia demonstrated in Fred's one feather competition last year. Gold Hook.

Just a thought. I unfortunately do not know when I can prototype one this week, I will be on the road.

Cheers, Jeff.

HI Jan, Now do you wonder why nearly everyone ties tricos with black bodies and white wings, just makes you pay attention more to real insects.

Cheers, Jeff.

Aren't you handy Ray, good work, Cheers, Jeff.