troutguy

Vicrider always troublesome. First you get Flytire to become Flytired working the toilet. Now this.

They have arrived. Thank you for the extras

My set arrived yesterday too. Funny Bob Nelson you complain, constantly about the South Carolina Pony Express and your flies and mine arrived the same day..............Hey that's probably not good. Thanks BB. Great swap. Nice flies all.

Tie ten and you get one of yours back.

Seriously Flytire do you have time? Is the toilet fixed? I'm telling Vicrider

Thanks elusive

OMG no offense taken!!!!!!!!!!! I saw you second post after I posted, but I still would have called you......COLD LOL I am running a swap for Thundercreek streamers and trying to fill it. I love the challenge of the Hatchery Run on the Davidson. I have heard cursing and observed rods thrown. I love to fish behind someone who thinks they are an expert. One trick I will publicly talk about is when fishing a hole that has those huge post breeder trout that have seen everything, follow a guy that puts down every midge, nymph, small dry, san juan gardener or whatever. Tie on a #2 muddler minnow or a large sculpin head and slap it on the water. Let it sit and count to ten and retrieve. Especially in the Fall it brings out the predatory nature, not hunger. Hey Cold and LesG I am deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeply offended by your offensive comments. I will never accept your apologies unless you fill up my Thundercreek swap. LOL

Thanks PHG

OK so who wants to tie Thundercreeks?

WOW Cold.......that is...well, you know.....COLD. No I am offering instruction and free flies to someone in a swap I organized to get other swap members. It is called bribery. I don't want flies. I tie too many as it is. Cheech don't make it more complicated then it needs to be. The fly is pretty well thought out for its pupose. It fools very selective trout. The ultra or micro chenile needs to be held in a flame first, Trim the melted part back a bit, so it isn't noticeable. If you don't, the chenile unwinds. Doug Swisher and Carl Richards worked to make low floating natural profile Mayflies in the 1970's and this is a prodigy of their ideas. The dubbing makes the fly sit wrong in the water. So does adding to much hackle. In still water I tie a wrap or a wrap and a half of hackle. Going a size larger on the hackle gives the fly a better surface tension. Simple very effective fly that floats low, easy to mend and gives you a long natural bug and a long natural drift. Be careful of the head size as well. The hook is an older Mustad size 12. More of an egg hook than a caddis or scud type. The large hook bend acts as a better keel yet keeps the hook small and unobtrusive. The post could even be a bit of bright egg yarn if you have trouble seeing the fly in the glare. The trouble with parachute flies is they are commonly tied with too much stuff and they sit funny on the surface. For a fly designed to get rid of drama on the Davidson River, this has certainly added drama to this thread, LOL. Or have we taken ourselves too serious on this site?

Size 12 beetle.

If no one by this evening I will close it.

Add147 I will send SBS with your return thundercreeks

Two that may work under twenty

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xtraveler+vise+bobbin+cradle.TRS0&_nkw=traveler+vise+bobbin+cradle&_sacat=0

Get another swapper add147 and I will send you two of them.

Fishing the Davidson River in North Carolina below the hatchery is always drama. Intense drama. Especially during warm months. Smooth water, huge fish over twenty inches and an incredible fishing pressure. Those huge floating logs slowly drifting up sipping every fly but yours. This fly gives a great profile and is sparse enough to fool the trout that have seen the entire Umpqua catalogue . This fly has always been the saver. Sometimes in fly fishing you have to save the drama for your momma and catch fish. This is the fish catcher .

Putting leader sink on a dry fly was common too or putting floatant on a wet.

Hey Mikechell look for Black Frog of Death post. I thought you would enjoy

OK I just HAD to post this. It is on a black bread bun.

LOL ... "No, Ma'am ... I go commando ... I am buying these to tie flies with." You almost owed me a laptop!!!!!!!!!! I spit tea reading this!!!!!!!!!

No Mikechell you were not the one. Nor was FlaFly.

Dr. Vette ... like you said in a previous post, you don't know this guy and don't remember him from previous threads. Don't bother defending him, he made his bed and then peed in it himself, none of us did it to him. Most people never gave him a hard time, he just couldn't take the criticism he asked for. He took offense quickly and then started whining about someone persecuting him on other sites and his own. I am pretty sure no one from THIS site has done that. Members from this site didn't "beat him up" ... but he took it that way. So now, any negative remark is taken as an insult or something. And of course, at this point ... it's become something of a joke. Clapping

Stabgnid if I was a striper or bass or salt water fly fisher I would join to get that fly! Nice color choice.

Kevin in. Stabgnid very cool.