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invasionqt

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  1. They arrived!!!! They all look great and I can't wait to get them in the water. I am hoping to do a day trip on Sunday .
  2. As said above it depends on water conditions. I will always use the heaviest allowable. My go to sizes range between 5x and 7x.
  3. I clean it when it seems to need it. I primarily fish floating lines so when they don't go through the guides well or don't float well it is time to clean. Depending on the line size I will clean 20 to 60 feet because that is about all I fish. I have never used any floatant rejuvenation treatments.
  4. Picked mine up this morning. I can't wait to get to the water with them. Thanks again PB for hosting.
  5. I have found it to be related to pressured water. After runoff, as the summer progresses the flys get smaller and smaller on the pressured waters. There is a western river that gets pretty heavy pressure and the fish can get pretty snooty, but there is an adjacent tributary that doesn't get even a 1/100 the pressure and you can fish size 8 hoppers and 12 and 14 adams all day long. Very rarely will a fiesty 14 inch brown refuse you offering if it is in the right drift. I tie only select patterns smaller than 18 and nothing smaller than 22; I buy the 24 to 28 stuff when I need it.
  6. Tying tonight...should be done tomorrow; should have them in the mail this week. Tying a red/black simi seal egg sucking leach.
  7. I use the safety pin, but the rings I have are so small the gauge of the safety pin is OK to get the rings on but not small enough to get even 6X tippet by. May have to look for a smaller safety pin.
  8. I just started using them on regular tapered leaders. So far I would rate the experience highly positive. The draw back is you really need to set up your leaders at home with the rings. They are next to impossible to handle alone in the field. I have take a few leader and cut back about 15 to 18 inches, depending on the leader length and tied on a tippet ring and put it back in the package. When I change out the leader I just tie fresh tippet on the ring. I really like the visual reference to change my tippet. Once my tippet gets to be less than about 15 inches or so I change the tippet. I find myself changing tippet more often after a couple or three large fish and I have fewer break offs. Not that leaders are that expensive, I see that I might be able to get a lot longer time with one leader.
  9. My flies will never win a contest or rave reviews from even novice tyers, but the fish seem to like them and I am ok with that.
  10. I have become partial to the Davy knot for small flies. Through may tests the Davy has performed well and in 7 months I have broken one knot. It has replaced the clinch knot for me. On larger stuff I will still use a Palomar knot that goes back to my lure days.
  11. Nymphs for tying and fishing only because most of my fish come on nymphs or attractors. Drys produce few fish but the shear visual enjoyment is hard to pass up.
  12. Do you know what the mono loops do? I can't think of anything ... The double ended mono loop is to adjust the fly up and down the leader as needed for nymphing.
  13. I started tying for trout. I started tying SJ worms and SS leaches to save money. Saving money has went by the wayside and now it is about the pure satifaction of catching fish on something I tie. It is so cool to spend a few hours tying up a set of flies and going out the next day and catching fish.
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