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Jimr1961

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  1. You can also dip the church windows and other feathers #3 in polyurethane, slip them through your fingers and let them dry on wax paper to make hopper and caddis wings. I strip and dip them, slip them between my fingers to wring off and get a good shape, then lay it on its natural curve on wax paper. When you peel them off, the shine comes off of the top side, so I re-dip and turn them over. I don't dry them on their inner side down because I don't want them to dry in funny shapes. A second dip brings back the shine and it can dry with the shape already set in. I guess I should give credit where credit is due. I got the idea from Jack Gartside.
  2. I use a Renzetti Traveler 2200.
  3. Bell curves, a fisher after my own heart They may not read, but the learn what food bites back I'll probably use it for the first time on Hot Creek in the Owens Valley, CA. in early fall. We'll see if it entices or lip-locks 'em.
  4. That was my thinking as well. I thought, while hackle size is imperative for properly floating the fly on the surface, a parachute may be more forgiving on a slight oversize. Maybe not an undersize, but that's never my problem. I'm currently out of hackle of a certain color for size 14 and smaller, so I tied on a natural rooster neck appropriate for a size 10 and a grizzly of size 12. It looked o.k., but obviously, a little long. It's a parachute adams.
  5. Hi All, when in a pinch, can you get away with oversized hackle on a parachute fly? Oversized meaning the hackle extends all the way to the end of the tail rather than to the end of the body.
  6. 1974 when I was 13, I got my first kit from my uncle. A little piece of bent steel they called a vise and some other, things. I loved it and tied for about two years, but never learned to fly fish. The other day, my son (13) was looking at my fly box (I'm going to Tehipite Valley for a week to fly fish) and asked me if I would teach him how to tie flies and fly fish. So, I'm currently gearing up to get back into it. I just got a vise (A Renzetti Traveler 2200) and now in a hold pattern until I get the rest of the tools and enough material to tie many of the flies I want to bring with me to TV. I'm looking forward to getting back into a hobby from my youth.
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