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Also posted this in this month's "fly from the bench thread", but here is an inverted version of the fly I posted earlier:

Inverted Rusty Spinner (#12 2xl for Grey Drake Spinner) Green Caddis Larva (#16):

Standard "Orvis Spectrablend" dry fly dubbing in Rust. It is pretty much the same as any superfine dry fly dubbing.

Thanks guys - appreciate the comments. Love the story netabrookie! We did get into a few that were net worthy, but the pictures aren't as great. Here's an example of one of the bigger ones.

Hiked in for some classic Northeast Brook Trout fishing last weekend. Thought I'd share a few photos from the weekend. Here's a shot of the water: The Yellow Sally hatch was on most of the weekend: It wouldn't be a proper post around here if I didn't show a fly I tied, so here's a shot from the same weekend last year with a natural and one of mine: Of course, an actual shot of a Brookie is the prettiest image: I'll never get tired of the colors and beauty of these fish: I believe the first shot was a stocked fish, while the second is a native raised. Both beauties, but the fins on the second one blew my mind. Hope you enjoyed!

For reference, here's the real deal:

Sorry for the delay. Here's an example of a spinner I tied and fished last weekend. This is for the Gray Drake spinner hatch - tied on a #12 2xl dry fly hook. Not the best photo, but hopefully you can see the nice slim profile and segmenting the quill body provides. They were good enough for the trout, so good enough for me!

Any chance you would be willing to write up a quick step by step? I love the looks of this.

flies look good. I second the comment around trying a quill body - the spinners tend to be thin and the quill body gives you a wonderfully slim profile. I'll try to post a few pictures this evening of some spinners I used this weekend to great results.

I'm from NJ originally, live in Boston but have family in Flemington. I fish the gorge a few times a year. Great place.

Zebra midge (18-22) behind an olive caddis larva (14-16) consistently does well there for me. Also the RS2 in a 20 seems to be a good producer. Search the web for Shannon's fly shop - they do a fishing report with recommended patterns. Also, the fly tying video producer "tightline productions" on Vimeo has countless very well produced videos and his home water is the KLG.

Wow - great patterns. Thanks! PeteGray - I'm curious to see how you developed the segmentation in that shrimp. Very impressive! Most of the Caddis Larva videos I've seen use the resin as a replacement for head cement. I was thinking one could use it as the primary body material - either coloring with a marker between layers or putting down some thread on the hook at the start - but haven't seen this approach in a step-by-step.

I tie a fair number of scud and caddis larva. Both seem like great opportunity to use UV resins. I'd love to see examples of members using UV resins. Scud and Larva in particular, but open to any solid use of UV resin. Most of my experience thus far with UV resin is to build heads on streamers and I'm looking to branch out!

Hi Steve, I appreciate what you are doing and will be following this with interest... I was eyeing a fiberglass rod from another maker (Blue Halo.) I really like the looks but not so sure on the price for theirs. I will hold off and keep an eye on your product. Thanks! P.S. The ice jsut came off the local pond and my son is getting ready to put his new rod through it's maiden voyage!

That looks great - wish it was available on the iphone. I'm hoping to avoid purchasing a dedicated GPS device - not only the cost, but the need to carry another device. Especially since I'm not doing serious backcountry hiking, but am simply navigating from one pull off stream access to another most of the time. It's a shame that I can't access the Google maps I built which show all of these access points from the Google maps app - makes no sense!

This one is for the tech crowd... A thought occurred to me last night while I was looking through one of my guide books. I have a guide book with GPS coordinates for some new rivers I want to explore. I also have an iPhone that has GPS, turn by turn directions and a camera. It seems like I should be able to build a map with GPS coordinates from the book and log pictures as I explore the river. Seems to me, this would be an ideal way to build a "fishing log" of sorts. My first thought was to build the map in Google maps and then use the app to access the custom maps for navigation. Much to my dismay, the Google maps app doesn't allow access to the custom maps you can build online. Does anyone else use their phone or something else in a similar manner? Any recommendations for an app I could use to accomplish what I'm seeking to do? To summarize, I'm looking for a way to enter GPS coordinates into a map for a full river in advance, then use that map to navigate while fishing. A bonus would be the ability to log pictures / notes as I fish to track where I've been. Thanks!

I enjoyed that one too. You are right - when Xenie went on his rants it was pretty entertaining. I rented that one from iTunes.

My son and I have gotten into watching fly fishing movies together. I'm not the type to watch many movies for a second time, so I generally prefer to rent. Some of these movies can be rented through iTunes or Amazon. however, most are only available to outright purchase. I don't really want to spend $20-$30 to watch a movie. Has anyone found a site or method where one can rent fly fishing films? In particular, the Confluence Films titles look interesting. I'm also interested in any suggested movie titles! My son is seven, so I need to avoid those with adult language. Thanks!

Flies arrived. Excellent ties all around. Thanks everyone! Special thanks to Vicrider for hosting!

Flies are in the mail! I went a little off my plan due to what material I had on hand. My submission ended up as #28 CDC Midge Emerger, #24 Parachute Adams and #20 Rainbow Warrior.

Great link, thanks for sharing. It sounds like Veevus 12/0 or 14/0 is roughly the same diameter and breaking strength as the Uni 8/0 and Benecchi 12/0, while the Veevus 16/0 is slightly smaller?

I'm interested to hear from those of you that are using this thread in it's various sizes: how does the diameter compare to the Uni threads? To PHG's point, knowing both breaking strength and size would be really helpful in comparing and the 00 system isn't consistent across brands. Can someone that has both Veevus and Uni threads tell me which Veevus is comparable to Uni 6/0? How about Uni 8/0? Any chance someone could compare it to Benecchi 12/0? Thanks!

OK, great! Glad to hear folks are interested in some of the really small stuff. I'll tie a #30 CDC Midge Emerger and possibly a #24 Zelon Midge.

I'll join, thanks. How small can we go? I don't want to tie something so small folks would be disappointed, but we use #30 around here for a particular tailwater midge that is the most common hatch.

It is crazy how small we're willing to go. It is probably a warning sign when the hook gape is too small to stay on the toe tag - how the heck are we supposed to seat the hook in a jaw? I'm always amazed when I land one of a decent size on those 30s. Couldn't agree more, there's nothing like tying on a sculpin or bugger on 3x after dusk when you've been fishing #30 emerges on 8x for a couple of hours!