jamieofthenorth

Tungsten October Caddis Nymph, size 12.

Ha ha, true! A little adrenaline always makes things more fun. Still, be careful! Those great whites have made their way to southern Maine, hope they don't start showing up the coast my way... I want to get into striper fishing more next year.

He's spoiled alright, that's for sure! 😁

My groove was interrupted last night while tying up a batch of size 20 Olive Biot Duns when my beagle mix decided he wanted to be on my lap and pinned down my right arm.

Always fun to look back and see how far you've come, and fun to ponder in another year what you will think if you look back on today.

If anyone wishes to see it in action, here ya go. The commentary on the fly is pretty funny, to boot.

Whoa, nice find! That's one to hold on to, for sure.

Mark's right. FWIW, I don't think it's out of bounds, just wondering if others thought it would be though (I didn't think many would). I'm actually thinking of making a batch at some point before spring.

We had some big storms move through Maine today, that might have knocked their website offline (we lost power for about 3.5 hours).

Not that I'm an expert, but that looks like a good starter list to me. Just wanted to echo Mikechell's suggestion of tying a few dozen of each pattern to help get them down. I know that was tough for me to do when I first started, as I got fly tyer ADD and wanted to tie everything in sight and only ended up doing a few of each. If you can resist that and focus on repeating the same fly, it'll speed up your skillsets and learning quite a bit. I thought Flytyer had a lot of great suggestions. I would underscore the elk wing caddis. You are already familiar with wrapping hackle with the wooly buggers, and the elk wing from the X-Caddis. The EWC is generally more popular and is also deadly effective. Best wishes and have fun. There's always something new to learn and that's the beauty of it.

That's a fine batch right there! Nice work! I hope your elderly friend had a good day at the river. Very kind of your wife to take her.

Yes, but the publisher might still own the rights to the book. It doesn't become public domain until either 70 years after the author has died or 95 years after publication, depending on the circumstances.

Nobody in particular, really. I grew up spin fishing for largemouth bass in Florida so already loved fishing in general. When I moved to Maine in 2004, picking up fly fishing just seemed logical. Fortunately, some friends in my running circles also fly fished, so I had some people to go with and things just picked up from there.

That's exactly it. I've self-published a few books on running and when I was researching marketing strategies, this came up quite often.

I bet the movement on that is quite awesome. Nice one.

October Caddis, size 10. Bring on autumn!

Tim Flagler, hands down. His videos are just so well done and helpful. A.K. Best would be second.

Anyone ever “tie” or use this pattern? Would you consider it out of bounds or perhaps a product of ingenuity? Apparently they are somewhat popular in Scandinavia. http://flugfiskeinorden.se/ismopuppan-sa-binder-du-den/

Good points. Of the X amount of people that might - with the best intentions - pick up the sport because of the pandemic, news coverage, etc., probably only a very small percentage will actually stick with it, for better or for worse. I should keep an eye on Facebook Marketplace for a new 1-2 weight. 🙂

Really nice! Not that I didn't appreciate any of the Catskill-style flies before, but a lot of recent reading on their history has greatly increased my interest. Great job.

This is a brilliant idea! Thanks for the tip, Poopdeck.

Very cool! That's a great keepsake for sure.

Great looking fly! Nice work, McFlyLures.

Great, thanks Dave!

Stimulator, size 10. Flared the tails a bit, but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with them.