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If you are just learning and don't want to spend a lot and want a simple stationary vise, I would go with a Thompson A or simmilar. I can help you better if I know what type of flies you will be tying the most. What will you be fishing for?

Spreken zie Deutsch? Jawel natuurlijk! {Do you speak German?} { Yes Naturally} I was just lucky that I speak a few different languages . I got mine for a steal on ebay Germany 171.00 EUR Euro = 216.652 USD United States Dollars 1 EUR = 1.26697 USD 1 USD = 0.789285 EUR At the Lazzeri shop online or any of his dealers it retails for 322.00 Eur.+ 99.00 shipping freight You might find it cheaper elsewhere. Live mid-market rates as of 2006.09.29 21:18:28 UTC. 322.00 EUR Euro = 408.030 USD United States Dollars 1 EUR = 1.26717 USD 1 USD = 0.789158 EUR

This is my newest vise the, Morsetto Orion 3, Lazerri's newest bent knee rotary. As far as machining and quality goes, it doesn't get any better. The Lazzeri Orion3 made in Italy is one classy looking little vise with loads of eye appeal, machined of stainless steel and a non tarnishing mat finish brass alloy with a mat black base. The Lazzeri Orion is so........ smooth, so well engineered, and so user / hand friendly it is like comparing a Ferrari to a farm tractor when comparing it to other rotary vises. Full review will be posted later this week after I have had a little more tying time on it.

Forgotten Flies is a wonderful book. I don't yet have a copy, but my brother-in-law lets me borrow his periodically. Someday I would love to add it to my collection.

The Master Fly Weaver, George F. Grant - -very 1st signed limited edition 1791/1950

There is a number of things you can use. Girls small regular ponytail elastics work fine, or even better a 3/8" o ring from a hardware store or a fine spring out of a ball point pen. Just bend two little hooks on the ends and loop it around like a material clip.

Well being mainly a trout fisherman, I'd have to say pheasant tail and peacock hurl. Give me those two materials a hook and some thread and I'll catch you a trout anywhere.

Far out!!!!! I guess it's true, great minds do think alike! Do people actually still say Far out? Or am I just getting to be an old fart? :wheelchair: I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the link.

Maybe we should set it up that if you want to become a member you have to put in a request and have it answered to your email address. That way not just anybody can sign up and post garbage on our forum. Any Ideas?

Awwww! I knew you guys where going to delete all that garbage, but you could have left my reply. That was halarious. :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:

See you can find the stuff anywhere. If I had of been smart, I should have kept my mouth shut, found a wholsale source cut it up into little three inch squares, marked it with a fancy name like Streamside Super Wing! and sold it to you guys with a 300% markup. :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:

Same here. Now you can buy just about any dubbing blend texture or color you will ever need.

I experimented or babbled in making my own dubbing blends . I say that lightly because I only did to satisfy my own curiosity and I didn't have the ambition nor the patience to pursue the project very far. I tried dry mixing using a coffee hand grinder and I also tried the wet method using a Proctor Sillex mini processor. The later ended up being the better of the two methods, but in all honesty I found both to be a pain in the :butt: and take more of my time and patience than they where worth so I quickly nipped that in the :butt: and went back to buying dubbing blocks. Proctor Silex Mini Chop is great for blending, dying or bleaching.

I don't do very well with ISO emerger patterns for some reason, especially weighted or beaded patterns. Maybe it's just me and I'm just not doing it right. It's not a very big hatch here so I don't concentrate on it. But if I happen to hit a hatch just right, I find when the trout are zeroing in on ISOs they are very selective and turn up their noses at most traditional emerger patterns and the first two stages of the hatch, so I wait it out. Instead, the larger trout tend to hold back and do a lot of cherry picking, keying in on slow drifting cripples in the slack water and accumulation areas at the back of the pools , so that is how I tend to fish them. The flies I have had most success with are the compara style cripple patterns with a curved abdomen hanging just below the surface film and fished on a long slow uninterupted dead drift. More than once I have had large trout follow a cripple ISO the entire length of a drift only to smash it at the very last second.

Oh man, It's just awesome! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: I'm lovin it. The first movie I watched was "A River Runs Through It" . It has built in surround sound that is pretty good on it's own, but right now I'm thinking about adding the Bose CineMate digital home theater speaker system to complete the package. I made the stupid mistake of stopping in and checking one out the other day. The salesman was good, I gotta give him that. This kid could have sold ice cubes to an Eskimo. He gave me a full demonstration and it just blew me away. He put on "Captain & Commander" and the cannon fire literally shook the entire room. The sound vibration goes right through your chair, your body everything. It's like being in the front row at the movies. I need it like a hole in the head, but now I can't get it out of my mind.

I don't worry that much about bubbles in head cement unless I am tying fully dressed salmon flies or speys, in which case I have a more traditional approach. I use an old handed down homemade recipe black laquer which I make by disolving one of old heavy 19/20s - 30s black laque 45 LPs in acitone. You can make it as thick as you desire. It drys to a beautiful hard perfect shiny black head. I have never had problems with bubbles in it.

An oldie but a goodie! "The Trout Fisherman's Bible" Dan Holland @ 1949-1962 Not so much about fly fishing, but more importantly Trout Behavior!

These are the same as the Scintilla air sac beads. I buy them at Michael's crafts 195 pc for $1. 65 Cad. They come in two sizes 3x6mm or 2x4mm. You can get them in clear or Pearlescent. The ones in the photo are the large 3x6mm pearl. They are deadly for Deep Sparkle Caddis Pupa and other caddis emerger patterns. John

I use a mix of very long lime green & white dyed bucktail. Try and find the longest you can. I usually end up going to three or four shops before I find the good long stuff. I separate a nice clump of each white and green,{about the size of a dime at the base} enough to make one leg. Leave them attached to the piece of pelt and cut the entire piece of pelt out. By leaving the little pieces of pelt attached it is much easire to work with and keep everything even. Lay one on-top of the other, Green on top of white, then tie two knots in opposite directions using a rug hook, so that the knee and foot will point in opposite right angles. One knot overhand at the knee, and one underhand about 1/2" from the tip end for the foot. Then when the leg is finished I take a surgical scalpel and remove the whole finished leg from the pieces of pelt so you get as much length as you can. Squeeze a drop of super glue inside each knot. For the second leg follow the same procedure, only this time remember to tie it white on-top of green or you will end up with two left feet and he won't be able to dance very well! :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:

Steeldrifter, looks great, but how do you keep the bugs out? I can't leave my stuff out like that. In no time it gets infested with moth larva and the little bastards eat right through those plastic bags! I had them so bad one time I could literally hear them munching when I sat down to tie. Not Kidding! Twice I had to microwave & quarinteen everything with a Vapona pest strip in rubbermaid containers. Now I Keep everything in drawers with mothballs. What do you do to keep them out when it's all hanging on the wall like that? Just curious???? John

Here is a link to a step by step tutorial. A very simple but effective fly. http://sfotf.com/main/Crystal_Bullet.72.0.html

I only trust my trophies to Tiemco!!!! Nuff said

Here's an extended body that floats like a cork! Take a piece of quill from the tip of a peacock tail plume, strip it clean, Cut two pieces double the length of your hook shank. Lay down a good base of thread so that it won't spin on you and tie one on each side of the hook shank and bind them together. Once you reach the bend in the hook you will have to switch hands and wrap counter clockwise. If you can't tie bassakwards just loosen off your vise and turn your hook around so the shank is facing back over the vise head. Once you have the two pieces of quill bound together the full length, Take a few barbs of Mallard flank or Wood duck and tie your tails in on-top of the quills. Take a small clump of elk hair, just enough to cover the quills. Starting at the tip of the abdomen, tie in the tips of the elk hair. Then fold the elk hair back over the quill body and wrap it covering the quill body entirely segmenting as you progress forward toward the thorax. I usually try for seven segments. Whip it and your extended body is finished. Now finish up your fly any way you want. Feather wing, Compara, Hair wing it's up to you. Dyed light olive deer hair for B.W.O Light brown deer hair for Hendrickson Light sand mature elk for Cahill Light tan or off white fawn elk for P.M.D.

Thanks. Like Steve said lots of electronics come packed in it. I have enough to last me till they plant me in the bone orchard!