Sandan

Not bad at all. I've heard it said that elk/ deer hair wings with broken tips are a turn off for the fish. Just kidding. It's hard to tell from the picture but it looks like there's some wild hackle towards the bend. How far back did you tie it in? Before the bend, at the bend or further back? The only other critique I'd add is that I like how you wrapped through the head, but either too many wraps or cord the thread up or make sure those wraps are one on top of the other. IMHO, 2 wraps through the head are plenty. Then whip finish in front of the head. I'm thinking that you might have whipped on those through wraps. Anyhow free advice is worth what you pay for it.

Norm, that is a beauty. As always. Since I put an Atherton #3 up on the challenge thread I figured I'd tie one too. Hook: TMC 100 size 14 Thread: Pearsall's lt yellow silk Tail: med pardo CDL. Body: blended Semperfli sparkle dubbing seal and semperfli seal sub yellow. Rib: UTC small oval gold French tinsel Wing: Lemon wood duck flank feather. Hackle: one each Whiting pro, natural dun and dark barred ginger.

Couple of midge patterns. Both on 24. Ones a 2487 and the other is a 2488. A Rick Takahashi biot midge pupa. That's the one with the glamour madeira gills and biot wing buds. Body is .05mm stretch magic. The other one is a Hopper Juan pattern. The money midge. Veevus 16/0 brown, brown slim rib, head is thread colored black with a sharpie.

Thank you, sir.

Keep up the stellar work Nick!

Some 16 IOBO Humpy. Hook: Fulling mill 5050 size 16 Thread: UTC 70d Gray brown Body and wing: Trouthunter caddis tan CDC When palmering the thread from the bend to the eye binding down the body, I used some trouthunter light gray CDC dubbing instead of bare thread. Next up is Atherton's #3 tied dry.

I'll take it.

Rick Takahashi's high post midge. Hook: Tiemco 2488 size 24 Thread: Veevus black 16/0 Tail: black Krystal flash Body: thread Post: black Anthony Hackle: whiting pro cape grade grizzly variant. Hackle trimmed to hook gape to ride low in the water.

Howdy Kelly. Enjoy your time here. Done forget to participate via comments and photos.

Please don't mention it.

Oh man that is sweet. Makes a real PITA task easy!

Hey Moshup, long time. Hope all is good with you and yours. Hmmmmm. Resolutions which I'm not a big fan of. Tie more, fish more. Complain less. Search out new patterns and continually tweak patters that work to work better. Of course that means I have to know when to stop tweaking. Oh well, I figure 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

I fished the Unc below Ridgeway a couple of days late last spring. It's good for sure. Glad the advice on the SP helped. Next time you're in that neighborhood give mea holler.

My pleasure. The Uncompaghre river is close to the Dolores and it's really good below ridgeway

Great start to the year so far. Tak's Twinkle Brown Pupa Hook: Tiemco 2487 sz.24 Thread: Veevus 16/0 brown Body:Sulky Holoshimmer. Color: 6080 Thorax: Thread, UV resin coated Flash: pearl Krystal flash One has sulky holoshimmer 6018.