Sandan

That's a great looking piece. Nice work Steve

Yeeeehah Mark, Go git 'em!

I can vouch for that

just saw this. That's CO for you

Thankl you sir

Thank you George. I'm hoping the red quills come off next week so I can give that guy a shot.

After tying a bunch of red quill parachutes I had to give Catskill style a shot. Hook: fulling mill 5050 dry fly, size 16 Thread: Uni 8/0 rusty brown. Wing: lemon wood duck flank Tail: Medium dun fibbets Abdomen: stripped red quill. Hackle: whiting bronze cree. Thorax: rusty brown trout hunter pro.

Glad you asked I was wondering too

You have way too much time on your hands Norm. 😉

Being a lefty does have some downsides for sure. I use Dr. Slick razor scissors. I tie with 'em in hand. bottom loop on my ring finger, tension nut towards to back of my hand. They work great, comfortable and don't cut into my fingers like "regular" scissors do. I've tried a bunch of different kinds of scissors. Too many have loops that are either too small to tie in hand or just don't fit me. I've found the Dr. Slicks, all of 'em, have loops big enough to tie in hand. I highly recommend the razors. I usually use the 3.5" ones but the 4" are almost just as good. The 5" model is good too. I use those mostly to trim material long dubbing loops so I can trim with only one cut.

Vest for me. Advil before and after fishing. I tried a sling pack. Maybe because I wasn't used to it like I am my vest it was a real pain. Slinging it around and back, getting to an replacing my net, access to tippet wasn't bad once slung but cutting it with my nippers left me with too much dangling off the spool that had to be rewound. And not enough room for the approximately 1,000,000 flies I definitely need to have. The sling is a Simms Freestone. Maybe it's cause I'm, left handed. The vest is a Fishpond Wasatch Tech Pack. It's discontinued unfortunately. Oh well, my last one endured about 15 seasons or so. So much knowledge lost when I finally broke down and got a new one.

Beautiful!!!

And it's a beauty, sir.

Charlie Craven, Davey McPhail, Kelly Galloup, Fly Fish Food, Barry Ord Clark.

I had to look also. Lots better, IMHO, on the market for 6 bills. How would you attach a profile plate or a gallows tool(I don't use one but...)? Weld 'em on? I like that rube goldberg reference.

Excellent, sir

I was thinking the same thing when I posted it. It's pretty rare that I put up anything "big", over a 20 anyhow. Montana few weeks ago, you know you ask what's working etc. Most of the folks said it was the little stuff. Size 16s maybe an 18 if you had to go really small. My buddy and I just rolled our eyes and chuckled. When you know, let me know.

Yessir. You coming this way?

Size 12 green drake cripple. Quigley style. Hook: U001 standard dry fly Thread: UTC 70 olive Tail/abdomen: lt. olive marabou. Twisted to form the Abdomen. Thorax: olive rabbit dubbing Wing: premium select cow elk. Hackle: whiting bronze grizzly variant. Next time I'll hit it with an olive marker.

That Pink Lady is a real beauty. Shakey Bealy did me wonders at Barnes Hole #1 a few years ago.

Ditto

@chugbug27 for the win!

Depends. As Flytire said, presentation flies are tied "by the book". I find that a lot of times the by the book pattern gives me a jumping off point to modify for my own particular fishing situation(s). For instance, a light Cahill can be a fine PMD or PED imitation. In my neck of the woods PMDs have a much lighter wing than lemon wood duck and they also have a pinkish tinge to the abdomen/thorax. I'll use either light dun hackle tips or even a light dun McFlylon for wings and mix PMD/Hendrickson pink superfine if I'm going to dub the abdomen/thorax. Sometimes I'll use a PMD dyed stripped peacock herl or a PMD quill for the abdomen and the mixed dubbing for the thorax. Those changes make a fly that isn't a light Cahill any more. But, it's based on the lt. Cahill. I wouldn't necessarily call it a lt. Cahill variant, maybe a quill body PMD. On the other hand if I stuck to the original recipe and substituted the light ginger tail tail for lt. dun or PMD fibbets or lt. pardo CDL then I'd call it a lt. Cahill variant. Where does variant and new and different diverge? That's the 64,000 dollar question we each have our own answer to. IMHO.

It is the case

+1 on what Steeldrifter wrote