Sandan

Thank you Al and Gretchen. Peanut brittle is a definite plus!

SilverCreek, You beat me to it. The HFH is a fantastic hopper. Here's another SBS on this site, http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=69918

Real nice work. Thanks fshng2, right back atcha!

I use Firehole sticks quite a bit, they stick great. Fulling Mill hooks are pretty good also.

Some of what I've been doing this month so far.

All good ideas and choices so far. I've been using the Umpqua UPG boxes for "wets". I like 'em, they hold a bunch of flies, securely, and you can see through the lids.

looked amazingly fun

Unless you see a fish swimming in circles "I have two left feet, really. In high school they called me Loopy" or something like that. From one of the, I think, funniest movies ever, Best In Show.

It's turning into a constant battle... Last year we stopped a developer with connections on the city council from changing his residential lot into a high traffic commercial lot that would have allowed a two story hotel and bar with a music space to be built on the lot right behind our house, overlooking our backyard.... https://www.nola.com/politics/2018/02/frenchmen_rezoning_nadine_rams.html In my town, we just voted out 4 of 6 city councilpeople who voted for high density development after 75% of the population said they didn't want it.

Right on chugbug27. It's nice (read that as amazing) to fight city hall and win.

Thanks to flytire for the tubing extended body dun video. Another fly that could have just as well been posted to "what are you working on". Tied on a size 18 2487, olive brown micro tubing, olive gray CDC and moose hair tails.

KImo, I'm using mono. The Fly Tiers Benchside Reference spurred an, "aha why didn't I think of that moment". Leave the mono long and hold onto it while wrapping the thread, well duh. Thanks for that video, it's pretty cool. I'm going to give it a shot. Sandan, I do a extended body using tubing but I stuff a bundle colored boar's hair to create the tail. I trim all of the hairs sticking out of the tail except for 2 or 3. I crimp the tubing to get the segmentation. I also smear a light coating of UV Resin on the abdomen and hit it with the curing light as I hold it in a curved position. I then add a dot of UV resin at the point where the boar's hair emerges from the abdomen to separate the tails. Kimo Kimo, Thank you. I actually figured out the dot of resin to keep the tails separated. I was splitting them with the tag end of thread which made wrapping the mono even more difficult. I think I've seen yours, you stuff the hair into the tubing don't you?

KImo, I'm using mono. The Fly Tiers Benchside Reference spurred an, "aha why didn't I think of that moment". Leave the mono long and hold onto it while wrapping the thread, well duh. Thanks for that video, it's pretty cool. I'm going to give it a shot. [Edit: Thanks to flytire for the tubing video]

Take a look at pg. 209 in the "Fly Tiers Benchside Reference Guide". They have some very good instructions on how to tie that extended body. Kimo Will do. Thanks again Kimo.

An Iwane fun, extended body size 16. Could have also posted it in the what are you working on thread. The extended body gives me a real PITA. And fly tire, PBR for the win!

Thanks Kimo, I didn't know that.

https://www.anglersall.com/Hareline-Medallion-Sheeting https://store.flyfishfood.com/Medallion-Sheeting-p/medsh.htm https://www.avidmax.com/hareline-medallion-sheeting/

I missed that part of the post. The flys were what caught my eye. . BTW, you're knocking it out of the park. To add, I checked out your blog page(s). Great stuff, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Nice flytire, whatcha call 'em? Mercury brassies?

Cool, thanks.

fishingbob, If anyone should unfortunately drop out, then "I'm in!"

Very nice Lucian. Is that colored UV resin at the tip of the body?

Thank you sir!

Saturday's killers on the Colorado River. Charlie Cravens 2bit stone in black, Ray Charles in olive, D-rib Wally Wing caddis pupa from fly fish food and a spotlight Caddis. Tied in the day or two before Saturday.

tan, yellow, olive, black, gray, dark gray [edit]dun[/edit]. Whatever bug I'm trying to imitate. Tails, antennae, bodies (usually but not always, ribbed for nymphs, smooth for dries