Sandan

pleasure

+1 on what Kimo said

You're quite welcome, by no means am I a know it all but I ran into the same situation you are a while back. I tie my collar hackle perpendicularly most of the time also. Shiny side to the front. I just tied this for you to see how I do it.

Agree with flytire. Both, depends on what's being tied, water conditions, etc,., etc., etc.

If I may ask. when you tie in your hackle do you leave a "bit" of bare stem after tying it to the hook or post? If you haven't leave enough bare stem for approx 1 wrap, that should help get your hackle to lat vertically or horizontally depending on whether your tying a collar hackle or a parachute. Keep up the good work.

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Thank you Mike.

A few midges

I've been using a drop-shot or bounce nymphing. I like it. I like how Kelly Galloup hitches his dropper above a blood knot to stop the dropper from twitsing around the main leader. Also makes for much easier fly changes, especially after the dropper is too short for my fat fingers to tie a new fly onto.

Cool. I'm bummed I couldn't make it.

I think we have different definitions of "slide". I do agree that technique works

Whiskers from a hare's mask could work

Did you make it to West TU? Kimo No, unfortunately I didn't. You know how sh!t happens. Did you?

Playing with my new toy. Barred medium ginger

Now I have a growing itch to head on up to Charliesflybox and get a new saddle or cape.

Just playing around some with biots, CDC, turkey flats, etc. for the September trip to Henry's Fork.

Personally I'm a big fan of the frozen leader/tippet tangle in freezing (below 32F) when your fingers are too cold to work at even 40%.

Morgan's midge. 22s and 24s.

Interesting video for sure. I felt that groan right at the beginning. Tight lines!

bumping those killer caddis plastic bead containers and the resultant departure of beads to parts unknown.

x caddis, iris caddis, caddis cripple and some RS2s.

NP

Mark, I believe they are Tarcher style nymphs. The reasoning as far as I've been able to ascertain is that tying them in that style gives the fly "implied" movement. It makes the fly seem to wriggle or swim even though it's tied on a stationary hook. And yes, Kimo is an artist at the bench, as well as a really nice guy.

Henry's Fork hoppers size 12 No Hackle mahogany duns size 14, Swisher-Roberts style Shop Vac size 18 Some size 24 midges and a couple of black dace variant bucktails.

In some of our local Colorado tailwaters split shot will spook fish. You can see them shy away from shot during a drift. The solution(s) I've found via trial and error as well as advice is to either have the split shot about 18+" above your first fly or to weight/tungsten bead the fly to get it down. Personally i like tungsten beaded or weighted flies for getting the rough initial depth. Then Mojo mud to fine tune the depth. I've also found, in some of our local tailwaters that if you are going to bead the fly a shiny bead will spook fish, matte or natural finish beads are much more effective. Here in CO we can legally fish 3 flies. I like to have one of those flies weighted to achieve proper depth. The other two flies are usually unweighted for that "natural" drift. Jusy my $0.02