Mark Knapp

There is so much good looking trout food on here, there's no way a guy can try them all.

Wow, I am very sorry to hear that. Make the most of it, be with people you love.

No, that didn't happen to me. You must have different glue. I've been using EZ bond. It's what we sell in our store for knife making and it seems to work well for tying flies too. Like I said earlier, it melts some of the very small fibers but once it dries, everything is fine.

The bronze mallard you used on some of the last few flies is really nice Scott.

I think this one is your best to date. There's room to improve for sure, but we all can. I post long, boring videos too but here's the thing, if someone wants to skip over the less exciting parts they can by using the slidey thing. On the other hand, if someone did have a half hour to burn and you had cut out all the stuff, that person would be out of luck. They'd probably have to go back to doing something really boring, like they work they were supposed to be doing. I'm with Mike, you could trim it some but I too like to leave some of the "B" roll in.

And to you all.

Yes Doug that was me but I'm afraid you saw a rerun. That episode was from season four, three years ago, I think. It was a great time and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Thank you very much Doug and Tier.

And to you, Kimo. And to all my friends here on FTF Merry Christmas.

Thanks, Im glad you like the video. So I swore I said .015 sized. Ill go back and check, but Im almost positive said it right. Of course Ive been known to leave bloopers in accidentally, and this could very well be one of those times. Ok so you caught my blooper. Haha! I sometimes will get a little dyslexic and say things the wrong way. I checked the narrative I wrote, and I wrote .015, however I said 0.15 when reading it. Silly me, thanks for catching that. Unfortunately YouTube wont let me edit voice, so its stuck forever wrong. Luckily I wrote the right size in the description section of the video. So hopefully people dont get too confused No one would really think you were using 0.15 Dia. wire. I'm just picking at you. Besides, in the video you can clearly read .015 on the spool. I have lots of video mis-speeks on you tube. If we were all perfect, what would we talk about on the internet?

I found the video better than most I've seen. I like the tiers style of describing the tie very much. I like the version with the wire better, I would trade a longer tie for more time fishing any day. Because knit picking is what we do on the internet, I can't help mention that the lead wire is .015 not 0.15 as the tier said. (0.15 is a little over 1/8 of an inch) Great video anyway, thanks for posting. I'm going to adopt the wire version for my go-to.

I'm still tying the old classics from the Orvis Index. Giant Black Stone Fly Nymph Giant golden Stone Fly Nymph Olive Scud And then I tied something from my own imagination. A Pheasant, Goose Biot, Peacock Herl, Partridge Wet. Kimo, you're quite the nymph-maniac these days. They are first rate.

I've had the same thing happen. For me though, If I left everything alone, undisturbed, the glue and the fibers would harden back up and everything would be fine.

Thanks everybody for the props. You end up with sore hands after a marathon build like that. They were shipped in time, and my hands are feeling better. I'm guessing Mike would have chosen the blue handled ones. I can be accused of over dressing my knives at time as well as my flies. Being a custom knife maker, I have to make what my customers want. Overwhelmingly they want bling. Now, it's time for some ice fishing. Nice work Vicente

Thanks everybody for the props. You end up with sore hands after a marathon build like that. They were shipped in time, and my hands are feeling better. I'm guessing Mike would have chosen the blue handled ones. I can be accused of over dressing my knives at time as well as my flies. Being a custom knife maker, I have to make what my customers want. Overwhelmingly they want bling. Now, it's time for some ice fishing.

Thanks bud.

We took the order just after Christmas last year. We have been working on them all year (me and my apprentices). The same customer ordered 50 of my 1911 survival knives for Christmas last year and we are working on an a proposal for next Christmas of 50 slip joint folders. We, of course, worked on a lot of other things during the year too. It's hard to say exactly how much time we have in these knives alone, a few hundred, I'm sure.

This is what I've been up to. Fifty hunter/skinner sets. 100 knives total. My biggest single order to date. A customer of mine gives them to his customers for Christmas. I am sorry to hear some of you are depressed, especially you Steve, don't be sad. We love you.

James, next time you come over, bring the devise you're taking pictures with. We'll work on your picture taking a little bit. In my opinion, you should try to do everything you do, the very best you can do it. These pictures are not the best you can do.

Another nymph from the Orvis Index. Perla. This pattern calls for a blend of yellow and amber African goat fur for dubbing. For some reason I couldn't find my yellow and amber African Goat fur to blend so I substituted red fox and amber poly dubbing. Please excuse the departure from the original. Now that my pictures are getting better I have noticed a couple of things. One thing I noticed is, as the pictures get better the flies look worse. You can see every thread out of place and every wild feather fiber. Becoming a better photographer makes you a better tier. Too late, I noticed that the hook gap on this fly is probably too big for this fly. Maybe it will help keep smaller trout off of this one.

Yes, that's very nice. Meeshka

I'm back to tying from the Orvis Index of Fly Patterns. Early Black Stone Fly Nymph. Early Brown Stone Fly Nymph Little Yellow Stone Fly Nymph

Very nice Siski.

Ooh, now that one I really like, Scott

Yep, that's why I said I would leave the ID's to you. It's funny that the long ears have shorter ears than the red breast. That's the way it is sometimes with fish names.

Great looking stuff Kimo