DFoster

Really nice work guys!

To my eye that looks like an exceptional fish catcher. I think I'll add a few to my box. Nice work as always!

Thank you for the kind words. I love to tie and fish the classic UK and Catskill patterns. I prefer to fish soft hackles or winged wets whenever the conditions will allow. They caught trout a hundred years ago and they still work well when fished correctly.

Wow -that's a beauty! Here in New England the "fishable" days available are few in January. I look for temps at least in the high 30's and they have the coincide with a weekend day that I'm free. The sweet spot is from 11AM to 3PM as the sun warms things a bit and the fish become just a little more active. Even then the fishing is usually slow.

Great looking flies everyone! STARLING AND PURPLE HOOK: #14 WET THREAD: PEARSALLS SILK ABDOMEN/BODY: SILK HACKLE: STARLING STARLING AND OLIVE HOOK: #14 WET THREAD: PEARSALLS SILK ABDOMEN/BODY: SILK HACKLE: STARLING PARTRIDGE AND PEACOCK HOOK: #14 WET THREAD: #70 OLIVE TAG: OLIVE FLOSS ABDOMEN/BODY: PEACOCK HERL RIB: MEDIUM GOLD WIRE HACKLE: PARTRIDGE LACKIE SPECIAL HOOK: #12 CURVED NYMPH THREAD: 6/0 BROWN TAIL: WOOD DUCK ABDOMEN/BODY: LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING -TAN RIB: GOLD TINSEL WING: WOOD DUCK HACKLE: HEN BACK- DUN HEAD: S.H.H.A.N.

Thanks for the kind words guys!

Generic stonefly pattern- GOLDEN STONEFLY HOOK: #8 CURVED NYMPH THREAD: 6/0 UNDER BODY: .20 WIRE TAIL: GOOSE BIOTS ABDOMEN/BODY: UTC VINYL RIB WING CASE: YELLOW MOTTLED WITH U.V. RESIN THORAX: HARELINE DUBBING LEGS: RUBBER. HEAD: U.V.RESIN

Here's a terrestrial attractor pattern of mine that I've been trying different combinations with. I had pretty good success in the late summer and early fall with these. THE TINY MONSTER HOOK: #12 1XS 2XL NYMPH THREAD: BLACK 6/0 EYE: 25LB TRILENE MONO- GREEN MELTED UNDER BODY: HARELINE DUBBING 50/50 MIX OF LIGHT OLIVE AND DARK OLIVE ABDOMEN: OLIVE HEN, PALMERED AND CLIPPED RIB: ULRA WIRE- RED THORAX: HARELINE DUBBING: LIGHT BROWN LEGS: (6) GOLDEN PHEASANT TAIL FIBERS: NATURAL, KNOTTED HEAD: HARELINE DUBBING: LIGHT BROWN

So simple- why didn’t I think of it?

I see and good point about the collectors. There are European brands that are virtually unknown in the U.S., perhaps L&H is one of those?

Rick, my favorite time to tie flies is during a snowstorm. I can't offer a logical reason why but to me there's something a little bit magical about tying with a storm raging outside. Usually our 2 dogs sleep next to me or under my tying desk and I can smell both the wood stove and what my wife is cooking. (she always plans a nice meal in front of a storm). It just makes for a pleasant and relaxing time to tie flies.

I found this discussion about L&H on the classic forum- It mentions Gierach. http://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=157069

The restoration looks really nice, I'm happy for you. Your nets are works of art Byron- As a guy who is too lazy to hunt for tools, let me say peg board can be your friend.

Good for you Norm and enjoy! Here is my TV story- A few years back my wife got me a smart TV for our sunroom for Christmas. Our sunroom is essentially my man cave. We we're paying for 900 channels and between the two of us we watched like 8. I literally watched only the news, the History Channel and the World Fishing Network. I decided to stop watching any form of network News after their laughable coverage of Covid and the rest of 2020. I'm proud to say that these days I am network "journalist" free. Anyway my wife was HGTV, Cooking/Food Networks and few local networks. One day I received a notice that World Fishing Network was being removed as part of our package and replaced with the "Oprah Winfrey Movie network". Oh good, yeah that's a reasonable trade, I was thinking that I could use more emotional drama where men are to blame for everything wrong in the world. I mean while you guys are at it why not replace the History Channel with Lifetime or the soap network? It was time to cut the cord. We were paying $285 per month and we cancelled everything except for the internet. The local cable company made it a s painful as possible to do so but eventually we returned all our cable boxes and got our bill down to $85 a month. A Roku gives us access to youtube (the free ap) and from there we have more channels about the things my wife and I enjoy than we could possible watch. There are at least 2 other people in my office who are also doing the same thing. I'm sure cable providers are working hard, either through legislation or contracts to try to stop the bleeding but for right now this works for us.