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George, I use Chrome mostly to access the site because I'm on a work issued laptop. Nothing happens when I click any of the pre, 1,2,3, next tabs shown below. What I have to do in right click the tab and select "Open link in new window".

RHYACOPHILA CADDIS NYMPH-DAVIE McPHAIL VERSION HOOK: #12 LONG CURVED NYMPH THREAD: OLIVE 6/0 UNDER BODY: .015 WIRE TAIL: PARTRIGE FIBERS - GREEN ABDOMEN/BODY: HARELINE SHELL BACK, LIGHT GREEN OVER HARELINE DUBBING, DARK GREEN RIB: UTC ULTRA WIRE, SMALL, CHARTRUESE (DAVIE USES Chartreuse Tail litez or V-Rib) THORAX: HARELINE SHELL BACK, LIGHT GREEN, COLORED WITH BLACK MARKER OVER LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING, BLACK HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

Not Fluro but I do use mono for rib on occasion. With regards to pheasant tail wraps I just think they look better without a rib.

Thanks! shaped dry? Do you like the bright chartreuse green or a more subtle green?

If only more celebrities, sports icons and corporations could figure that out. I've never understood a business model that alienates up to 50% of your potential customers? That is exactly what happens when entities make public political comments.

I love winged wet fishing and Davy is the man! I learned a lot from his video "Wet Fly Ways"-

A really impressive page thus far Gents-

That's the funny thing about vises, as it turns out the "Best Vise in the World" is the one you like the best.

Same here- I'm also still getting that "Resource Limit Reached" screen on occasion (whatever that means).

That's a beautiful looking skin!

I call this unweighted Baetis nymph my "Red Baron". I do not rib these because the orange and black on the tail fibers give the body a really interesting look that a rib, even a small one seems to ruin. they're easy and fast to tie so I'm not really worried about long term durability. Orange/red seems to work locally especially late summer through the fall. THE RED BARON HOOK: #14 1XL NYMPH THREAD: RED #70 TAIL: PHEASANT TAIL ORANGE ABDOMEN/BODY: PHEASANT TAIL - ORANGE RIB: NONE WING CASE: HARE LINE SHELL BACK -RED WITH S.H. HARD AS NAILS THORAX: OSTRICH HERL- BLACK HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

BLACK AND ORANGE CADDIS NYMPH HOOK: #16 CURVED NYMPH THREAD: BLACK 8/0 ABDOMEN/BODY: HARE LINE SHELL BACK- CLEAR, OVER PHEASANT TAIL- ORANGE RIB: 4LB MONO THORAX: LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING- BLACK HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

GOLDEN STONEFLY HOOK: #16 LONG CURVED NYMPH THREAD: #70 LIGHT BROWN UNDER BODY: .15 WIRE TAIL: TURKEY BIOTS- TAN ABDOMEN/BODY: HARE LINE SHELL BACK- TAN, OVER LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING-GINGER RIB: GOLD WIRE- SMALL WING CASE: HARE LINE SHELL BACK- TAN THORAX: LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING-GINGER, TOP DARKEND WITH A BROWN MARKER LEGS: TURKEY BIOTS- TAN HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS GOLDEN STONEFLY – BIOT BODY HOOK: #16 2XL NYMPH THREAD: #70 LIGHT BROWN UNDER BODY: .15 WIRE TAIL: TURKEY BIOTS- TAN ABDOMEN/BODY: TURKEY BIOT -TAN, LOON UV WING CASE: HARE LINE SHELL BACK- TAN THORAX: LIFE CYCLE CADDIS DUBBING-GINGER, TOP DARKEND WITH A BROWN MARKER LEGS: TURKEY BIOTS- TAN HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

Nice work- that's a really interesting pattern-

Great looking body on that fly Chug, nicely done!

I'm not sure about the EKG, the regulations likely may have changed since the late 80's. I don't remember ever having an EKG during a flight physical. If I'm remembering correctly private pilots were required to pass a bi annual flight physical and Commercial pilots required an annual. Commercial pilots acting as pilot in command were every 6 months. Statistically if you don't get killed driving to airport private aviation is extremely safe. Most private pilots treat flying with the serious respect it demands. Still as with any of life pursuits there are those who grossly over estimate their abilities. My first flight instructor had a saying he made every one of the students memorize. "The superior pilot uses superior judgement to avoid getting into situations that require the use of superior skill". I never forgot that. I have applied it many, many times through out my life when contemplating any "do I really want to attempt this" type decisions. One situation that I witnessed involved a wealthy corporate owner who purchased very complex multi engine aircraft soon after passing his multi engine check ride. Technically he was certified to fly it but it this aircraft was not really designed for the weekend pilot. It was geared to the entry level corporate transport or a short distance scheduled airline. Eventually he got busy running his businesses and got away from flying for months. As in fly fishing, too much time between outings is a bad thing and will inevitably result in mistakes. Obviously the more complex the machine the more you need to be on your game. This aircraft was a joy to fly but when things go wrong even an experienced pilot can get overwhelmed real fast. This guy had the dough but not the experience level. Fly fishing teaches us humility and so does flying, if you don't get killed. So after not flying at all for about 6 months he showed up one day and decided to do a few touch and goes to get reacquainted with his airplane. Touch and goes are a training standard where the pilot takes off and flies a rectangle pattern around the runway, usually four 45 degree left hand turns and then touches down on the same runway he just took off of. Without stopping you reconfigure the aircraft for take off, push the throttles forward and take off again -repeat. After his first touch down he raised the wing flaps from the landing position to take off position and began his second take off roll. Unfortunately the right wing flap did not raise and remained in a full down position. Possibly the result of the aircraft setting unused- I don't know for sure. At the rotation point the resulting increased camber on the right wing created increased lift which caused the right wing to rise and the aircraft to want to roll to the left. He felt this immediately but incorrectly attributed the roll to a left engine failure. When you lose an engine often the prop will keep "wind milling" so it's not as easy as looking out the window to see which one isn't running. We're taught "dead rudder, dead engine" as a way of quickly identifying which engine is out. In any event he thought the left roll he was fighting was due to a dead left engine. He was fighting the left roll with applied right aileron. He no choice but to abort the take off by cutting the power and land on the runway he was taking off of. He made the mistake of cutting power to the right engine and leaving the throttle full on the left engine. The result was a yaw and roll to the right. The left engine was in reality still running at full power and combined with the application of right aileron caused the aircraft to suddenly cartwheel to the right. These events transpired over only a few seconds but a more seasoned pilot probably would have saved the airplane. All this happened within a few feet of the runway and at a relatively slow speed which is what allowed him to survive the crash. Not a scratch on him-

It's winter and I'm mostly tying to replace my 2021 casualties. I almost missed this classic! One fly remaining in the box would be a reminder but when they've all been wiped out it's to easy to fill the limited spots in my fly boxes with some untried replacement. GOLD RIBBED HARE’S EAR HOOK: #12 2XL THREAD: TAN #70 TAIL: HARE’S MASK GUARD HAIRS ABDOMEN: HARE’S MASK FINE UNDER COAT RIB: SMALL GOLD TINSEL WING CASE: TURKEY TAIL FIBERS WITH LOON UV THIN RESIN THORAX: MIX OF HARE’S MASK FINE UNDER COAT AND GUARD HAIRS HEAD: BRASS BEAD

Great looking fly sir. Getting the biots to stand at the same angle as the chenille is impressive.

They are simply tied in with waxed threat tight wrap. I used Semperfli fly tying wax for grip. There is a small bunch of long fibers at the rear of the thorax and another at the front of the thorax. If you look at the first photo closely you can see there is a slight gap in the long fibers at the middle of the thorax. The tying wax really tightens down hard on the slippery squirrel fur. I've been using Davie McPhails method of preparing the wax, which heats the rosin and makes it more tacky than straight off of the block. If you're not familiar with tying wax vs dubbing wax and McPhail's method, here are a couple of links- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF0tRNJpCQI&list=PL-x7IXRms3aXO5wQ1ab2yk2zi1otsswvD&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4N92G14Xg

I earned my private pilot license in 1986, later earning a commercial license multi-engine, land with instrument rating. I worked in the early 90's as a corporate pilot flying a Piper Arrow and a Piper Twin Comanche for a local company. Flying bug smashers to build enough flight hours to apply with one of the major airlines resulted in a personal revelation: I loath living out of hotel rooms. I do not have that "traveling bone" you hear about. So I left flying and went on to pursue a successful career in engineering. Now to be sure most of the pilots that I know, Including my brother in law who is a 777 captain with United, would live in a tent eating canned tuna everyday as long as someone paid them to fly. As it turned out I made the correct decision. I suffered a major heart attack at the relatively young age of 48 which would have ended my flying career in it's prime anyway. I survived because it happened a 15 minute ambulance ride from one of the best if not the best cardio hospitals in the world. Had I remained in a flight career I might have been on a trip when it happened I probably wouldn't be here today. 😲 A long time commercial pilot once said "When I was a boy I would look up at an airplane and wish I was flying. Now I look down at a river and wish I was fishing". I say "Rock the wings, I'll wave". 😊😊😊

EMERALD WATERS HOOK: #14 CURVED NYMPH THREAD: BLACK 6/0 HACKLE: BLACK HEN- TIED IN FACING FORWARD AND WRAPPED TOWARD THE BEND- WHIP FINNISH THORAX: GLOSS BLACK TUNGSTEN 2.8MM BEAD ABDOMEN: BLACK THREAD 6/0 -LOON UV RESIN, THIN RIB: UTC HOLAORAPHIC TINSEL- CHARTRUESE, GREEN

Really nice work all! GREEN SQUIRREL HOOK: #14 -#12 CURVED LONG NYMPH THREAD: #70 OLIVE UNDER BODY: OLIVE THREAD/.015 WIRE UNDER THORAX ABDOMEN: UTC VINYL RIB: MEDIUM CLEAR- APPLY GREEN PERMENANT MARKER ON THE FLAT UNDERSIDE. WING CASE: CLEAR STRETCH SHELL BACK THORAX: SQUIRREL TAIL – UNDER COAT, DYED GREEN LEGS: SQUIRREL TAIL, LONG DYED GREEN HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

Great looking fly!

Here in Mass each year the Fly Fishing Show is held at a facility about 500' walk from my office. I love attending mostly because it's a little taste of fly fishing in January and I usually haven't been on a stream since November. Tying flies to fill the holes in my boxes gets me through the dark of winter but after a while I really start to miss the water. Typically I cut out of work at noon and walk over with a list of materials that I need to restock or that are hard to find or that are best seen in person before purchase. Last year the show was cancelled as the facility was used for Covid testing AND this year it was rescheduled due to covid. I'll be travelling on the reschedule date. It's going to be a long winter- 😦

Snow doesn't bother me either but clearing snow.... that's another story- 😉