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LasVegasBill

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  1. I've never fished this fly. But if the general question is "What fish do you catch on very small flies?" I catch loads of Rainbow and Brown trout on Western U.S. tailwaters on flies much smaller than this fly ( I regularly fish size 22 midge nymphs. I have talked with fishers who go smaller)
  2. The hobby can get a bit expensive. But......... at it's worst it still is cheaper than golf or wild women.
  3. I don't think I've ever tied a fly I'm 100% happy with.
  4. I grew up right near Camillus. Left to go to college and haven't been back for 50 years. Have fond memories of my first fly fishing in 9 mile creek.
  5. The most still water I fish is in high alpine lakes during the mid-summer. ( Wind River Wy.) My best fish come on green and orange scuds and balanced semiseal leeches in grey and olive. The other still water I fish is Hebgen Lake outside West Yellowstone. I take two weeks in the spring there every year. I fish Callibaetis nymphs and usually nail them.
  6. The most still water I fish is in high alpine lakes during the mid-summer. ( Wind River Wy.) My best fish come on green and orange scuds and balanced semiseal leeches in grey and olive. The other still water I fish is Hebgen Lake outside West Yellowstone. I take two weeks in the spring there every year. I fish Callibaetis nymphs and usually nail them.
  7. I'm going to tie some France Flies and would like some colors in addition to the original black. Those of you who tie this, what colors do you like?
  8. Do you fish this as a dropper on a larger fly? It looks like it would stay in the film.
  9. Really nice fly. I use a lot of Teeny nymphs and this looks like an upgrade. How do you fish this?
  10. No, just an old retired guy with more time than sense. In the long run it makes sense to have your flies organized by weight. It makes fly changes on the water faster and more precise and lets you catch more fish - and for me that's what it's all about. It's also really easy to identify what flies need to be retied to restock the box.
  11. Thanks for the reply. Very interesting. On small flies I've been going down on the number of strands rather than using shorter fibers. I'd never thought of using the thinner fibered tails in this manner. Always learning.
  12. IMO, it's important to be able to adjust nymph depth with weight. Many, many of my outings have been saved by fishing the same nymph a little shallower or deeper. I decided a number of years ago that I get a better drift without splitshot so all my weighted nymphs are weighted with lead wraps and tungsten beads. I use a Kingfisher fly box for my nymphs with 9 rows per page and 25 flies per row. (holds @1,000 flies) First page is unweighted/non-beaded flies used for droppers under terrestrials in shallower pools or runs. The remaining nymph pages are indexed for weight. I have a different section of each page for each different species of nymph I tie (1 section for caddis, 1 for mayfly, one for "the rest" being stonefly - squirmies, etc - , and one for midges) The Caddis and Mayfly nymphs are tied one style of fly per row. The heaviest/ largest to smallest/lightest left to right. All my caddis have four turns of lead and the weight is adjusted by size of tungsten bead. Mayfly is no lead and different size bead. ( I do this because I think the lead makes the Mayfly too thick. ) Easy to see the larger size beads vs. the smallest. I considered getting more anal with this and actually weighing each fly but you have to draw a line on your obsessions somewhere. I have several other boxes ( chironomid, streamer/leach , callibaetis , terrestrial, dry caddis, dry mayfly and softhackle) but none of these are weighted.
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