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Scale that bugger down to a size 18 and it would be deadly for the early black stonefly hatch!! 
Nicely done Dean.

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12 hours ago, Squeezy said:

Deer body hair.

 

On 3/2/2023 at 9:37 PM, Squeezy said:

Half batch for the swap

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Its nice and dark, tied with just the right amount of flare.  I like it.  

17 hours ago, cphubert said:

Squirrely Professor

Thats looks really good.  All I ever tie is his brother, the grizzly king, I should give those a shot.  

5 hours ago, sandflyx said:

mouse flys, pike flys

👍

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USA

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Red
Body - White
Hackle - Blue
Wing - Red, white, blue, married

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Phantom

Atlantic Salmon

Eric Baylis

Tag - X-small oval gold tinsel and fluorescent orange stretch nylon
Under body - Rear third: flat silver tinsel
Body - Rear third: yellow phentex yarn tied sparse to let silver tinsel show through; center butt of fluorescent orange stretch nylon; middle third: black ostrich herl; front third: chartreuse krystal flash
Wing - Black squirrel tail with a few strands of pink krystal flash
Hackle - Black
Head - Fluorescent orange

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

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Tarpon Bunny, Shrimp

Hook: Octopus, #2

Thread: Uni-Thread, 6/0, tan

Tail support: 20lb mono

Flash: FTD Northern Flash, Shiner Tan

Tail: UV2 Zonker strip, barred orange/tan

Collar: Zonker cross-cut, light brown

Eyes: Bead chain, medium, black

Head: UV Resin

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Hoping to get some fishing in when I'm home this time.  Tied a few more for attrition while in the hotel room.

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Couple wigglers

 

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BTW.  you can cram packing foam in the flex ones to make them suspend or float.  Also tie the flex stuff on a cork body.

 

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Trout Fin

Winged Wet Fly

Tag - White floss
Ribbing - White floss
Body - Orange floss
Hackle - Orange
Wing - Orange with 2 fibers of black and white married over the top

Reference

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

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Vance

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Light mottled turkey
Body - Gold tinsel
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Light mottled turkey
 

Reference

Trout - Ray Bergman
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

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On 3/4/2023 at 9:10 AM, niveker said:

Nice DF - get much snow out your way?

 

 

We ended up with about 6" BUT it was the really heavy wet stuff.  My 19 year old Troy Built blower just couldn't handle the strain and gave out.  It probably needs a belt along with a few other things.  I've been having to fix more and more issues with it each year. I'm trying to decide if I want to bother repairing it or buy a new Ariens for next year.

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7 hours ago, DFoster said:

We ended up with about 6" BUT it was the really heavy wet stuff.  My 19 year old Troy Built blower just couldn't handle the strain and gave out.  It probably needs a belt along with a few other things.  I've been having to fix more and more issues with it each year. I'm trying to decide if I want to bother repairing it or buy a new Ariens for next year.

A little off topic, but silicone spraying your discharge chute to the top of the thrower works much better for packy clumpy dense snow. Mine is now 21 years old and I live in the Hill towns where we get dumped on every year. I also have a spare set of belts for mine just in case. One can will last for years. It won't perform miracles like never getting plugged when doing the very end of the driveway where the snow is just mostly slush, but you should see a big difference. They even make stuff specifically for it like "Snow-Jet"  that I'm using for the first time this season. So far, it's every bit as good as the silicone spray worked.

Regards,

                    Mark

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8 hours ago, DFoster said:

6" BUT it was the really heavy wet stuff

we got about half that, but same consistency

51 minutes ago, mvendon said:

silicone spraying your discharge chute

great idea

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