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Paul,
About the "Disgusting pile of rat's nest materials!" That's only in my nightmares, because I'm obsessed with being organized, so there are no days like "OH! NO! Where R my KEYS!!!!!!!" HMMMMMM!!!! Breathe!!! After being married my whole life, being single is like going on vacation and staying there!
The Partridge Hornberg is an interesting fly!! You did a good job tying it!
The Elk Hair Steelhead Skater is cool! It would be great fun to fish with it!
What breed of Dog is your new fishin' partner?
I have a couple flies I would like you to consider for future posts.
1. Bird's Stonefly
2. Bucktail Caddis (orange or yellow)
3. Adams Irresistible.
4. Gray Wulff.
5. No-Color Sidewinder
Source; Tying and Fishing the West's Best Dry Flies- Bob Wilson & Richard Parks. 1978
Only 20 min till Happy New year!!
Doug
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D-Doug;
Don't know, truthfully, if I have that much "tying" left in me!! Geesh!
The two, I posted, especially the Elk Skater, took me 2 morphine doses and an hour and half to get completed. I'll try, all I can promise!
My new "fish'in bud", is a Cairn Terrier, the breed of dog that Linda and I breed and sell.
She was just one of those "special pups, from a random litter, that caught my eye, for some reason", which sure doesn't happen very often with the litters we have!! Just "Sum'pin 'bout her"!?! The day I returned from getting my final test results, (12/23), she was the first pup to run up to me, even before the other, 3 "in-house dogs", we already have, so................. can't 'Splain it, just happened"!!??!
Anyway, this is her, (Sophie), in all her glory. One a face shot, the other a pic of what she does BEST........ when not hanging on my heels, or wanting to "help me" take pics and tie flies!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SOPHIE-A.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SOPHIE-B.jpg
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What a precious little Dog!! I should buy one from you! But my Dog days are past.
Thanks,
Doug
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What a darling!
Doug I can only strongly agree on that comment - she looks like a precious dog indeed that you have Flybinder.
I have always been told that if an animal singles you out - then that animal will always be the most faithful of companions in the world.
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I like OLD fly tying books as well as new ones - my sister bought me a book from a guy here who sells old books and it's from 1952; called 'Fly Dressers' Guide' by John Veniard and it has some fantastic old flies in it. who wrote your one? and what is it called? and how old is it? I'm salivating just thinking abou it. *dribble, dribble - hehehe*
Jeanne
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Hi, Jmeyerc!
Thanks; "Sophie" IS a great, little dog so far but still in the puppy training stage, at this point. She'll come around, in time, all Cairn Terriers do, they're extrememly smart dogs.
Linda and I have been breeding them for over 16 years now and this little girl just suddenly "caught my eye", out of a normal littler of 5 pups, so I decided to keep her for myself.
Anyway............ the flies I've tied and pictured above, aren't from books. They're from earlier issues fly tying and fly fishing magazine articles. (The Patridge Hornburg, is actually an old fly, but the tie I did is one I got from a spring 2007 issue of Fly Tyer Mag. I think it was.
Your Viniard book, is a real classic, hold onto to it!! You don't see it all that often, any more. John Viniard was also the man that co-invented the still available lines of "Viniard's Cellire Varnishes" and materials dyes, some of the best in the industry.