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I agree with the horse! It ought to float until some mean old trout drags it under. It certainly looks buggy/fishy.

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q269/crockeryflytyer/flies/th_IMGP0637.jpg biot abdomen stonefly in small sizes works well

It's good to hear from you Char. I saw your name on an old post the other day and remember hoping that your disappearance from here meant that your life was just too full for spending a lot of time...

You just had to show them on sale for less than Brad paid, didn't you! Now he'll be sulking the rest of the day:).

Thanks John. I have tried Orvis waders in the past but they may have gotten better. I hope you get a few years out of them.

While synthetic yarns don't actually absorb water the dense set of closely aligned fibers tend to wick water up between them and hold it. When my strike indicators start riding low because of this I...

Thanks guys. Actually the inseam on all of my waders has been too long as I have a 28" inseam and size 9.5 feet. I buy to match the feet. I have wondered if the excess material is bunching up in...

Happy birthday Foo. I'm glad you survived spending so much of your youth with grumpy old fly fishers!

The worst thing about a guy like this is how he affects our reaction to others who may be really in need. I hated it when my first thought about Matt kemp's generosity to a dying young fan tonight...

good: a three to four pound bass on my six foot two weight and # 12 nymph tonight

bad: another pair of waders leaking in the crotch after only a couple of years of use. It looks like a I have a...

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If the strip of foam is tightly compressed either in tying it in or covering it with dubbing it will not add buoyancy. Do make sure that it is centered above the hook shank if it is not compressed...

One thing to try if you suspect micro drag is going to a longer and finer tippet. Combined with a reach cast or some other presentation to minimize drag. This has sometimes worked for me when trying...

It would be wrong to start jumping to conclusions based on one bad apple about everyone else. More importantly, generosity is never wasted. We get as much from trying to help others as we do from...

In reasonably shallow water I like big marabou muddlers on a floating line. The fly will dive on retrieve and return to the surface. For deeper water try lead eyed wooly buggers with rubber legs...

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I have lost a few nets and just for variety I have been known to sit on them too. There is no mistaking that cracking sound as the splinters puncture your waders just for good measure

Uncle Jesse, try aftershaft feathers from game birds. I lay one flat on top of the abdomen of my hex nymph before adding the shellback.

Byron, send your water truck to me. The horse pasture across the street has geese swimming in it and most of my back yard is under water. Better hurry though as the county drain is running full and...

Thanks Scott. I think I was typing as you were posting. I hope both flies will be productive in the right situations.

I suppose some of us may have found some more nonsense by now. This is the place for it.

A crappy hook hook is whatever brand the tyer feels is inferior, with or without testing. I think the only really crappy hooks I have gotten was a box of Mustad #18 9671's that weren't properly...

I walked by my vise and saw those two flies on that magnet this afternoon and thought that they represented two very different and conflicting attitudes. Can I reconcile them by fishing the emerger...

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One of these is just plain wrong

To make that fly a little more weedless you could tie it as a bend back. Take a pair of pliers and bend the front fourth of the shank down about ten degrees. It shouldn't show at all with that big...