So sorry to hear this. She did so much for the fly fishing community at large and me specifically. I was fortunate enough to meet her, Jim and Neil on a couple of different occasions. Great people...
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So sorry to hear this. She did so much for the fly fishing community at large and me specifically. I was fortunate enough to meet her, Jim and Neil on a couple of different occasions. Great people...
I haven't been on any forums in some time and am saddened to hear about Deanna. She, Jim, and Neil gave me a great opportunity to tie some flies and do some articles here and I'm forever grateful.
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Thanks! Just what I needed.
Eric
I'm looking for a recipe or other insights into the Angora Mantis Shrimp pattern. I'm doing a Mexico flats trip this Winter and want to do some for the trip . I know how to do Veverka's Mantis and...
Beautiful work. Better than mine!
Eric
Very nice renditions Alberto. Terrific!
Unique and interesting approach. And the results look great. I'm with Byron though, I would find it easier to just leave the tag end long on the thread in the first place. Regardless, it seems as if...
I doubt that any of us who like the traditional aspects of fly fishing has much against synthetics, I use a foam ant all the time and it's very effective. After all, Ray Bergman used celluloid. Early...
I fished a special spot on the Mad here in Ohio. The only other guy I ever saw there loved the Fore and Aft in small sizes. He was a dry fly guy like me, and fished them almost exclusively. We had...
So "art is innovative by it's very definition". The world according to Buddy. Someone's going to have to break that to the Dutch Masters like Vermeer, who painted in that tired "realistic" tradition,...
Great looking fly and a fine tutorial.
This looks to me, with the exception of the cutting off of the tip of the feather, which I don't understand, to be the method that has been used for hundreds of years to make a partridge collar on a...
I liked this article very much. I've always viewed fly fishing as a sporting way to fish, and historically it was considered such. It is intended to be more difficult by design. It employs skills...
While that looks like copper wire in the photo, this one was tied correctly, with twisted Coats and Clark summer brown thread (#52 if memory serves). Nice rendition of a very useful midge imitation.
Another article from Neil that I can really relate to. I just fished the Pseudocleon Anoka hatch on the Mad here in Ohio, and they were 24s for sure. It's a very tough hatch to deal with, even if...
As usual Neil has nailed it. We all know there is no one fly that is a panacea, but still tend to rely on favorite styles to our detriment. Some guys love the parachute, comparadun, I had a brief...
For CDC flies, Frog's Fanny, and accept no substitutes. I've done that, and they were unusable. Other than that, I use Gink on hackled flies. I still miss the environmentally unsound floatant I used...
Really great looking fly Tom. No doubt in my mind how effective this one would be.
Eric
A trick I use with small soft hackles in the 20s, and I use them a lot, is not to use soft hackles. Just use Whiting dry fly saddle hackle, the hackle that comes in 100 packs, same size as the hook....
Normand, I've never really been able to successfully sharpen scissors until I got Dr. Slick's Razor scissors, made of stainless steel. I'm on year two now of the same pair, and I've never been able...
I've got volume three, and coincidentally, I'm in volume three. It's beautifully done. I've been toying with the idea of getting all five, and might just do it. I met a couple of guys at a show I...
Bill, the same thing happened to me. It's too bad, because I really liked the stuff (Yosemite?). I'd like to buy more if I knew where to start.
Eric
Apparently so, as my friends who watched my midge box float on by at Henry's Fork can attest. They were on one of the cliffs there, and saw a small green fly box float by. It had come off the zinger...
Neil, I really liked this article. It gets to the heart of what fly fishing, at its soul I believe, should be all about. It was meant to be a more sporting way to fish. "Sporting" is the operative...
Thanks Normand, but consider me unamazed. If it does surgery like it ties flies, I'll opt for the veterinarian. I always wondered why flies weren't manufactured. Now I know. If we could just teach it...