Not to beat this thread to death, but he can still really crank out tons of fly's. The last time that I was in his shop a couple of years ago, he was tieing copper beadhead "Picket Finns". I didn't see any Usuals in his fly boxes and he said he'd tie up some for me while I waited. He just instantly switched gears and tied three each in size 12 and 14 in a matter of minutes. I bought two fist fulls of some of his just dyed orange Austrailian possum that had just dried. He told me that between tied fly's and what he sells, that he goes through about 16 pounds of it a year! I keep all of the flies tied by him in film containers in the cubby holes on my tying bench just to use as models. There's a lot of fly's that he ties that he's not famous for, but he has that will catch just tons of fish.

Regards,

Mark