I lost it!!?? Have You??

[Jack Hise]

Recently I was tying some EHC for a swap. After 4 or 5 I lost the ability to tie in the wing!!?? These were size 16's, which I've tied before, with a deer hair wing. After trashing 3 I quit! Is it a form of writers block? I'm afraid to go back to the vise! I know that "if the horse throws you get back on" but I wonder!!?? I consider the Elk Hair or Deer Hair Caddis to be my best ties and suddenly I couldn't do it!
Has this ever happened to you and what did you do about it?

[TyroneFly]

I find when a technique that I onced thought I mastered has gone south on me, I try another technique. AC taught me that one.

[Joe Valencic]

Recently I was tying some EHC for a swap. After 4 or 5 I lost the ability to tie in the wing!!?? These were size 16's, which I've tied before, with a deer hair wing. After trashing 3 I quit! Is it a form of writers block? I'm afraid to go back to the vise! I know that "if the horse throws you get back on" but I wonder!!?? I consider the Elk Hair or Deer Hair Caddis to be my best ties and suddenly I couldn't do it!
Has this ever happened to you and what did you do about it?

Some days the parts don't all want to play together. When that happens I walk away from the task and do something entirely different before returning to it (and before I screw up anything else). I have experienced just what you described. It comes back in short order. Have a cocktail and don't worry about it.

Joe

[ducksterman]

Hhhhmmm...I hope my surgeon never gets that affliction

[Bugsy]

Good...I'm not the only one with this problem. Ditto what TyroneFly and Joe said.

I find that even with a good amount of tying experience and skills, tying is largely a mental game. When the mind isn't there, the results often show it.

[Bamboozle]

Bourbon and a Huckleberry Hound cartoon on the always on TV at my tying bench help me get straightened out when things go south.

Seriously!

[billknepp]

Jack,

My best tied flies result from one thing, Knowing when I sit down at the vise....That not a one of them is going to be for me!...Never fails...It's alway's the flies I either tie for swap's or for the guy's that are constantly asking me for certian pattern's....never those I know are for my own boxes....

I've learned to make the last half dozen extra's for myself though.

[DShock]

Jack,
The Title of your Post says it ALL!!!! I lose it on a regular basis and then forget where I put it!
My philosophy is "If Today is Bad, then Tomorrow will be Better!"
Your not going Crazy (Unless your already there!)
Doug

[Gig]

Hi

I have found that some nights I am not mean't to tie a thing, everything I do goes wrong. Its of no use to me being there, sitting in front of my tying bench so I give it the flick and not bother till next time. Then miraculously I can tie nearly anything.

Cheers

[WarrenP]

Jack,

Lately you have been giving most of your time and concentration to putting those tiny tippet rings on your furled leaders and I am concerned that you may be trying to put a tippet ring on your flies! If, so, that may be your problem!