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?
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.
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
Hhhhmmm…I hope my surgeon never gets that affliction :shock: :shock: :shock:
Good…I’m not the only one with this problem. :o 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.
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!
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. 8)
Jack,
The Title of your Post says it ALL!!! :lol: 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!) :shock:
Doug 
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
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! 
Happens too many times. I try another pattern or just quit.
Rick
Mr. Hise,
I have been tying flies for about 2 years and tie flies for four gentlemen that can not tie for themselves. I came upon a fly ?Adams? that I needed to tie for a trip to North Port MI. and was totally frustrated tying this fly. I read and re-read the recipe and tried and tried and oddly was still having fun with my new hobby.
Then started to watch the 3 videos I had and then went to the library and looked and found some more to watch. None of the videos had the ?Adams? but I watched and enjoyed the demonstrations. I found that after watching for a while I wanted to try again and POOF there was an ?Adams?.
Respectfully,
Sean
Jack, I unfortunately cannot loose something I never had.
Jack,
Join the “Club”… some days everything works great, other days I can’t tie my shoes.
Bill
Warren, I recently read an article on-line from the UK in which they were tying those rings into their flies to attach droppers. I have actually been thinking about trying it out. I am afraid that I tend to do things rather more simply, such as leaving a generous length of tippet material after tying on the first fly and then doing a triple surgeons loop to attach a piece of lighter tippet and knotting my dropper to the end of that. But I can see advantages of the other method.
Ed
Ed,
Have you ever tried attaching a section of tippet to the bend of the first fly and then attaching a second fly to the added tippet?? It works good!
Doug
Nah. That’s just too normal. :shock: Everybody does it that way. 8)
Ed
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Nah. That’s just too normal. :shock: Everybody does it that way. 8)
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Ed,
Your Correct! I forgot you were a very complex person who enjoys complicated things and for sure I’m not being very respectful of the fish’s intelligence.
Sorry,
Doug