Merry Christmas, Norm!

I still have a pile of Pearsall's, but I don't use it much these days. I gave all my purple Pearsall's to Dana; good riddance. Purple is the color of ee' vil. Alan (BrkTrt) sent a few spools of Kimono to me when he first started using it. The availability is excellent and the colors, to my eye, are ...

I'm getting old, and my vision is really starting to suck. I'm tired of stabbing myself with the needle. Oh, and I'm lazy. I use a loop.

Sweet! It's a Nine three with an attitude.

Carrie Stevens would approve. Beautiful job as ever, Norm.

What a great name! At first, my initial reaction was of something conjured up by Marco Pierre White. The second was that it would be a great name for a Spanish Boy-band. Your fly is tapas for trout.

I would fish them both! Keep going!

Fishnkilts wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:16 am Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

...which reminds me of something my grandmother used to say when a thunderstorm was coming. She'd step out onto the porch, look up at the sky and say, "Yup, blacker'n than the inside of a cow".

You can never have too many books. Thankfully, my wife is completely supportive of my book buying habits. She only gets a little irritable when I start looking around at fly rods or vintage rifles. I haven't reached the point where I'm ready to purge the flotsam and jetsam of my fishing/hunting addi...

Very nice! This reminds me so much of BrkTrt (Alan Petrucci). Alan was a huge believer in the kebari mysticism. I have a couple of Alan's kebari creations, though I doubt I'll ever fish them now. Keep going with this theme!