Wayne,
Talk about your clean and concise and absolutely beautiful set of flies before us! I want to go to the Wayne G. school of tying! Can you schedule me in sometime?
In a state of jaw drop,
Doug

Bill,
I am in love and in awe of your beautiful tyings! I can't get enough of this!
D.

Mike, Huge compliment and I really appreciate it! Really, I stand in the shadows (peering out) of the tall timbers that make up the Flymph Forum! I learn and try to retain (it's getting tougher all the time) the info that everyone has graced me with including yourself! Our sport is so richly blessed...

Mike, Well said about Alan P. He was a peach of a guy and a whiz at the vice not only with soft-hackles of all sorts but with feather wing streamers tied in the traditional way! Mounting two and sometimes four long hackles vertically on top of the hook shank is never as easy at the tying videos make...

Wayne,
Wow! Awesome looking pattern and an awesome looking trout! Thanks for sharing your swap pattern ahead of time and in the jaw of this beaut where it rightly belongs!
Dougsden

Pretty cool looking nymphs Wayne! They have just got to catch a trout! I love the contrasting copper colored strip on the back! That has to be a hot spot (trigger) to a watchful trout or salmon!
Great work friend! We wanna see more!
Dougsden

Hi guys!
Hackle pliars...Try Dorin Brand tear drop pliars! Very well engineered tool! Reasonably well finished too!
Dougsden

Bill,
As Ray would say....."This fly has pizzazz!" This is a killer pattern!
Great work friend!
Doug in the Den!

(This is what you'd say isn't it Ray?)

Rex, How nice it is to hear from you again! How have you been? Silk color is usually determined by the pattern you wish to create! I have been re-reading Skues and he talks about how important it is to have your silk "harmonize" with the fur that you are using to make the pre-spun bodies w...

Norm,
Elegance and simplistic beauty! A hallmark of your tying efforts and we cannot get enough of it! Thank you friend!
Doug