Redietz, thank you for posting the picture for me! I will try to post a picture of another fly later and hopefully it will work. dd, I have a damaseal vise and was fortunate that someone get me that vise.

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Ray,

I should have included the link to his site. This is actually his new site:
https://www.rbmeiserflyfishing.com

You may have to cut and past this link to make it work. It has a great section on lines as well.

Ray, Thanks for the reply and both rods were made by a friend of mine in Oregon (Bob Meiser) and they are great rods to use for swinging soft hackle flies and flymphs. They allow you to cover a lot of water very efficiently and effectively. If anyone is looking to build a light 2/3 wt switch rod, An...

This is a very interesting post and I use to post on this forum regularly but life threw me a curve ball and I had to deal with that for a while. During that time, I have continued to fish and have always swung soft hackle/hackled flies and flymphs for trout and smallmouth bass. I started with a 10’...

William that is an excellent tie and thanks for sharing!

Damn Jeff! I am a veterinarian as well..............Shit fire!

Hey, now. I happen to live in the heart of Ginseng and Moonshine makers.

I almost could not sleep last night. I would be remiss if I did post a very close second place fly. Same pattern as size as above but I use Yellow Veevus thread that is well waxed.

This was a hard decision but my best fly last year was a #20 Purple and Partridge with a small amount of mole dubbing for the thorax. I mainly fished a tailwater river this year and this proved to be highly affective, especially fishing it in an upstream fashion.