Sorry to hear of your problem, Martin. Can you remember what you were tying before each of these incidents? This may help you narrow the list of materials you have to be concerned about. I would think the natural materials (bird skins, furs) would be more likely to be the problem. Depending where th...

Have you gotta name for this (i.e. - are you working on a theme) or are you going to name it when it is finished?

Mark - How did you make out today? Did you get the result back from the doctor?

Ray

Another masterpiece, Carl. Superb...

PS - I have been loving the Eastern Oregon Partridge you sent me earlier this year. Thank you. Did the feather for this fly come off the same bird? Beautiful mottling.

Rasevic - I love your flies! They look like they would be extremely effective. Please keep posting these beautiful flies.

International Brotherhood of the Flymph Swaps - Shortcut links to each of the swaps hosted on this site IBF Swap 39 - March Brown (Feb 2023): https://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10907 IBF Swap 38 - Secret Santa Swap (Dec 2022): https://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10818 IBF Sw...

Kelly - It took me a little digging, but I managed to find the link containing the recipe for Hans' fly. I swore the recipe was on the toe-tag of Hans' swap fly. Unfortunately, after searching thru all my old sets, and finding the actual fly, the toe tag did not have the recipe. EXCERPT TAKEN FROM H...

Hank - I use closely touching turns for steps three and four. In step six, I use open wraps to form the body segmentation. I have gone back and modified the tying instructions in hopes that it is a bit clearer.

I have searched thru our previous posts to find earlier discussions about fly photography. If figured it would be helpful to have this information in a one-spot-stop reference. There is a LOT helpful information contained in the links below, in addition to Karsten's great article: Tips on Digital Ph...

I bumped this thread to remind myself to fix the missing pics in the initial post (done) and add this to the tutorials (done).