Wow that's a beauty!
What is this article that you speak of? And more importantly , how does one get to read it?
Jim

Only rule is to be nice to each other! Since our fore bearers were conservative iconoclasts in the realm of nymph fishing I do not see why we can't continue the tradition. Anything goes. Let's just keep it civil and clean.

Let's try out this new forum topic. It seems logical to me to include it.
Jim

In Honor of Skues and Leisenring and in to continue the theme of Pete Hidy's International Society of Fly Fishermen we now have a forum to discuss Nymphs.
What's your favorite nymph pattern ?

William,
I have tied size 20 thorax flymphs with the spun bodies. They were tied on the Daiichi 1550 hook, so no extra shank.. To help with bulk the tying thread was spiraled tying in the tail and body and back up.
Jim

Ray, The snow fall is pretty much typical but on the low side.....but we have another month to 2 months of snow yet. Typical we get 4 to 6 feet on the level ground and 8 to 12 feet on the drifts. I have a old International Harvester 1066 with a 8 foot wide bucket on the front and a 8 wide foot snow ...

Ray, At the moment you can't see half of the new shop addition, The snow is up to the roof. When the rest of the snow slides down the roof it will take about 2 to 3 hours to dig a trench to the front door. More snow last night and today. God only knows how much snow we have up there now. We were at ...

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Hi Ray,
Yes , they are pretty nice. A tad thin in the fiber , nothing that an extra wrap wouldn't cure. Very soft in fiber and stem. When you get down to size 16 - 18 the feather really isn't much different than Starling in terms of feather size and softness. The 4B stem is more pliable.
Jim

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