Dougsden, I have often thought about you, I trophy hunted(20 yrs) White tail deer just a few miles south of you .I used to get my arrows swedged in Sardis Small World John

I can"t even dream of 100 fish a day, if you ever want to come back down to Earth,come fish with me. Thanks for the advice ,maybe I can do better next year. Best John

Hi All I guess I'm most like DOUGSDEN, I just learned to change photos to 24 bit, so I can post them to Microsoft program, so I will be able to post hook type and materials. To let you in on reason for post, I could not find the right hook for a certain pattern. Regards John

How do you fellas organize your patterns,. with the hundreds of patterns I have and as I tend to get older. I think it"S time to get patterns organized into some kind of order,for future tying sessions. So far I am able to remember the major components but things like thread types and ribbing a...

Ya know I must have 10 different hackle players, and I seam to use one or two .I never could get them to hold feather very well, thanks for the two good ideas. Ive been playing with a idea using a dubbing brush maker and having some very good effects with technique I will take some pictures and post...

I think I will bump this up, I'm sure with the really good tiers, their are many more tricks out their. I have one I use for keeping thread from falling through bobbin. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/Caddisman1/Tying%20Accessories/PC030018.jpg I tie a small piece of plastic as a thread holde...

I breath there-for I fish.

John
Good topic.

Thanks for the replies. Mark I have that book by Lawrence R Koller and some how I missed that information in the book ,I will reread and see if I can dig information out of book.I think you talked about the book on another web site so I orders a copy used. I have done well with my tying sense we las...

Mike had a wonderful artificial on fly manipulation. My question is ,do you use a certian technique that you personalty use, that you would like to share. The method that I use is the down and across ,with frequent mends but has something to be desired. I have so many questions about sinking lines o...

I followed a link on Mikes post and saw cream Peacock , Does anybody know if the cream color is still iridescent.?

John