Ray,
I love your photography and the really cool tying intructions! You tend to make a fellow clear off the tying table and start Dr. Lyte Palmers! You do an excellent job friend!
Dougsden

MD, Dang! That looks really nice! Were you able to produce a half doz. or even a doz. that all looked as good as this one? Practice, practice, practice.... It really is a gem and wait until you toss it out to your favorite local trouts or panfishes! Lookout!! Great job and isn't it alot of fun? Doug...

As promised (forgive my slowness), The Green Beasty! Hook: TMC #9300 in your choice of sizes. #10's are great, #12's are just right, #14's are getting smaller but it's still nice to have a half dozen on reserve just in case everyone starts getting a litte finicky, and #16's are just about out of sig...

Dubbn, I am glad to hear that you are mixing your own as it were with antron and muskrat! You just can't go wrong with that combination! This is how great patterns are born, or re-born, or developed. I am just pleased as punch that you are putting these materials together in such a neat way! I have ...

Continuing on..... Hackle: Bill S. and I have had some really good discussions on this subject. The best description I can give is his terminology....."progressive taper". Forgive me Bill if I have misquoted you on this. If you pull off a feather from a #1 grade hen cape, you will see that...

Good morning Ladies and Gents, First off, Wayne.....Excellent looking flymph that you posted! I esp. like the way you handle dubbing and shape the body of your patterns. I had a great conversation recently with our pal Bill (tie2fish) about setting out (me) to try and solidify each step and procedur...

Dubbn, Wow! I like it! There is something about the color gray in the body of a flymph topped with either a very near gray or grayish-blue hen hackle! It really "kills well" (as our pals in Britain say....or used to say) on my local yocals. I can't think of any insect (with the exception o...

Good morning all! Our pal Bill let me know that there has been a minor stirr about the flymphs he posted for me! Thank you each and everyone for the fine compliments! And thank you Bill for being a great photographer and a real friend (more than I deserve)! The receipes will have to wait for a day o...

Dear MD,
Great looking pattern! Keep on going friend! There are alot of patterns out there to immitate and create yourself also!
DD (Dougsden)

Ladies and Gents, If I could be a Tenkara boob instead of a Tenkara bum.....with the hackle swept forward over the eye, does it gently sweep back over the body (toward the bend of the hook) during a dunking in your favorite moving waters? I understand that the method of fishing these beauties is rat...