You know, Norm, if you keep working at this fly tying thing you might just get good at it some day.

...that fly actually looks like a 'fly of prey', diving at speed towards and unsuspecting fish.

I can make this pattern work over on the Little Madawaska; consider it stolen.

That same spirit of generosity always came through in his emails and the notes he would send up. I never got to meet him in person; the closest thing was a phone call we shared a few years ago. I still wander back through his site all the time!

Doug, it would be an honor to take your ties to the waters of northern Maine. I had the great privilege of being a guinea pig for some of Alan Petrucci's ties (BrkTrt). He would tie something weird and send it up, asking me to give it a try on pure brookie water. Swinging your flies through the same...

Hi again Guys! Mike62 - Thanks Mike! Do you suppose some brookies or browns or 'bows in your neck of the Maine woods would appreciate them? Doug in the Den Well, I know the brookies would certainly appreciate them. As for those other two species you mentioned, the bows and the browns, they don't ex...

First I've seen of this one; I like it.

Racy! Beautiful, Norm.

Seal dubbing sucks! I like the Bergman version.

I would happily, gladly, gleefully, fish every one of those patterns.

I know Norm's pattern refers to General Joseph Hooker, but having just come from a thread where Doug uses the words 'love' and 'sassy' in the same sentence, my head went somewhere else. So, when Norm writes General Hooker, I saw general hooker; you know, as opposed to a specific hooker. Anyway. Nice...