:lol: , you're funny. Next time I go the 60 miles to Las Cruces, I'll try to locate a sewing shop. If there isn't one there I'll wait till I drive the 160 miles to Albuquerque. Lots of folks forget I have to travel quit a ways to get to "Nowhere" let alone "Somewhere" and gettin...

Nicely done! Never enough of those in the box!
FliTrap

Tie One On....

Oh, and by the way.... I found that by putting a bit of off-set (turning the point out to the side, just a few degrees!) into the "Lightning Strike Scud/Emerger Hooks", it increased the hook-up rate! (an old trick from catfish rigging.....) It would also maybe cause a bit more flutter to t...

Simply stunning results! All the way around, that fly will fish in so many ways! Easy to tweak with color changes to cover a range of critters! As I studied your pics, one came to mind! Wondering if tied the same pattern, tied on DAIICHI 1270 curved nymph streamer (a few light wraps of lead in the t...

"I have heard John Shaner and others note the reason for the dozens of seemingly pointless patterns, just rearranged combinations of materials to the point of silliness, was simply for the sake of feeding a growing market and a demand for new flies. I would be interested to hear more about tha...

Yep!!! Them there flies would smack the Crappie right out of the Crappies, come early spring, right around these parts! Might do good Ice Fishing, just as well!.

To then this is a Scott P's twist on the Skip Morris' version of Don Earnest's dragonfly imitation of God's great creation? :lol: :? :shock: Fine job of getting it o the hook! I'm sure its a smidgen better then I'm spinning around here! Grand showing, Mr. Scott P. Should have no problems getting you...

Roadkill wrote:

Not what you had in mind Ray

Hmmmmm.... Could be just "unfinished"... put it back in the vise and throw some big hackle to it!

Yep... the true secret is out!!!! I use to fish with a guy "way older then me..." back many years ago. He would always carry a box of fresh ties... "all the bells and whistles.... flies". He woulds stand there on the stream.... take out one of those flies.... hold it up for the l...

Thanks for the encouragement, Ron E.E.! Yes.... Had to stop efforts and stand up to laugh a few times at the tying desk, last evening! There was no clear texture in looking at small flies.... details blurring together, proportions out of sink and even colors were off! I went on to step up fly sizes,...