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I've got at least 6 packs of olive marabou and about 20 spools of black thread.... I have way too much stuff in my tying room.

Great fish, great scenes, great video!

That rocks. I love those sunfish (pumpkinseed you have there I think). I've never caught a largemouth, just lots of smallies. Thanks for posting your pics.

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Steelhead books I recommend are John Shewey "Steelhead Flies" and H. Kent Helvie "Steelhead fly tying guide". These 2 are awesome for the diffrent wing techniques, spey, dee, shrimp style flies. If you also want good reference for patterns with a bit more history, the Chris Mann books are great for this. The benchside books are great and should be in every tyers library IMHO. Schewey's books would be my top pick though.

Both nice looking flies. I would maybe switch up the dubbing on the trico to a quill or something synthetic. Looks like you used hare's ear dub on that and it may cause it to take on a bit extra water and sink quicker. Mind you, if you treat it with floatant, it should be cool. The post is a great feature. What size did you tie that trico in?

Great looking pics as always. really love this one

Looking good. you might want to take a pair of flat pliers and pinch the ends. A couple look like they could damage tippet. I've got a bunch of that wire, I might tie err wind a few up.

Nice shots. which camera are you using?

Ed is a great guy, so is Randy (Another advocate of Liquid Lace) I make a point of watching them tie up flies at the Calgary show every year. Randy does some incredible golden stones with the product. I use a 29 gauge needle for all my Liquid lace, and don't find it too messy. You do really need to fill them to get the best effect. Using tinsel and some markers, you can create some killer flies. A few years ago, we even did some experimenting with glow in the dark materials being injected into the lace. Lots of fun.

Awesome. Can't wait to do the same in a few years.

At least I don't have to get up to feed him.

Lots and lots of Chironomids and bloodworms. Dragon fly nymphs, leeches and a few scuds. A good book to tie from is Phil Rowley's Patterns for Stillwater. Lots of great Kamloops patterns inside.

About 50 bucks but I'm guess they were asking about 90

You could tie up some minkie's http://www.danica.com/flytier/mwestbeek/oostvoorne_minky.htm

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Congrats. It's fun going back to school when you are a bit older. You get to be the wise old man for a while.

Great Fish! Certainly one to tell the grand kids about in 40 years.

Sweet fish!

Have a good one dude!

Slits and ripples... That sounds a bit dirty.

I've done lots of pikin' from a tube, but mostly smaller ones, 20-30 inches. Larger than that can be tricky. I'm always scared they are gonna "jaws" me when they get over 40"

Cool! That's a nice looking rainbow.

Thanks for the great story Rick. I went out fishing this week with my father in law and he would have none of this sunscreen nonsense... It was +30 here and he now looks like a lobster.