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Awesome report Greg. Glad to see the trout bum gods smiled down upon you and sent some chrome your way.

The best colour of Diamond dub is the Bronze Olive. If you can find it, you'll really like it.

Stand further back and practice your aim at the same time. Really, that is cool and I'm putting it on my Christmas list.

I wonder how those taste? Looks like they are all meat.

Sounds likre they are defective bobbins. Are they the cheaper indian ones? I know they had some problems with production a while back and lots were recalled. tyeh used a ceramic that was too pourus and like you said, 2-3 wraps and the thread was toast. Take them back from where you bought them and get replacements.

I use cearmin for 6/0 and smaller and SS for larger threads, wools and such. My crappy bobbins get used for lead and wire.

Sweet catch Glen. I aspire to someday catch a lota lota on the fly.

Umm brag...why..... Here are the stats for week 2. You could probably guess who's at the top right now. lol Here is a look at the standings after 2 weeks. congrats Grevelman, your Toronto strategy seems to be working out well for you.

Lay the tag end of the fire line along the shank of hook you are tying it to. Use tight wraps of thread front to back lashing the fireline ends to the shank. You can add some extra durability by doubling back the tag end and tying it down.

Nice looking bows.

Hey Mitch Take a length of fireline and fold it in half. Thread the fold through the eye of the hook from the bottom of the eye. you will now have a loop. pull the loop over the bend of the hook and then take out the slack. The fireline should hold the hook at the eye. Tie on the loose end of the fireline onto anoth hook. I ussually tie the stinger point up so that you have one down one up. I hope that makes sense to you.

When I first started tying, I did keep a binder of patterns I picked up. I would draw the fly list the materials and add tying instructions... That got old fast. It was a lot of work. When i need to keep a pattern now, I tie up a prototype and put it into a piece of foam I have on the wall to keep track of patterns. I label them with a name and when I need to reference them, i just pull it out. For patterns I don't use much, the flysource program is great at keeping track of them. BTW, you can swap the .fly files on here and on flyangler.ca. That and all the databases on line can give me pretty much anything I need. One other book to consider having is the compendium of canadian fly patterns. It have a massive collection of patterns inside.

8'6" 6wt Fenwick

Sweet dude. It's one more than I've landed on a two hander.

Nice Shots. Babine Bears, sounds like a good name for a pattern...

Gratz on the first Fly caught Bowbow

Cool find Dave. Looks like a tusk or something.

That is a great pattern and tecnique. I have some multi coloured beads that would work well for this sort of thing. Thanks for sharing.

Here are the results for week 1 - I can't belive I'm dead last Good luck in week 2.

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Wow, that went cheap.... Have you seen the NEW titanuim reels?

The performace upgrade.

Linux enters the ring....

Ouch. I hear CCM makes a nice helmet.

Ok, Last call for anyone wanting to take part in the pool. If you want to join, send me your picks today sept 30th. Poolies, you will need to have your picks to me by the end of today. Good Luck all.