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actually, i am tying something new up for spring pikin that i read about...

congrats birchy...short and to the point and you made me spill my beer...

that's giving the WSS crew down here WAAAAAAY too much credit...anytime i need something, they never have it and i have to wait 3-4 months to get it...it's brutal...

i give up...someone please tell me where i can find some waddington shanks in or around lethbridge...i can't find them anywhere...WSS has nothing (no surprise ) and Marksman's hasn't even heard of them...the closest thing i've found are some 1/16 and 3/4 cotter pins at canadian tire...i would use these, but i would rather use the shanks...any ideas where i might find these without ordering online?? clive? wes?

does this one go on your wall of shame too Dave?

that reminds me of when my grandpa told me how he used to fish for bulls...he used to tell me that he would go out into the barn and check all the live traps he set the night before and collect all the live mice in a shoebox...then he would take his spinning rod, the mice, and a couple of wooden shingles down to the creek (the Oldman)...he would find a deep pool and walk above it, hook a mouse through the butt, place the mouse on a shingle, and set the shingle afloat...then he would walk downstream and when the shingle entered the pool, he would tug the mouse off the board....use your imagination for the rest (the story gets pretty gory after this part)...

how did you guys know where i was gonna go with this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEpLI5exrU and my all time fave fishing song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSttoK3EFw

doesn't the French Maid seat 100 Dave?

my only suggestion would be not to crowd the eye of the hook but rather make a smooth tapered head towards the eye...other than that, nice ties bud...

on a side note with this contest, there is a great article on Czech nymphs in the winter '08 Fly Fishing & Tying Journal...

lmao...nice try toolman...

for the tail and ears, i just trimmed the hair off a zonker rabbit strip (and then use the dubbing for some tarantulas)...as for the razor, i usually use the double sided razors (for this, i cut the razor in half with some heavy duty tin snips, thus avoiding injury)...as well, the double sided razors are flexible so with some practice, you can bend the razor and do one smooth rounded shape rather than slowly wittling down the fly with scissors...personal preference i guess...on a side note, i store my razors in one of those magnetic paper clip holders for safety as well...i love using these mice patterns cuz they are easy to tie, and they work on the big trout (especially those that reside next to ranchlands and farms)...

hijack...here's one i tied last year using the "Bic Method"... on a side note, in my own experience, the tighter the pack, the easier it is to shape the body with a razor...

of course he's been working out...notice the forearm muscles in the second??? LMFAO

hydro: it was guito (Blair S.) who donated the Ice Dub dispenser which you so graciously gave to me...

i figured i would break my AESTIVATION on this lovely day and go check the mail for reading material...i was pleasantly surprised to see this mag HATCHing out of the box so i quickly grabbed it with my CLASPERS and went back inside to continue BURROWING into the couch when i came across this IMAGO... in all seriousness though, some good articles including the glossary of entomological terms (from which the rant above is derived )...jeremy davies does a good clip about cheating at the vise with synthetics as well as an aricle by paul smith on winter flies...check it out gang

happy birthday bud...hope you have a nice fireplace to spend it in front of...

In March, i tried something new...sort of a single elimination tournament pitting tiers from the board against each other to see who would come out on top...seeding was based on # of posts at the beginning of the tourney (out of the contestants, whomever had the most posts would take on the contestant with the least posts...was it any wonder Dave was seeded #1? ...this seeding continued throughout the tourney kind of like the NHL playoffs...) Here was the starting bracket for the tournament... and the second bracket... and the third bracket...(in this bracket, just because of the way the numbers worked out, there were three contestants with the top two flies moving on to the final round...) in the fourth bracket, it was myself vs. hydropsyche for the title and hydro destroyed my BWO with his beetle... i only have pics of my flies for the tourney, so if anyone else wants to post theirs (if they still have them), feel free... DBT's Entries Round #1 (Nymphs) Round #2 (Dry Flies) Round #3 (Streamers) Round #4 (Realism)

126barnes DougC Billy clyde ggp hydropsyche lethfisher LoneFisher LK maxwell

Gary (Brown Trout) Hook: Mustad 79580 sizes 2-6 or similiar Thread: Black monocord. On larger sizes use size A monocord Tail: Brown marabou..hook length Body: rough (loop) dubbed olive seal trimmed to a wide taper Wing: Brown marabou Collar: Dyed brown deer hair (top and sides only) Head: Stacked deer hair. Dyed olive on the bottom. Dyed Brown on top. Large browns are very predatory fish that will move from their shelters in the evening to attack sculpins and minnows in more open water. This fly is tied to create a large profile and displace a large amount of water. Especially important at night. Jeffo (Rainbow Trout) Hook: Mustad streamer (hook size as big or small as you want,this one is size 6 long) Tail: wood duck breast feathers Ribbing: gold mylar Body: green floss (any colour works, red, green, and black very common Thorax: Peacock herl with a wood duck breast feather beard Specifically for rainbows it works because it is a good imitator for damsel fly nymphs (as well leeches if you use darker colours). Like all flies, it can catch more than just rainbows, but our pothole lakes are full of damsel fly larvae (as well as rainbows) in the spring and early summer making it a essential for anyones fly box. BigBadBrent (Cutthroat Trout) Hook: Size 6-16, extended dry fly hook Tail - Golden-Brown elk or deer Rib - copper wire Abdomen- Yellow hairtron dubbing, with brownish red hackle palmered forward. Wing- Golden-Brown elk or deer. White puft of yarn right after wing for indicator, sadly the picture doesnt do it justice. Thorax - Orange Dubbing, palmered with Grizzly Hackle They work really well for cuttroat, big and small, as they imitate so many things, in different sizes and colors. They can imitate hoppers, stoneflies, caddis, salmonfly. And with that indicator post, they work wonders for dropping a nymph under. There are so many different ways of fishing stimulators, its unreal. A dead drift through slow moving water, or with a slight twitch. I've caught fish while doing an actual strip on the surface, and they hit HARD! Billy (Brook Trout) hook; mustad 79580 #6 head; 6/0 black with sally's hard-as-nails finish tail; green superfly deer belly hair, red floss body: beige colored yarn (borrowed from the wife's knitting basket) ribbing; silver tinsel overbody wing; green,black,white and red calf hair hackle: orange superfly deer belly hair underbody; lead wrap I have a brook trout minnow streamer that was given to me years ago by a friend that I use every fall on a northern lake. I toss the streamer against a bank with a big drop-off in a known spawning area ( At least they try to go through the motions) and the aggressive brookies hit it hard. I have to tie plenty when I go because the teeth just tear it to pieces after a few fish. maxwell (Lake Trout) hook-kerrystevens 2/0 10xl eyes-big dumbell eyes tail-white barred magnum rabbit strip and 2 marabout feathers wrapped body-wraped rabbit magnum rabbit strip collar-red crystal chenille back-golden variant magnum rabbit strip imitates cisco or baby whitefish wich lakers mostly eat i think. has lots of flash and movement too help attract the lunkers. has 4 layers of the thick lead too to get down deep... DavDev (Bull Trout) Hook: 34011 Mustad Stainless Steel 2/0 Body: Holographic silver tinsel ribbed with red holographic tinsel Underbelly: White fish hair Over body: Blue Krystal flash, Tricolor tinsel, Blue Yak hair Bubble Eyes. Whole head is epoxied, whole body is epoxied. Because bull trout are predatory fish, they target other fish species once they gain a certain size. Whitefish are common in waters that support bulls, hence, bulls tend to feed on smaller whites. Doug C (Golden Trout) Hook: Your Choice (TMC 2488 pictured) #18-#22 Thread: Black Body: Ultra wire - single color or combinations Head: Fine Peacock Herl Seeing as how they live in very harsh environments you'd think they would be pushovers and eat anything you throw at them but that is not usually the case. They are an extremely wary species and the takes are very soft and lightning quick - you really have to be on your game if you hope to do well. The Brassie does a good job of imitating many of the tiny organisms that make up the bulk of their diet and I think thats why it works so well. PrarieCreekFlyer (Rocky Mountain Whitefish) Hook Mustad C49S Caddis Curved 1x short Head Tungsten Bead Thread Dark Olive Tail Goose Biots(grey) Body Light Olive dubbing Rib UTC Vynl Olive Medium Thorax Black Diamond Dubbing Casing Lateral Scale under Stretch Flex Clear Legs Peackock wire tippet material I dont know why it would work specifically for whitefish other than they feed low in the water column and mostly on nymphs and other bugs that are low in the colum. And my fly is basically a recreation of a caddis larvae. Lone Fisher (Northern Pike) Hook- 1 or #2 with bend 1/3 of the hook back from the eye Thread- chartreusse underwing- white s-lon flash- pearl crystal flash topped with chartreusse crystal flash Overwing- Chartreuse s-lon weight- 1 strip of lead wire tied on the bottom of the hook. (actually the top but when hook rides point up its the bottom. Body- thread over lead Rib- gold tinsel and holographic green tinsel Body and rib- overwrapped with Larva lace stretched tight and coated with hard as nails. Eye- sparkle red comet nail polish Pupil- matt black poster paint (Can't really see that in the pics ) Head- Thread and eye coated with 2 layers of hard as nails. This fly has what it takes to be a great pike fly. It has size(approx 6inchs, 130mm), flash, action and the chartruesse colour is a very attractive pattern for pike at least on some days. lethfisher (Arctic Grayling) Hook: size 14 Tail: grizzle hackle bits Body: Base of layed out elk hair from tail covered with brown thread then wound 2 strands of elk around the body to create the ribs Hackle: Grizzly Hackle Wings: Griz hackle tips Seems that grayling aren't very hard to catch and will often go for an insecty looking dry fly. Also terrestrials during the summer months seemed to be a big chunk of their diet. I looked at a few forums and mosquito patterns seemed pretty common for this species.

drbulltrout Craig Billy bigbadbrent ggp lethfisher LoneFisher LK dryfly Prairie Creek Flyer

Craig Billy DavDev drbulltrout Silver Doctor ggp lethfisher LoneFisher LK PAD

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was doing some searching around and i found a bunch of the old contest pics from the FFA site...no recipes but i do got the pictures...ahh, the good ol' days when i had to fight people off from getting into the contests...lol anyways, i will put up all the old pics in their own topics for discussion/reference...