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I for one do not think these will work at all, after all some dirty canadain named dave tied them, lol, j/k Dave always did like your ties, still waiting on my FLAMES fly in a shadow box for way back when I was knee high to a turttle.

Shhhhhhhh your letting out my secerts........... By the way that head looks like a permit, even though I realize it is not, it reminds me of a permit.

My god the head the most ugliest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Happy Birthday dude.

All I do is tie rabbit strip leeches (Just the wrap of the rabbit strip - magnum strips works the best but can use the zonker strips) I also tie them on a #2 streamer hook and lead wrap it. Even though I haven't caught a big bully yet I do fish with people that have and am told to use the following colors, white, black, and peach. I have tied some purple, green, yellow, and orange. Hope that helps out some, when I get home from work I'll post some photo's.

Other then BassPro I cant see anywhere beeing cheeper other then buying online. Personally I pick up 90% of my stuff from Fish Tales and find their prices about the same as any other place. I do find that if I pick up someting from WSS or BPS I tend to get more damage feathers and what not. I do not think this is WSS or BPS fault but more to do with buying in bulk and shipping. When I first started buying material I didn't really look at what I was buying but instead just grabbed, this changed after getting a couple of crap packages of phesant tail, now I check everything, short of opening up the package, and usally do not get any bad material. But if cheeper prices are what you are looking for then I would say go online, I hear you can find really good prices, me personally, my next door neibour hunts so there are some feathers I don't pay for anymore.

Sweet ties dude. Personally I have only been ting for 2 years, so haven't tied any extended bodies myself but very intresting.....

Happy Birthday old man..........

Hey brain, you said for a smooth and consitance cast to use a shotgun lift, why not a cresent lift?

Spoken like a true eskimo fan.... Anyways it should be a good game not as good if it was Calgary vs Edmonton, that would of made a great Hertigae classic game.

Tied these up this morning.......

Here is what I have been tying lately...

Where are all the haters, it seems that since the flames have been playing extremly well after the break everyone is quite or is are they eatting crow?

If I get some time tonight I will take some photo's of the bunny strip leeches I have been ting this week. Also planning on ting up a bunch of Peacock leeches also tonight. Will post when I get some photo's tonight. Anyone got a good cdc caddis instructions since I have never used cdc before and need some help with it. Also I got some ting patterns for some klinickhammers but they are not that good, anyone got some instructions I could have to help me out.

Fishinghogdaddy: Okay I know I am going to get famed for this but here is what I would of done. As soon as the guy laied his hands on me I would of introduced him to five of my knuckles, I know violence doesn;t solve things but sometimes it is the only thing that is left espically when you aare backed into a cornor. Otherwise hopefully you got his licence plate # and call the police for the following reasons. 1. It is illegal to talk on your phone while you are a drive in a vechile 2. Reckless driving (Slamming on Breaks) 3. Assualt As for driving slowly there really isn't much you can do in a 50 zone as that is posted speed limit under ideal conditions, since there could be ice on the road he can always say he was unsure, which we all know is bullshit. What you need now is a nice brown on the end of your line about lets say 20 +++ inches. Just remeber that good things come to good people, sometimes it does not feel like that but it does happen.

Now I work in a big box retail store and have been doing this gig for almost 10 years now and I can come up with alot of reasons why the one guy in the fly fishing section disappeared (I am guessing short on staff and was on break - there should still be someone there to deter people from theft or to help out a customer) For the people in the Customer Service Section that was just disgusting, and there is absoultly no reason why this should of happened also the fact that the cashirer did not say anything was also disgusting, as I train my staff and alot of other people at the store I work at is the following. "Remove the paycheaque cause no one comes to work to not get paied, well maybe some people, but what is the reason to working in a retail store? It is to provide a service for someone." These cashiers or whoever they were could not even accoplish a fundamental concept as Service for customers and someone should complain to manager, gm or District or corprate head office, cause these things have to be fixed or there will always be problems. I do not like to styrotype but what I have seen over the last couple of years is that the younger generation just doesn't care anymore, I leave work sometimes wanting to bash my head into a brick wall because people just can't uderstand what Customer Service really is. Customer Service as I see it is making sure your customers have been talked to or at least knowladged that they are there and will be with them as soon as possible. Then you must be paitence and help the customer out to the best of your ability, if you can not help them out get someone that can, this is the key to customer service. I once went into another store for the same company I work for and pretended to be a customer to see what I could do to better my store that I work at and found service absoultly lousy, once I got a manager and told them whop I was where I worked and my position it was amazing how they jumpped and got me what I wanted, which of course is stupid cause if you are a ethical company then everyone regardless to who they are should be treated the same.) Now to finish off the guys in the hunting section I can see this happening (god knows I have done it by accident before) does it make it right, hell no, but it does happen espically when the higher ups tell you that you have to get it done. Just cause you got poor service from one store does not mean all the other stores are the same, still have faith and if things do not change then look for somewhere else.

For me I use real Peacock hurl, my grandfather for years raised pheasents and had peacocks that he also raised, so in otherwords I have a ton of peacock feathers (NOT FOR SALE) I do use the sythedic peacock hurl for my leeches and it is diffently one of my tops patterns that I use all year round. I find peacock is a great attractor for the trout, but the super fine dubbing works great also. Lets us know how they work out for you.

Gord, I missed that show as I was called into work on that day but I still think I can out drink you guys, or at least I put up a good show when you and scottie where in town. When you come let me know and hopefully we can get out and do some fishing, or I can show you how a real man drinks, lol Now back to the show, I usally do not go to the expo but this year I spent half a day ting flies at the FFC booth and had a ton of fun, got to talk to some old friends and meet some new people. As I see the expo for us Hardcore people it is more for us to **** chat with various shops, supplies, and manufactures, which is always intresting to see diffrent views from diffrent people.

Absoultly aswome, laughed my ass off, my fav part was the badass fish coming out of the water to eat the hopper, was it just me or was that a paraina (sp?)

Holy crap I actually look like I know what I am doing in the one photo. Just got the Dyna-King vise and lovin it once I learned how to use the the vise.

My loop jacket is by far the best jacket I have ever bought and is very durable, warm and rain proof, infact I was in a downpour and the rain just beeded up on it and ran off, all the zippers are water proof, and the cuffs of the sleves are velcro so you can do them up tight so no water gets down the sleve. I once had a william jospeh jacket that I gave away that was very durable and rain proof also, I think I spent $100 on it. On a side note I also purchase a sprey from Sport Check which seals jackets from the rain, and I highly suggest it. Be warned though when you sprey it you must give it a food 48 hours to let it set. Absoultly awsome stuff and I highly recommend it.

Censor what a great thing (Sarcasm) Here is a story for you. At my work we used to sell magazines, alot of them where technology related but we did carry a couple fitness magazine. Well we had a customer come into one of the stores and found the fitnesse magazines to be offensive (A girl on the front cover wearing a bikini) Long story short she threatened to take this to the media and our head office decieded that instead of having a huge problem they would just remove it from the shelfs and no long sell magazines.

Are you surprised?

How come I am not surprised?