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A combination of my 2 most favourite things. I collect Lego and I have about 100 men in a drawer only a few feet from my tying desk, you can only imagine the mess they make.

Yes but we don't talk about it, after all its your tax dollars at work. Sorry I should have warned you that I knew him from work. Next time you see him bug him about the deer hair he promised me. Yeah I was thinking doing some in olive and some in tan with CDC.

Thanks guys. I didn't know what an RS2 is so I googled it RS2

Ok, so I did a little ebay shopping over the holidays and I have just received a couple of shipments today. One of those came with 50 #24 midge hooks, I can't remember what I was thinking, I may have been drunk. Any thoughts on some patterns to tie? I need a magnifying lamp in order to see them.

I fished it a few times last year and Din is right it is really unlike the lower bow. Numbers wise I did ok but all the fish were small and the real difference to me was the seeming lack of insects compared to downstream, still worth fishing if you don't have time to go south.

Ok so I had this all tied up last night and didn't get around to taking a photo. This one is for one of the few people I have ever watched do a fly tying demo live. I really enjoyed his demonstration at last years expo. A fly that I would imagine pretty much everyone owns or has fished in the past. The chartreuse and white Clouser. Hook: Mustad size 4 #34011 Thread: white 6/0 (3/0 probably would be better) Body: Chartreuse and white bucktail, Pearlescent Crystal Flash Gills: Red floss Eyes: Red Dumbell Eyes The red "gill" is actually influence from Maxwell.

Ceramic coated wire is used to wrap ferrites to make electomagnets and transformers. The ceramic provides insulation so that wire can be wrapped touching the neighbouring wrap without any conduction. Oh and I use it cause its what I have. My job and schooling involves electronics. Any fine red copper wire would work just as well, but if you are interested I am sure there are electronics component stores or hardware stores that carry this stuff over there as well. I bought it for ~$10 and the roll will last forever

Nice tie. I got 2 questions: What size of hook? It looks relatively small. Does the sequin add any motion to the fly? I have never experimented with sequins.

Wow I am not sure I would have even attempted that.

it didn't take long for people to capitalize on the destruction check these sites out: Denim Pine Article Denim Pine Product Sheet It also appears that a some people in a sagging forestry industry are making lots of money just getting rid of the infested timber.

Awesome. I am gonna have to try some of that web wing stuff. I take a dozen if you need the practice.

I am going to beautiful Waukesha, WI for a 2 week training course which covers the easter long weekend (not a stat holiday down there) I was hoping to find a guide to do a 1 day walk and wade. Anyone know anything useful?

As I said in the other post about sharkskin the line actually has increased surface area due to its roughness, but also because of the roughness there is less surface tension therefore less drag on the water. Now can I have my free line yet?

I have a hard time imagining a plastic wearing down a Titanium/Chrome guide in a noticeable amount of time. If I had lots of money i would buy this line the science behind it just makes sense, although the cut finger thing is probably an issue.

I am from Lund BC, on the west coast so I will add what I know. two big problems are: the addition of non-native fish, namely atlantic salmon which have now been found spawning in some river systems obvious loss of habitat for native fish, and sea lice which grows rapidly when fish are in held in pens, whole runs have been destroyed be sea lice. Also a good portion of the fish food ends up on the bottom below the pens which significantly alters the bottom fish population, rock cod, ling cod, halibut etc. are replaced by less desirable bottom dwellers. There is a bay very close to where I grew up that had a fish farm in it, the farm has been gone for probably 15 years and the bottom fish population is starting to recover. Recently fish farms have been setup on shore rather than in the ocean this eliminates the non-native species issue. As for fish farms protecting native fish from human pressure it is probably a wash at this point as to the damaged caused versus the amount of pressure taken off. There is also a lake near where i am from that has a Kokanee ( Kokanee info ) farm which has essentially stocked that lake and others in the system with Kokanee.

Not that it makes any differnece but I was going for fishable if I was going for pretty I would have spent an hour tying a dozen flies and scrutinizing all of them and not submitted the first one I tied.

I think the freshwater licenses should be similar to the Saltwater ones in that there are two license groups one for residents of Canada and one for non-residents. This out of province thing is a little ridiculous in my opinion.

With whatever is available.

I think before you go out and spend a ton of cash on material I would tie a few (dozen) flies with what came in you kit, just to make sure you enjoy it. If it is like the kit I got from my inlaws it probably came with an instruction manual to tie a few patterns specific to what materials are in the kit. just my $.02

Cause I couldn't enter my Candied midge from the christmas flies challenge I found this one. Its different, really it is. My adaptation of a Rojo Midge: Hook: Tiemco 2487 #16 Thread: Red 8/0 Gills: White Calf body Head: Green bead, Bright green peacock herl Body: Red Midge floss, Red 30 AWG ceramic coated wire wrapped opposite the floss

My dad loved it. He has a good friend who teachs a fly-fishing course and he kept saying how he was going to quiz him on what the patterns were. Half of them are customized so he probably won't get the exact names. Anyways thanks everyone who helped with the patterns. I will do this again however probably not soon, it was very time consuming.

Missing my vise only 3 days till I get back from vacation. Din could you post a recipe?

Yes there a number of dead snags that seem to pop up and grab your fly on the backcast. Tomorrow is my dad's birthday I will let you all know how it goes.

thanks everyone i was so critical of it that my wife finally just made me wrap it so I would stop fiddling with it.

So I started out almost 2 months ago with the plan to make a shadow box for my dads 60th. The inspiration is the beaver pond where my dad taught me to fish and that I fished almost weekly until I was 18 and left for university. I still fish it a couple of times a year, I went there yesterday and there was a thin layer of ice on it not good for fly-fishing. The Pond is the background for the shadow box. I planned on doing streamers and drys but a botched ebay auction left me without the hackle I wanted, so streamers and nymphs it is. The streamers got kind squished in transit so they aren't as nice as I hoped they would be. Anyways here is the final product. These things are hard to photograph at least for me.