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edit in- Flytyer it has no name...... I suppose I could make up a name for it but..... I haven't so far.... as I mentioned it kinda breaks rules as its a floss body and is not quite a dee or spey fly..... really like this fly though. Have to say bronze mallard is kinda pain to work with but I like the end result edit again- also if I remember correctly it has 7 ribs if you include the purple floss and 8 if you include the spey hackle.

I have been playing around with it a bit myself but I hate being a stickler to genre's or styles so I kinda like a bit of a freestyle edge to my flies..... plus saying that means I don't have to follow the rules. Speys and dees are a focus right now but my favorite part of salmon flies is the floss work which is not usually part of spey/dee flies...... wings are all well and good but bloody expensive imho..... when I get a chance I like to start one and work on it bit by bit...... Just wish i had a bigger selection of materials as I got several floss bodies packed away that need completion but I have no good winging materials or colors to finish em with. Finished a pretty funky one a couple weeks back before I packed up my tying station and gave it to Glenbow...... shoulda snapped a pic now that I think about it.

happy birthday Birchy, hope you can get out a bit today!

totally missed this post rickr. thats a crazy story thanks for sharing it. Must have been an surreal feeling back in that time especially considering communication of the incident would have been extremely slow compared to todays standards...... Would have been pretty damn scary for adults let alone young children..... Don't know if you heard about the halifax explosion in 1917 but up here there was a short historical re inactment thing that used to be played on a regular basis on TV when I was young..... even then it seemed quite scary...... heres the link to that story sounds like there is some eerily similar factors http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/ check it out..... makes me glad safety standards do a pretty good job of making sure these things don't happen much anymore.... knock on wood

I think we have simply had a warm winter or atleast the past couple months have been pretty nice most of the time...... nice weather means more people fishing. In about a month numerous other waters are gonna open up and the pressure on the bow will go down a bit...... right now popular opinion would say that theres 2 pieces of river in the province that are fishable..... a chunk of the lower bow and a chunk of the crow...... come spring this will go up by 10x and summer 100x if not more....... everybody just needs to relax fish what they can for now and once summer comes everyone can spread out and have some more space...... people are also talkin about fishing "spots" or "pools"........ in my minimal experience on the lower bow in the winter (specially the late winter) you can fish some of the water in between the wintering holes and runs in fact quite a bit...... I rarely walk past these intermediate waters i will usually drift a few casts through as I work down or up looking for the really productive looking water...... I don't fish the lower as much as many of you but I often find that the average size of the fish I catch in these mediocre looking stretchs is larger then from the established pools. Everytime I hit fish creek I catch fish in places everyone else I see just ignores....... I may not catch as many as someone who lives on a uber productive run or hole but I fish them as well if they are not occupied and usually do pretty well....... I think theres lots of water out there and and if a persons willing to properly work the entire river and cover a bit of ground they will catch fish regardless of the number of people fishing "the good spots". I am not being critical I will sit and fish a productive hole if its empty as well but if its not keep working the other water you may not tag as many but is it really a numbers game?

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hmmm. I got horse tranks......

looks sweet could try some with peacock herl with a lime spot in the middle sorta like a lime coachman trude

Sorry brent nothin can make the Ducks lose

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happy birthday man. thanks for all the great posts.

LOL your probably right brownee, also, I'm sure the student loan that comes with the major in nuclear engineering is pretty big as well.......

Love em they look awesome. Those flies are gonna produce for sure.

your wrong Brownee..... major in quantum engineering must mean a bigger paycheque. Its all about priorities

I don't mind picking up drunk 1st year college girls can I come hang out at this bar? Whats a good "sexy" major I can BS about....... HMMMMM maybe something like "I'm here for my degree in boxer modeling" or "I have a major in in quantum engineering and a minor in foreplay and female satisfaction" or maybe just the exceptionally clever "I just work here I run the computer database that reports everyones grades, How are you doing in in that chem class? You wanna buy me a drink?" Yes BBB I am probably just like a lot of those pathetic guys you see there...... However you should note the worst pickup line in the world just happens to be "I'm actually a big fly fisherman" I think girls just take it wrong...... I could see someone who has no idea what fly fishing is as taking that as meaning "i'm gay" just think about it for a couple seconds.......

Rickr i already have a 10 ft 6 wt and its the cats ass as far as I am concerned. Doesn't even feel any longer after casting with it for a while and it works for everything even tiny creeks..... though it is more powerful then is needed for the small stuff. I think you are gonna love that rod. I will have to try to meet up with you sometime to give it a try if you don't mind. Also just wait till you see how that rod will roll a rig way out there without breaking a sweat. Plus it will make a sick bulltrout rod.......

looks sick man maybe a bit longer on the tail and maybe try some with a red glass bead and some lead on the front third of the hook for weight. the lead will hide pretty easy under the dubbing. I do some with 1 layer of lead and some with 2 I usually find the heavier ones have a nicer action and produce better.

I have never seen a rod broken doing this but the physics do make sense. I have done it on occasion with smaller fish but I have always been somewhat consious of this possibilty with bigger fish so when handing them I usually won't even try it.

pssssst someone find out if Rickr has a pickup truck. I think he's one of em!

WOW I just spent like an hour on the bigfoot forum...... I feel like my life has lost all sense of meaning...... Most of those guys agree that its been 40 years since any decent evidence has been produced and it wasn't so great...... I say BS till I meet one in person.....

really..... crap and I went to macs for coffee this morning..... what was I thinking.....

yeah being a poacher has nothing to do with race, or place of origin..... assholes come from/are already everywhere. However a lot of places around the world look at fishing much differently then we do..... even tons of people here. They see releasing a fish as being stupid, maybe even a waste...... but usually it is because of poor education on the subject..... the ones who are not educated on our regulations and the reasons for them are possibly fixable as they will often respond to proper education. The people that are the problem are the ones who have the me, me, me, mine, mine, mine ideolodgy so ingrained that they don't care either way..... educate all you want they won't give a hoot. Now there may be certain demographic factors that do play a part in the development of this way of thinking but it MUST also stem from many other factors. And location of origin will NEVER be the only factor...... I think on this site we have guys of basically every origin who have not developed this way of thinking and understand the need for conservation. That right there is a prime example.

man your rock fish smash's the record Glen landed..... he's got some catching up to do...... Great pics looks like it was a nice trip in anyrate.