SilverDoctor

I find Prismacolor markers come in a great color selection. Still have a lot form my pre computer days as a designer, last for years and years.

Some of the old wet patterns where tied with variety of feathers. Often with primary or secondary feathers for different looks. They where usually duck, turkey, or goose sometimes married of different colors to achieve a pattern. They also used the flank feathers of duck, teal, mallard, and wood duck from various parts of the body. Old plates are usually pretty accurate, photo reproduction was in it's infancy in those days and didn't get good color reproduciton. Give me a shout if you need more info.

Very cool, I love tying classic wets. Worth while project. I too ran through one plate of "Trout" a number of years ago. Ended up fishing most of them. One of these winters I'd like to do enough for a good display. Nice catalog page by the way.

Actually no the Ari ‘t Hart reels are out of my league. Brother in law in BC has one, incredible piece of machinery. This one on the Deer Creek is a is a Airflo Balance. 911W. nice large arbor with great balance on the rod. It has a sealed drag that's very nice. Put it through it's paces over the last year and quite like it. Interesting design. What I really like about it is the way it's set up for palming both rims for better control while playing fish. Decent reel, great capacity wasn't expensive, lots of bang for the buck, probably a sleeper that will disappear from the market.

Not the highest end system here but a great mid trout Spey rod. Have really enjoyed throwing flies and nymph rigs with the little Deer Creek 5/6. Had a ball with skid bitch and Stimulators last fall. Throws a nice Rio windcutter, a variety of Skagit and Scandia lines. Have had a ton of fun with this rod and coaxed the odd Trout and Steelhead to net. It's been a great rod and a lot easier on the old body and sholders than the big fly rods. My Tennis elbow disappeared.

I got my last batch of anti static bags from a small computer repair place down the street from where I work (any computor shop that installs memory should have em.). The bags are for shipping memory etc. I asked him to save me some discards and got 4. They go a long way. I just slice a bunch thin strips off with an exacto knife as I need them. They make for very translucent looking bodies.

Dad got me through the top of the ear when I was 10 with an Atlantic salmon fly. Just clipped it off whit pliers and we went back to fishing. After all the bite was on.

You guys are on, I have some great litter box bugger patterns.

Mmmmm... fried Sea Kitty. Peta always reminds me that natural selection does not always work. Sort of like a Platypus with a unicorn horn and hoofs. They make no sense except to other brain dead's who have no idea about the natural world.

Works great, I use it on Caddis and mayfly egg sacks. Give it a shot.

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God, I'm tired just looking at the survey. It doesn't make sense to me as I use a number of rods for different fishing situations including lake stream and variations of.

Have a great one.

Take some lessons before you buy or hook up with a tier with some experience. Save some grief that way and know what you should buy.

You can watch Fly tying the Anglers Art previous seasons here

Think Computer ergonomics. works the same. I find I need to get up and stretch every now and again. Shoulder blade pain usually means you're tensing up. There was a discussion a while back on this if you do a search.

I love "found" stuff for tying. Old electrical cords for wire (coper johns). Computer anti static bags for Cromies, Holographic chocolate bar wrappers for streamer bodies. Any holiday will glean you a host of foil and feathers. Not to mention dollar stores, and of course Micheal's. Fabric stores for great floss. It goes on and on. I once found a feather placeholder made of Jungle Cock nails. Not to mention feather dusters. Lots of goodies out there.

Flytyer hit it on the head, you need to tie for the size of prey available at the time. I run from 1 inch to four inch patterns. Through the season size up for fry. Spend some time looking at the size of the baitfish at tie to it.

I just like the look of bidot tails.

I think I would be more wary of the water than the fish. Even on pristine water you never know what is in it, or what has expired updtream. A quick boil or bring your own can save you some trying times.

Thanks for posting It made my day. Miss that area of BC.

Try tying in a small dubbin ball or thread ball on teh back of the hook first, you can then then tie in the biot and flair them to the proper angle, adding a bit of cement keeps em in place. As was said rubber tails work great too.

Beautiful fish thanks for posting.

Humm, lucky, I'm working today and Friday. but new years will be nice.

As Flytyer said the Radencich book is the best one out there, I prize it, and often refer to it like the Benchside referance. For materials that's always a tough one. Have had luck with some stuff on ebay. and a few other online sites like creeksideflyfishing.com. I buy most of my stuff now in a Kelowna shop called "Trout Waters Fly and Tackle". I usually stock up on a few thing when I go out there to visit relatives.Will be out there all next week as a matter a fact. They have some great quality classic materials like bustard . I like to be able to see materials I buy now. Been burnt a few times on mail order stuff. Classic materials are getting more and more expensive. And the quality is sometimes poor. It's not a cheap area of tying and I tend to do it less and less because of the increasing cost. I really enjoy tying Spey and Dee flies and winged wets much more. Classics tend to be more of a labor thing with a lot of hours needed to compete the various stages. Have fun