SilverDoctor

It's a Christmas large sporting auction that is run by a hospital in Sudbury Ontario. I lost my sister to LLou garretts disease out there. I am sure there are local groups that do the same kind of thing. My heart prayers goes out to anyone who has been affected or touched by this disease.

Won't be in on one till the new year, finishing he UK swap, have 100 flies to tie for charity (the ALS society) and two orders to fill for BC clients not to mention a couple of web sites to build, and an oil painting to finishfor a BC gallery.

It was 1992 when my diary indicates larger greyling. After that there was definitely a decline in size. There seemed to be more smaller fish but few large.

I file my hook points too. Makes em nice and sharp.

I'm on block watch patrol in my neighborhood. We keep an eye out to help keep the little ones keep safe by walking little kids who's parents are working.

Yep, I often check the lint trap. I've gotten some great dubbing out of there. Jean loads are great along with sweaters. When my sons where small my wife ran a load of Halloween costumes. resulted in great nymph bodies of about 6 years. It often works as a "base" to add other dubbing materials to. Just something to check out. Then there's my small coffee grinder and mixing various furs for great dubbing I will put aside and sort my trimmings also. Toss em in the blender for some interesting results. My dad used wool darning thread cut into quarter inch pieces and "carded" to make great dubbing for wet flies. On one Algonquin camp when I was a kid I remember him cutting up a work sock, fraying it to make some great wet fly bodies. When I started tying there was not the profusion of materials available like today. You needed to find sources.

For realllllly cheap dubbing check out your lint trap on your dryer. Some interesting dubbing have come out of there. Especially after colored cycles.

Loop to loop is a nice easy way to go. Quick and easy change ups for various conditions and weights.

Missed yesterday's meeting, had to work late. Should see you next meeting. I have a peg leg, one eye kinna funny looking and walk at a 45 degree angle. Shouldn't be hard to spot.

How about a Silver Doctor. You can then drop it in the Mail to me. He He...

thanks for posting a beauty.

Oldies on the radio. I tie out in the garage in my art studio. Often I take my laptop Mac out there and run through the songs I have in Itunes. Usually to the tune of scampering mice, wifes asking if I want anything, and various son's and friends coming and going stealing my wine. Don't always listen to music it does play in my head. Downside is that the studio is not heated (an extension on my garage) so I need to turn on the heater for 20 minutes in the winter to make it livable. Maybe we should do a posting showing everyones tying area.

Have at it Lonefisher

Daiichi 1250 # 12 Thread - Red

Not at all I have several fly rods and several vices.

Fantastic report Greg. Looks like you had a great trip. Glad to see you tied into some BC steel. You never know what is going to happen out there. Never have fished those rivers without multiple bear sightings. It's a feeding heyday for all the predictors big and small. Hit and run is a great way to do it. Great pictures and report guys.

They work quite well on the Bow. The Czech Nymph technique is is a deadly one.

I have one and they're a good little bobbin. Like you said they don't unthread at all. I use it in my travel kit. it does come with and especially nice bobbin threader that you can store in the bobbin when not in use.

Never get a line burn on trout, but came back from my Steelhead trip with 2 burns on my hands. Once on a strip strike and another on on a loose line pickup during a strike. Get the odd burn fishing for piike on the fly in the spring. Thinking of getting one of those stripping finger covers for that .

Oops OK guys time to move again, he found us!!!!!! To bad you didn't get out this year, will you be able to sneek out this winter or spring? Well if nothing else you can catch up reading the postes here form day 1. Good to see you back again.

If you varnish or head cement floss it will change the color and texture. The less you handle floss the better. I always have floss on a bobbin. Less frays that way. Don't let it run through your fingers. For a nice smooth floss finish, after you finish winding the floss on burnish it with a perfectly smooth tool smooth like the side of your bobbin. Or a plastic pen barrel. It aligns the fibers and flattens them for a nice sheen. Give it a try.

For straight forward tying stuff go to one of the local fly shops. I only mail order specialty materials that I can't get locally. First of all you spend you money and keep the local shops in business. Second and more important you get to SEE the materials before buying. You can pick through and select the exact color and texture of tying materials you want.

I have a few in ceramic and stainless. I think it depends on the quality. I like the ceramic as I've never had a problem with them. A couple of my stainless have developed groves that nick thread and I've consigned em to wire and other materials. I have one that I saved by super gluing a glass bead on the end. I've used the Nor-Vice automatic bobbin for a few years now and really love them. No problems so far. Just started tying on a Nor-vice. and really love it.

Ouch they are dumb enough to do it too. Did I ever tell you about registering my Craftsman heat gun and soldering Gun? Never thought of trying to register the Peter Gunn salmon fly fly Hummm.... I wonder.....

You can also post it and get someone else to suggest a name. Did that with my Doc's October Caddis which Gregg named, but I received some great suggestions from the forum.