ladystrange

And this would be why i always wondered why they put a hockey team in dallas hockey game sounds good. i'll be sure to sharpen my elbow pads. i wonder if i can still skate?

thanks geoff, i will. BBB, here's a cool one. if you dont have the polar bear i have both the blue and natural artic ice hook - partridge bartleet 3/0 (you could probably use just a regular streamer hook tread florescent orange tag silver tinsle tail - crest (yellow) - i dont have this but i have other yellow feathers rib oval silver tinsel body silver tinsel wing stacked white polar bear, silver krystal flash, blue polar bear, silver kristal flash, white buck tail eyes yellow paint, black dots Phantom of the lake hook 2xl-3xl #10-14 thread 3/0 black tail lt grey marabou, 1 strand clear krystal flash, body 2 black beads, remander clear or pearl (1clear, 1 black, 3 clear, 1 black, 1 clear) - have the beads variation - additions hackle - none, if water is stained, try 1 wind white saddle hackle.if pupae are rising to the surface, build up last forward bead section with bleched ostrich herl to emulate the clear thorax there are more - lots more. i will swing by the store - tomorrow is not looking good - i am house sitting.

we still have to go fishing mike. maybe next year i will get you into tying. come over to the dark side. lol but yeah, i could use the extra hand. so you could either drive out here to calgary and maybe do my breaks and an oil change while you're at it and i'll tie you some flies or i could just go down to the electonics shop and pick up another hand. they probably have something like that at house of tools or princess auto

oh, flytyer, i like the idea of the pick a number - unknown, numbered fly swap. or the bergman style - perhaps another one we could do with the UK boys at a later date

what exactly IS a czech nymph anyway. i keep hearing about them and reading bits and pieces here and there, but i have no idea as to what they are specifically. generally, i get the concept that it is a nymph and certain style of nymphing... or is that like asking what a bergman fly is? a number of different yet similar patterns in style and application as well as usage

pretty graphs

difficult not to ... i've tried really, really hard and yet, there it is. all sticky outy and looking like a belly button lint trap.

lol. best that i dont explain it then.

well... it's a short story

Hey, i Think that's Wetduck!!!

what about a festive theme everyone gets a different holiday and not restricted to canadian holidays, suggestion - 4th of july fly, halloween, christmas, easter, chuanaka (sp?) etc. i'm not up on my holidays but you get the idea. or flags of the world. pick a country, and use the colours of the flag to create a fly

ice fishing at chain & beaver mines lake

you should have kept it and had it mounted. i know a great taxidermist. does wonderful fihs - his paint is excellent. he might have even been able to make it look like a fish

groan my bad joke repitoir is getting much bigger thanks to this site...

time for a snowmobile... all is not lost. wait till chestermere freezes over. then go join the races

Chicken what else would it taste like.. DUH

i actually seem to use it quite a bit. but then again, i ended up with 3 bags of the stuff and had to do something with it. but i hadnt thought of using the back part of the sword for herl.

desperate j/k or deaf?

that's the thing. i now that would have been easier, but wasnt the look i was going for. this isnt for fishing, but for presentation. or at least that was the intention in the first place. if i were planning on using it for fishing, i would ahve definately done the beaded body. but dragonfly butts stick up. the question i do have is about wings prependicular across the body. kind of like the butterfly in flyanglers avatar - how do you make them stay like that? what is the technique for wings that go out to the side rather than tying the stalk of the feather parallel with the hook? that was my biggest issue.i was grumbling about the floss, but actually it was the wire that was in my way. i like that 3rd hand contraption. but i'm still a little leary about ordering online. tried it for the first time almost 3 weeks ago and have not rec'd my stuff yet and i have had no reply to my email either. i will give it another week, send an email and then i will dispute the charge on my credit card. unfortunately this supplier is well known overseas and i'm not overly happy. perhaps i'm just impatient.

too bad, they always had the neatest stuff in there.

to a wolverine perhaps... as dinner

i can't say that i know exactly what an extended body is... i dont know the terms yet. just see something and tie it. most of the time it works. anyway. this is what i was doing last night. nice to know at least one other person gets frustrated and they cant sort out what they are making either. lol - thanks AL i'm not sure if i am happy with it or not. i sort of think it looks like a 7year old's art project for school. i dunno

particularly if you are a pirate

i need to rant for a moment. do you ever have those days where you wished you had at least 2 more hands and in this case using your teeth just won't work because you are too crosseyed to actually see what you are doing? i'm having one of those days. i'm doing a 2 part fly. 1 but 2 bodies... THE PROJECT. as i sit here cursing myself for actually attempting this. i find i am quite mad, crazy even. this seems to be a little too complex. expecially when there is no pattern, no picture and no directions. just the image i have had in my brain for the last few nights. the floss in the bobbin thing worked well. somewhat smooth but since i was doing a weave it really didnt matter if i pawed at it a little. i'm beginning to think an investment in the self retracting bobbin would be a REALLY good idea. however, for this project i had 3 bobbins going, tinsle and 2 wire ribs ALL at the same time. i'm feeling a little busy but i'm not sure how i could have simplified this monstrosity. SIGH, back to my fly... body # 2, not on a hook. wire moves. i wish i had pondered this concept before i started... anybody have a hand i could borrow?

nevermind -12