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mikesl
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I recently inherited/ received for xmas my grandfather's old tying materials, bought some cheap tools, and tried my hand at making a few flies.
My main motivation right now in tying is to be able to get flies the way i want, but cannot buy... e.g. I had a hard time finding commercial smallish woolly buggers with what i felt was enough weight, and generic buggy nymphs with good weight.
here is my first batch of stuff, keeping to the easy things...
Lots of walt's worm and variations, some x-caddis, some bob wyatt style deer hair emergers, a rough, large parachute adams and some bigger x-caddis.
also made some woolly buggers, 1 shown here with UV dun dubbing rather than chenille.
happy to report that the walt's worm and wolly bugger are fish-approved... not so sure how the dries will do, might need to work on them a bit before they are where i want.
This is a good sized fish for me, took the UV wooly bugger in high muddy water on a small limestoner today
Thank you everyone on this board (and a few that i've met in person) for the knowledge sharing and inspiration.... going to be a fun year.
My main motivation right now in tying is to be able to get flies the way i want, but cannot buy... e.g. I had a hard time finding commercial smallish woolly buggers with what i felt was enough weight, and generic buggy nymphs with good weight.
here is my first batch of stuff, keeping to the easy things...
Lots of walt's worm and variations, some x-caddis, some bob wyatt style deer hair emergers, a rough, large parachute adams and some bigger x-caddis.
also made some woolly buggers, 1 shown here with UV dun dubbing rather than chenille.
happy to report that the walt's worm and wolly bugger are fish-approved... not so sure how the dries will do, might need to work on them a bit before they are where i want.
This is a good sized fish for me, took the UV wooly bugger in high muddy water on a small limestoner today
Thank you everyone on this board (and a few that i've met in person) for the knowledge sharing and inspiration.... going to be a fun year.