THIS is a cool thread cool subject............My first one was using a friends , my teachers vise an old Thompson A he still has. It was at the cabin in Bedford , August sometime in 1962 , it was the old local "brown hackle" downwing wet fly , we didn't have feathers to do the wing properly so i cut a piece of plastic from and old "Tiger Bread" bag and used that for the down wing , there was a pattern on it that looked buggy. We went immediately to the pond that is there and caught a pile of bluegills before i stuck it on the brim of a cap , where it was for decades , don't know what ever happened to it , in 1962 who else was using synthetic cut wings for wet flies? LOL THAT'S my story and i'm stickin to it. Thanks Dave the mailman for lighting me up.