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Sheesh! You have way too much time on your hands!
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Pssst-- MissTreated. Do ya think they all got struck dumb at that view of my monstrosity, and are too bewildered and befuddled, haven't yet figured out how to comment on it without hurting my feelings? Or do you just think that they spent their weekend doing constructive and worthwhile things, aren't yet back at work where they waste away their employers' time fiddling on the internet?
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Really, I think they're all trying to figure out how to turn the hook purple...
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WWHHIIIZZZZZZ Over my head again.
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White tail barbs, having been emptied. (And my newer pattern makes the tails shorter than pictured, as a nymph's are vs an adult.) Conundrum. Should I submit to you the flies already tied with their long tails 'as is', or should I take scissors to them, snip them shorter? That's the long and short of my conundrum. I'll let you vote one choice off the island.
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Miss, those first flys come from the Ozarks?
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Indeed they were!
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Learning during the Swap-
I've not really played with beads before, so haven't paid them much attention. For the Swap I'm tying two Von Shucks for each person, mainly so that the "hoarders" might actually fish with an 'extra'. I'm tying with two different beads (OK, three or four, using up random beads), one a small glass bead, the other a 1/8th-inch brass one, to give you two different sink rates.
I pulled out my reloading scale- a bead can make a real difference in weight! The metal bead weighs more than 10 times the glass, is heavier than either the hook or the dressing, and is almost half the weight of the finished fly. The small glass bead, on the other hand, is not worth any consideration at all. The effect of weight is relative, and perhaps even a heavy Von Shuck is of no account in a given current or with whatever line/leader is on your reel; but in its own little world, the choice of bead makes a difference.
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Well good! I'm glad to know they made it. Thank you!
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Mine are ready to send. Same Alaska address as last year?
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Since this is the Tweaker Swap, I hope that each Swapper will explain the tweak and the reason therefore: the expected benefit, etc.
What if we put up our own pic with explanation? That'd keep info and pic together (rather than Mistress posting pic and then Swapper describing it some posts below, disconnected troutfly, are you all packed up, or can you still do this?
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Not completely packed up, just done tying. Forgot about this aspect.....working too many night shifts lately. I'll have to figure out how to post a pic.
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If you don't have a Photobucket or suchlike account, email the pic to me.
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Thanks. PM me your e-mail and I'll send a pic tomorrow. I send all my pics via FTP to my editor or on CD so no Photobucket. I'll post up the details of the fly after you post the pic.
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Works for me. Comin' atcha...
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Right on, Pic headed your way in the AM.
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You should have an e-mail.
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Coming soon to a mailbox near you: Courtesy of troutfly.
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Coming soon to a mailbox near you: Courtesy of troutfly. (please don't post to this thread until after troutfly posts his tweak, to keep pic & tale together) Here it is folks. The Steelhead Prairie Thunder is an adaptation of a featherwing streamer I tied up a number of years ago while watching a massive storm brewing. The original fly works quite well as a trolled fly for lakers and rainbows. I suspect it would work for Arctic Char but I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet. For this version I dropped the Silver Badger hackles over black hackles. As well there is a substantially thicker bundle of flashabou in this version. The flowing hackles represent the black clouds while the flashabou represents the lightening. Hook: Partridge CS42 Bomber size 2-6 Thread: Black UNI 6/0 Tail: Complete Golden Pheasant Tippet Body: Black Wapsi Bugger Chenille Wing: Holographic Flashabou (any bright colour) Hackle: Dyed Black Ringneck Pheasant Rump by Wapsi Have fun with it gang.
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