" I will admit, however, that there is a certain amount of satisfaction to be had from watching a tier of greater stature in the community use a technique that you have been using right along simply because you thought it was the best way to do it." tie2fish makes a good point here,this is...

Roadkill I am a big fan of purple and find using it in the great lakes fairly productive, that looks really good with the black and chartreuse, nice fly.

With you on the bees wax and honey,too many honey facts to list here. Just two, honey was found in the pyramids still edible,bacteria cannot penetrate honey they used to use it on cuts. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest.

nice fly,always like starling.looks good with that yellow. the top fly looks alive, ready for flight.

Thank you old hat, I have seen your flies before (& tied a few) also. In this bunch I especially like 1-4-6,I like that dubbing on #1 I have used a burnt orange that looks like that for thorax on black stoneflies. In N.Y's salmon river blue is popular as is mostly dark nymphs and natural colors....

tj - I think there are a lot of similarities between the wingless wets and spey flies. I have had a lot of success fishing large soft hackle flies on Lake Erie steelhead. I like to scale up many of the classic flies to larger size hooks (generally in the 2, 4, 6 & 8 size range) and a range of d...

Now that is creative, and an awesome looking feather it is. Mark I have learned yet another lesson. Keep it up, there is always something new, talk about being aware of your surroundings. Are you friends with grasshopper?

Thanks for the information gentlemen, I have new eagerness for trying/tying (new to me) some new flies, this is a great hobby/sport.

That is some awesome looking hackle,I like the fly also.

Thanks Mark for the ruffed grouse,ringneck pheasant heads up.Wanted to see what you thought about a couple of ideas,I came up with the idea of large w.w. because I live so close to the salmon river, obviously I fish steelhead most of the year. Got hooked on tying and fishing w.w. inthe summer on fis...