Wire Bodied 1250's

[William Anderson]

Oh God, I screwed up your post. Thank you for the kind comments. I hit the edit button when I meant to his the quote button and started writing away, (as a moderator I have one of those). You were saying something thoughtful about having the benefit of shooting thousands of flies, and hadn't meant to come across having said too much. I'm sorry I messed up your post. If you can recall...would you mind editing yours? So sorry.

My response:

No, no. I sincerely appreciate your comments. Everyone's comments, actually. I honestly enjoy an honest critique as much as a compliment. I only commented about the photography because I do fear the risk of having a few folks hesitate to post a pic or sharing if they are concerned about their photography skills or even their tying. It would be a shame to miss out on a larger group of participants. I hope readers find this forum very encouraging as well as thoughtfully insightful. I know it is that. (and here I am wishing I could share a thought with one sentence rather than five. )

Any comments or suggestions to help me improve my tying or photography are sincerely appreciated. I just appreciate the feedback. I asked everyone to be nice, you were that in spades.

w

[gingerdun]

Hi William,
Great flies, and I can sympathize with the photography struggles. That is why I often resort to the scanner. Anyway, I understood what you meant about the danger of discouraging some tiers who think their work doesn't measure up. That was a worry of mine, and still is. But, as you see, I muster up enough nerve to post from time to time.

By the way, your shots can be salvaged in Photoshop, as you see below. I noticed that this is pretty low res. Do you have a higher-res file that you downsized for the forum?

I had to do some cloning to fill in parts of the blue background that were missing after rotating the image. Pretty easy stuff—and nobody would ever know the cloning was done. No need to reshoot.

[tgif]

I would be happier to see them hanging out of a fishes mouth! Make sure to share some pics then too. Great ties and good feedback!?

[William Anderson]

Thanks TGIF. Agreed.

GD, that is really nice of you to do that. Cool operation. I should have thought of it initially. It does prove the point about the attitude a fly can take with a litttle adjustment. Thanks for the fix. Now I just have to work out better lighting and get past my point and shoot camera. That will be some time from now. I turn 29 again in Sept, maybe for my birthday.

w

[CM_Stewart]

These are Daiichi 1250's. I really like these hooks.

I like them too.

What tool are you holding them with? I'm looking for a tool with micro sized jaws that could be used to remove micro hooks from micro fish, and whatever you are using to hold those flies looks like it has potential.

[William Anderson]

Here is an emerger version, not quite site legal, but a close cousin.



Cdc emerging wing and duffy material from base of the hen hackle from the fly above for the thorax/legs.

w

[tie2fish]

Emerger version, eh? Sure it's not just a bastard sibling from when the feather duster salesman was in town ... ?

[Roadkill]

I sincerely appreciate your comments. Everyone's comments, actually. I honestly enjoy an honest critique as much as a compliment. I only commented about the photography because I do fear the risk of having a few folks hesitate to post a pic or sharing if they are concerned about their photography skills or even their tying. It would be a shame to miss out on a larger group of participants. I hope readers find this forum very encouraging as well as thoughtfully insightful. I know it is that. (and here I am wishing I could share a thought with one sentence rather than five. )

Any comments or suggestions to help me improve my tying or photography are sincerely appreciated. I just appreciate the feedback. I asked everyone to be nice, you were that in spades.
w

William I truely love the participation of Hans and other gifted experts (both tyers and photographers) on this site and I think it might be nice to add another Forum heading like The Art of the Wet Fly so members who want to post as an artistic exercise beyond a mere fly dressing post can exhibit their work and the viewing public can see it discused in that light. It would also provide a common area for discusion about the technical aspects of improving our "fly studios", backgrounds, lighting, color control, camera controls, and editing. It could be a place for discussion of the finer points of flies presented to please fishermen rather than those tied just to please fish. IMO there is artistry at work in both camps but the focus may be different. Someday I will get a DSLR to enjoy the finer points of the artstic presentation beyond my point and shoot.

[gingerdun]

I think Roadkill's idea has some merit. Photo technique keeps popping up as an off-topic theme in scattered parts of the forum. Perhaps it would be good to have a separate area for that. But we do have some of that info in the Links/Resources area.

If there is enough interest, then the heading, ART OF THE WET FLY, might be too general, and possibly mistaken as a reference to some books with similar titles. Maybe a more descriptive title such as FLYTIER'S PHOTO LAB, or FLYTIER'S PHOTO TECHNIQUES would be more informative.

Lance

[Hans Weilenmann]

I posted my response to roadkill's message in the dedicated thread started

Cheers,
Hans W