Fun Float

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Re: Fun Float

Post by hankaye » Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:21 am

DUBBN, Howdy;

Don't know about the rivers runnin' up hill ...

I have seen the water part around the feet of a Morman Elder as he was wet wadding once..
stepped out of the stream and his feet were dry as when he started :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Fun Float

Post by DUBBN » Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:27 am

hankaye wrote:DUBBN, Howdy;

Don't know about the rivers runnin' up hill ...

I have seen the water part around the feet of a Morman Elder as he was wet wadding once..
stepped out of the stream and his feet were dry as when he started :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

hank

I've seen it Rain Fire in the Sky. No, wait!!! That was John Denver! I just gagged! :x
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Re: Fun Float

Post by hankaye » Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:32 am

DUBBN, Howdy;

Thanks for that ....
DUBBN wrote: I've seen it Rain Fire in the Sky. No, wait!!! That was John Denver! I just gagged! :x
NOT! :|

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Re: Fun Float

Post by DUBBN » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:48 am

Heres a pic of the PMD Emerger I used yesterday. The fly in the pic is a size 14, the flys yesterday were 16's.

Hook - Mustad 3906B, size 16- 12
Thread - Coats & Clark Lemon
Tail - Speckled Hen Cape
Abdomen - Coats & Clark Lemon (twisted)
Thorax - Light Chocolate Rabbit fur
Collar - Brown Hen Hackle

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It takes about 2 minutes to whip this pattern out and have it fish worthy. I spent 10 minutes this morning trying to get it to compare with the patterns Tie2fish has been posting lately. I'm not close yet, but I am proud of the tie. If I want it bad enough, I will get my tying skills on par with the standards of this forum. I think it's called practice, dedication, and hard work?
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Re: Fun Float

Post by willowhead » Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:17 pm

John Denver was in the news lately........something about him suffering dementia i think it said.......poor guy. :(
Nice fly Wayne..... ;)
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Re: Fun Float

Post by DUBBN » Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:14 pm

willowhead wrote:John Denver was in the news lately........something about him suffering dementia i think it said.......poor guy. :(
Nice fly Wayne..... ;)
Poor guy is right. He passed away in a plane crash in the late 90's.
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Re: Fun Float

Post by letumgo » Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:17 pm

Wayne - Lovely pattern and you have done a great job photographing the fly. Question - do you respool the Coat and Clark thread, or does it fit in a regular bobbin? The next time I am at JoAnne Fabrics I plan to look for the Lemon colored thread. I'd like a few of these flies for "testing purposes".
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Re: Fun Float

Post by DUBBN » Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:48 pm

Thanks Ray. The C&C thread comes in two sizes that I know of Large and small. The small is fits a regular bobbin with no problems.
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I became acquainted with the thread after fishing the San Juan river in New mexico quite a few years ago. The then "go to" pattern was this fly...

http://prairiegoat.com/Fishing/FlyPatte ... pecial.htm

I bought the thread and still tie and fish the Yong Specials from time to time. Especially in the Winter. I tyed my PMD pattern with the thread as I dont have silk as yet. I was trying to imitate the flys Tie2fish has been posting lately. Seriously, it is a brand new pattern. I tyed it an hour before I left to go fishing yesterday morning. I tyed 3 of them in about 15 minutes, and they looked like it, but they were affective. It was my plan to wax the thread first, but being groggy eyed I forgot. :(
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Re: Fun Float

Post by hankaye » Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:55 pm

w-h, Howdy;
willowhead wrote:John Denver was in the news lately........something about him suffering dementia i think it said.......poor guy. :(
Nice fly Wayne..... ;)
You're thinking of Glenn Campbell...

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Re: Fun Float

Post by tie2fish » Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:19 pm

Wayne ~
I'm sure that your flies will catch as many or more fish than mine, but I'm flattered that you like what I've done.
Some of the same morons who throw their trash around in National parks also vote. That alone would explain the state of American politics. ~ John Gierach, "Still Life with Brook Trout"
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