12-31-2005, 10:30 PM
Thanks for your sentiments and concerns, guys. Matthew is doing very much better now. He's home and driving his mother crazy as usual. (She's paying for her raising. Hee Hee Hee.) He's still a bit skinny and weak but he has color again and has put on a few of the 31 pounds he lost. They're working now to get his insulin adjusted.
Hmm. I guess that'll be my next project. Never considered wrapping that strap around my head. Cool. I usually just make two or three trips. Now I'll have to have one. There's no end to this addiction...
Nice Carey, Don. You obviously know what you're doing at the vise. Uniformity is something that comes only through repeating the same thing over and over, which for me usually means tying a couple of dozen flies of the same pattern and proportion in the same day. The first few usually go into the kids/guest boxes as I work to get all my ratios right and get into the groove. I also try to tie all of the same size and vary only the colors before switching to a different size or pattern. Yes, I know the fish usually don't care. Its just a pride thing, I guess. Kind of like wearing clean underwear for the undertaker in case you get killed in an auto accident. At least that's what my great grandma used to say. I wouldn't want to fall out of my tube in the middle of the lake, drown, and have somebody pick up my flies and remark, "Hey, this guy was a lousy fly tier!"
Discussions about uniformity aside, here are a few leech numbers I've been restocking with lately. These are the ubiquitous Mohair Leech #6 in claret, olive, black, and purple. Actually, I think that there is a rust colored one that sneaked in there also, though the camera flash didn't do the colors any justice.
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Hmm. I guess that'll be my next project. Never considered wrapping that strap around my head. Cool. I usually just make two or three trips. Now I'll have to have one. There's no end to this addiction...
Nice Carey, Don. You obviously know what you're doing at the vise. Uniformity is something that comes only through repeating the same thing over and over, which for me usually means tying a couple of dozen flies of the same pattern and proportion in the same day. The first few usually go into the kids/guest boxes as I work to get all my ratios right and get into the groove. I also try to tie all of the same size and vary only the colors before switching to a different size or pattern. Yes, I know the fish usually don't care. Its just a pride thing, I guess. Kind of like wearing clean underwear for the undertaker in case you get killed in an auto accident. At least that's what my great grandma used to say. I wouldn't want to fall out of my tube in the middle of the lake, drown, and have somebody pick up my flies and remark, "Hey, this guy was a lousy fly tier!"
Discussions about uniformity aside, here are a few leech numbers I've been restocking with lately. These are the ubiquitous Mohair Leech #6 in claret, olive, black, and purple. Actually, I think that there is a rust colored one that sneaked in there also, though the camera flash didn't do the colors any justice.
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