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Most rivers and lakes have midges in them. Midges hatch all year. so don’t overlook using those small flies where ever you fish.
you might consider tieing those small flies on with a nonslip mono loop knot. The monoloop knot (rapala knot) is strong knot but the most important feature is that the loop allows freer movement of the little fly.
I use a surgeon’s loop on all my flies but this way I can use 6X on the 30’s. Lets the fly still move with a heavier tippet.
Now that you say it again I remember you saying that in threads before. I think I have over looked it because I keep envisioning wasting a lot of tippet making the knot. Stopping to think about the knot I can see where once you have the knot formed but not tightened that you can work out some of the excess tippetand get the loop to be small. But in my mind it seems like a lot of finger manipulation. Got any a dope slap way of explaining my short fall thinking?
The other implication of what you said is that you can not use 6x tippet and a size 30 fly and still tie a nonslip monoloop knot. I am not making that connection at all.
Post: Now that you say it again I remember you saying that in threads before. I think I have over looked it because I keep envisioning wasting a lot of tippet making the knot. Stopping to think about the knot I can see where once you have the knot formed but not tightened that you can work out some of the excess tippetand get the loop to be small. But in my mind it seems like a lot of finger manipulation. Got any a dope slap way of explaining my short fall thinking?
The other implication of what you said is that you can not use 6x tippet and a size 30 fly and still tie a nonslip monoloop knot. I am not making that connection at all.
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Make a loop in the tippet just big enough to feed the fly through, then feed the fly through that loop twice. Put the EYE of the fly in the middle of the LOOP and slowly tighten. As soon as it looks like it is around the eye of the fly , slide the loop off with a nail and tighten. Makes a real small loop right in front of the eye, so the knot doesn’t create a change in the flow of the fly (does that make sense, like two flies tied real close together the front fly / the knot/ causes a current for the back fly in this case THE fly) Probably being a little anal on that but that is me.
Don’t understand the second part. You CAN use 6X on 30’s, I do, but I use Orvis Flouro. What ever loop works for you, this one is just a breeze for me, and my clients like it[;)]
Fg wrote:
Make a loop in the tippet just big enough to feed the fly through, then feed the fly through that loop twice. Put the EYE of the fly in the middle of the LOOP and slowly tighten. As soon as it looks like it is around the eye of the fly , slide the loop off with a nail and tighten. Makes a real small loop right in front of the eye, so the knot doesn’t create a change in the flow of the fly (does that make sense, like two flies tied real close together the front fly / the knot/ causes a current for the back fly in this case THE fly) Probably being a little anal on that but that is me.
FG, My dense hard headed brain is not getting it at all. Guess I just need to come on over there and hire you for the day so you can show me the knot… well, maybe someday when I am passing in that direction.
FG wrote
What ever loop works for you, this one is just a breeze for me, and my clients like it
That is what I though you really meant.
But I read it as you were trying to say one can not tie a nonslip mono loop on a size 30 fly while using a 6 x tippet and further might be implying that you would have to use a much smaller tippet to do so. I wanted a clarification, which you did give. thank you.
Don’t charge friends, just go fish with them 
Any little excuse to get out and wet a fly.
Joni, I appreciate you thinking of me as a friend.
30’s? yeepin yimminy! How you sees dat?
Do you have any kind of ‘device’ to help you assemble that Surgeons knot when you tie a fly on to that Blond hair you callin 6X?
I can see where I’m gonna need some Magnetic Forceps for this kinda stuff now.
Man oh man, how fortunate I was to get a lot of fising in back when I had the eyes to tie anything on without the aid of magnifiers and such. Life was so good back then. And I really didn’t know how good till I could only look back to see it.
The next time I get back up to the Pacific Northwest, I’m gonna go to the Upper Snoqualimie and lay right down and waller around in that bueatiful stretch of paradise.
[sly]You lived in Paridise then. Redmond was always where I wanted to be but I wound up in West Seattle.
You bring back memories when you speak of the Swollen river, washouts and course changes from the Wet years we had.
But now, looking back, I think that River is as poplulated with fish as it ever was. That ground seems to heal itself pretty well.
The guy I fished with back in those days, has a place not far from Fall City and I dont think he fishes it any more
Another guy I fished with has a place right on the Methow River up by Twisp in N.E. Washington state.
He told me once: “I’ve thrown my last Fly Rod into that river…” meaning he kept losing the fish and he quit fishing it. Such a waste.
I was expressly forbidden to use the Company Vehicle to go fishing after work.
What a choice.
Give up a lifetime good job by using the Company vehicle for my pleasure or go all the way out to West Seattle and pick up my own vehicle. Bah!
PS: Re the Steelhead. I considered the Steelhead to be a Myth created by Les Davis to sell fishing gear. I never caught one. But I froze a lot of good fingers and toes in the effort.
Remember a fly called “Skykomish Sunrise” ?
When fishing the Sky, I caught a pretty good Rainbow on one of those bright gaudy flies. It was during the summer. Could not have been a SteelHead.
Boy, you gotta feel sorry for somebody who’s lost his memories.
Actually I lived in Woodinville. My house backed up to the 13th green of Bear Creek golf course. Got a lot more house up there for the money than here in SoCal. What I liked about the location was the accessibility to several rivers in the area. Loved the fishing not so much for the fish itself but for the wildlife that would be my company during my fishing trips. Different type of wildlife down here. The two legged ones that need to blare their radios while fishing.
What makes people think that they need to drink a lot and annoy others for the sake of having a good time. Ah yes I do miss those quiet times on the river of the NW.
I finally got them. Thaks everyone and very good looking.