Great fly tying weather

[Abalone]

I have been catching up on my Fly tying what about you guys ?

I am wonder where Denny gets all his fly tying materials ?
He has colors and quality materials I just can't seem to find locally. I am thinking when the sportsmans show gets here I'll be doing some stocking up.

Water Water everywhere and not a drop to fish.

[Meskel]

This is my first winter of tying so I am learning a few lessons as I go. The biggest lesson is that you can never have too many hooks. I always seam to be running out. What I need to do is go to the store and just buy like 500 hundred of them at a time of various sizes so that I can diversify my fly portfolio a little more.

Next lesson is that I need to remember and keep track of what bugs worked well throughout the year so that I have a list of what to tie. Im sure that I can’t really go through as many Addams’ flies as I have tied this year. Yet I want to keep tying and just need to come up with what. (and actually be able to tie it)

Final lesson I have quickly learned is that when tying a size 20 plus fly a magnifying device would be helpful. ( all productions of said sized fly are on hold till I get a magnifying device) :laugh:

Meskel

[derbyshc]

I'm up to tying a bunch of flies for the swaps I've involved with on this board and on another site. I'll definitely be tying today and this weekend. I'm headed up to the North Fork of the Umpqua on Friday. I'll see if I can interest any winter steelhead in some swap flies. I'll post a report when I get back Friday. It certainly is a good time to fill up the fly boxes.

[AndyK]

With most of the rivers approaching flood stage, what else is there to do? :shrug:

[Mark Vickers]

Yup, I spent a big chunk of yesterday evening spinning thread, stacking hair, and stripping hackles. I need to run by River City and pick up some more supplies this afternoon.

I've pretty much written my piece for the Ifish Tyathon. I just need to take the photos to go along with it.

[Steve L.]

I need a few things from River City too, but I'm afraid to go while Don has the TFO package on sale :bigshock:. I should probably just bite the bullet and get a few more boxes to fill while I'm there. I've been tying and everything is packed.

[MattyFlavor]

Hey Meskel...
I can appreciate your plight of the Adams. As a beginner myself, might I recommend the pheasant tail nymph? Plenty of variation possibility (with and without gold thread, beads of different sizes, lead-no-lead, etc.) and it's one of those flies that works just about anywhere, any time...

I think that there's probably a core of aboout 6-10 go-to flies (within the Adams, Caddis and a couple in the Go-to-nymphs Families) that I need to learn and then I can pretty much fill up every available piece of foam in my boxes with these flies, in varying sizes, and know that I will do quite well in 2006.

-MF-