A PTN with a flash back the whole length of the fly. Also vary it with ostrich
herl in place of peacock herl.Rick
From: Pete Gramp <pete.gr...@gmail.com>
To: "vfb-mail@googlegroups.com" <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 10:29 AM
Subject: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns
So my not-so-brilliant body decided it would play a trick on me and would
suddenly go into what the hospital staff called "DKA" - Diabetic ketoacidosis -
which essentially means that while the blood sugar levels of a "normal" person
are in the 70 to 100 range, mine were 1085 when I was admitted to the hospital
and rushed immediately to the Emergency Room and then passed to the Intensive
Care Unit. Two weeks later, and 43 pounds lighter (supposedly from my organs
eating themselves, and the muscles around them, and not from fat loss), I was
discharged from the hospital and told I'm now a diabetic in the "severely
diabetic" category with blood sugar levels still in the upper 200's to lower
300's. Still on short term disability and off work, until they get my blood
sugars back down in the more "normal" range.
Biggest pain in the neck, besides my general weakness, is that my eyesight
comes and goes with the blood sugar levels. I'm told this will get back to
normal when my blood sugar levels return back to more reasonable levels, but
for the time being, I am struggling with tying anything smaller than size 12.
and to be honest, size 12 is kind of a challenge too, but I refuse to go much
larger than that.
Does anyone have any relatively simple fly patterns that they could send me
off-list for some size 12 flies (dries or nymphs preferred please, as I have
plenty of soft hackles and streamers and I don't have much opportunity for use
of salt or salmon and my eyes aren't up for traditional wets or full dressed
atlantic salmon or spey, etc.)? I'm not looking for the simplicity of a san
juan worm, but then again, I'm not much better than that with my eyesight right
now... perhaps it is wishful thinking that I say I wish for something a bit
more complex than that... but I desire a challenge.
Thanks for any suggestions in the way of patterns you can send off-list!-Pete--
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