Thanks, Neville and Tony, for the complements! It isn't the most realistic or fanciest fly I've tied, by a long shot, but it does show some progress being made. I hope to get back to tying realistic flies in the weeks ahead. Coupled with traditional Scottish Lough flies, they're my "specialty" of sorts. Or at least they're what I used to be able to tie fairly well... Not sure what I want to tie in that regard to get back in that realm - may start simple and do some Oliver Edwards flies. We'll see how it goes. For now, I'm toying around with the new mayfly nymph bodies and legs from Risen Fly company - or rather, I have the materials as of a few days ago, and plan to work with them today. They look quite buggy, and coupled with Flymen Fishing Company's extended shanks, I'm going to try my hand at some jointed extended body mayflies. Always challenging myself with these eyes of mine, I suppose... it's the only way I'll get back to where I once was, I figure. Like learning to ride a bike all over again, but it'll happen, I'm confident of it.
On a different note, I was all excited and ready to go to the international fly tying symposium this last weekend, and then my wife realized it was 2.5hrs drive time each way instead of the roughly 2hrs to Somersett NJ (sp?), and for whatever reason that extra half hour each way was a thorn in her side for driving me out there (I'm not allowed to drive with the epilepsy), so she got cold feet so to speak and cancelled the trek out there for the day. The Edison show is a maybe for January - if I do go, we'll get a hotel room for the weekend - but the lancaster show is a certainty. At least I can get in some show or another this season :) Sorry if I missed seeing anyone at the tying symposium last weekend. I hope everyone had wonderful holidays / Thanksgivings, Tight wraps, -Pete On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 8:17 PM 'Anthony Spezio' via VFB Mail < [email protected]> wrote: > Good to hear that and that is a real neat tye. > Arkansas Tony > > On Friday, November 23, 2018, 6:35:13 PM CST, Neville Gosling < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > It looks pretty good to me Pete! Well done! > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > > On Nov 23, 2018, at 14:56, Pete Gramp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wanted to challenge myself, with my eyes starting to begin to focus a tad > more with me getting my blood sugar numbers lower (140s this week, which is > supposedly quite good considering I started at 1085 with the DKA), so I > tied the attached fly - a size 16 artificial peacock quill bodied > klinkhammer. Post is made of Fly Tyer's Dungeon material called "Water > Silk" - wanted to try it out, and it is ok but quite "poofy" to work with > for the purpose of a post. Please excuse the hackle being undersized... it > was a goof from poor lighting more than poor eyesight... and being golden > badger, a pale one at that, it looks even smaller than it truly is... but > considering I could barely focus to tie a size 12 a few weeks ago, I'd say > I'm progressing fairly well. Tied on my HMH TRV vise - love this vise, it > is truly my dream vise, even if the jaws are a knock-off of the LAW vise > jaws (personal opinion). I view that as a plus, personally. > Picture attached, and hopefully I figured out how to resize it > adequately... sorry if I didn't do it correctly. > -Pete > <Pete's Fly.jpg> > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
