I agree DonO Those hooks are a trip! I am still not happy with what I have been getting. The whip from the tippet leaves to much bulk for me yet. I am going try a very fine clear nylon sewing thread. Tied it with a strand of peacock body feather with a red thread rid. I did like the look of that. Maybe I should just tie it without the tippet and put in a shadow box.
Bob Haering [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Ordes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: DonO's microscopic flies > Re: DonO's microscopic fliesHi guys, > Just got in & got my mail. Thanks, Dan, for the wonderful compliment. > My back doesn't hurt quite so bad after reading your kind words. O that it > were true. > > You've really hit the nail on the head, though. No one really needs to > do better than will actually serve the purpose intended, especially as in > something like fishing. But in flyfishing and in flytying there IS > something more. Like Shakespeare, some (but not all) seek that special > experience that comes only from our best efforts achieving an elevated > result. Sometimes, as in flyfishing, the moment may be alone, with no one > to witness. Sometimes the moment can be shared with and appreciated by > others. Satisfaction, like beauty, in in the "eye" of the beholder. Dr. > Dimento (oops! 2nd person) isn't satisfied until he pushes the envelope so > far beyond uselessness that no one else even wants to go there. But that's > OK. I'm having fun, warped and twisted sometimes as it is. And if you > enjoy looking at what I did, then we're both having fun. Win/win. If you > seek an elevated form of perfection, though, watch Marv Nolte tie a salmon > fly- a world champion at work. > > Sometimes elevated achievement comes by way of diversity, also. That's > why I love this list. I've been on it for many years and am on no other. > Everyone who contributes AT ALL adds to that diversity. Byard makes sure > the diversity doesn't get out of hand, but otherwise, the list would become > like the boredom of tying a thousand humpies, and would get old fast. > Since we are an extended "family", we do need to consider others, both their > feelings and their time- and their values. For me, a hundred "me too's" are > interesting because I see who's around the dinner table, so to speak. But I > also understand that others don't care unless they're there to eat. So > Byard sits at the head of the table and calls the shots. It's his > Shakespearian "play", and it's truly a compliment for him that so many good > people, and some world class tiers, have been in his "theater" for so many > years. > > Just my 1 cent worth > Thanks again > DonO > > PS Jimi, loved your post. I don't care what your wife says about you, > you're OK! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan/Sal Wheaton > Subject: [VFB] Re: DonO's microscopic flies > > Dan Crowe asked re DonO's midge: > >How do you tie something that small, and how do you fish it? > > Samuel Johnson once said of Shakespeare's plays, "No one but a blockhead > ever wrote for any reason other than money." To which I respond, "That may > be so, but that's no explanation for why he thought he had to make his plays > that good." > Dan > >
