Gents,
I caught my first ever fish with a fly I tied!
i can't believe it actually works.
thanks for all the help in learning to tie.
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Gents,
I caught my first ever fish with a fly I tied!
i can't believe it actually works.
thanks for all the help in learning to tie.
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Really cool right? Big congrats!Skip
OUTSTANDING!! Good Job!
That's awesome. Congrats
Nothing like that feeling congrats!
Nice when you catch on your own - and better than any store bought!!
Congratulations. You will find they work better because not many people use feather jigs anymore.
OUTSTANDING!!!
It only get worse now!
X2!Quote:
Originally Posted by plateboater
Unspeakable joy in fooling them on something you handcrafted. It is you who is hooked now. Congratulations my friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by brettw
I am no longer chained to the minnow bucket
Very nice Brett!! Congratulations, no turning back now.
Sounds like you are hooked. Good job. I think it is a jig and not a fly you tied.
I need my own space to tie now.
the dining room table ain't going to cut it
I want to leave my stuff out all the time
I started out on the table then I had a window sill. Fifty years later I have my own flytying room. Im just warning you what can happen. Good luck and keep tying. I will be ona3 day trip for crappie this weekend so I hope to get few like your picture.
It is always great to catch fish on something that you made with your own two hands.
yep ,it is a black hole.once you realize you can make anything you want there are never enough hooks jigs feathers chenilles threads paints glues tools and finally space etcQuote:
Originally Posted by plateboater
or time...
but if I could leave all my stuff out all the time, it would only take a minute or 3 to make a jig that worked well, but I lost during the day.
Dedicated space you also have to think about it if you have pets! Dogs love feathers!!!!!!!!LOL
No kidding
I found out the hard way
We all have!!!!LOL it's a real pain cleaning up a pheasant tail that's been played with by a lab!!!!!!!!!! Have a buddy on a fly board who lost 3 whiting capes when his brit decided to eat them. Expensive lesson!!!!!!
Why do they do that
smell like game?
Heck a pheasant tail is nothing at all, I had a full Rooster Skin of high quality in Barred Ginger and my dog got it off the table I had it on and started in. Thankfully I caught him before he ruined it all (mostly got wing), but he definitely got me to cut the bird into the cape and saddle. Thankfully he mostly got feathers I didn't care about anyway, but a little more time and I would have lost a $200 bird. Anything that had a skin had his attention big time so had to keep buck tails and everything else away from that dog. I hated losing that dog even though he made me be extra careful with my materials. He passed away last year or so and thankfully the other one that is still going has not shown the same lust for my skins. See picture below which is not all that great, but soon after he got this and started in and I think got it from right were it was sitting in this pic!
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04841.jpg
My Siamese cats are great hunters, geckos, birds, calf tails, my feathers. They try to get them whenever I leave the door open to my fly tying room.