BilletHead Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Well, lookie there Daryk. Satisfaction will just get better and better as you start catching fish on those. They will work just fine. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsfolly Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 @Daryk Campbell Sr those nymphs look great buddy! Great job. Now we need to see the fish you will catch with them. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryk Campbell Sr Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie. I will have to work on this one. I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be. One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue. Oops. BilletHead, Johnsfolly and Quillback 3 Money is just ink and paper, worthless until it switches hands, and worthless again until the next transaction. (me) I am the master of my unspoken words, and the slave to those that should have remained unsaid. (unknown) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 7 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said: Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie. I will have to work on this one. I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be. One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue. Oops. My experience is, the more tore up a fly gets the better it works sometimes. I believe it was Leonard Wright who wrote about old time European fly fishers who loaned out newly tied flies to be fished by someone else and then brought back to them to use. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 7 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said: Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie. I will have to work on this one. I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be. One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue. Oops. OOps will happen but less and less as you go forward. I still oops. Another tip less is more in tying. We as tyers sometimes tend to overdress. Daryk Campbell Sr, kjackson and Nick Adams 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjackson Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 9 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said: Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie. I will have to work on this one. I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be. One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue. Oops. I used a .45 ACP shell for years as a hair stacker then graduated to a .45 Long Colt. Both worked better (as I recall) than the "real" hair stacker I eventually bought. It's either that or my tying skills need serious refreshing...which, thinking about it, is the case. Daryk Campbell Sr and BilletHead 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 22 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said: . Oops. I keep a single edge razor blade and a naked utility knife blade on a magnet at my vise base, when I bollix a tie up, I slice and scrape until the hook is clean and bare then start over. Some mistakes can be fixed with scissors like turning a dry into a nymph, but others require full overhaul. I have never owned a real hair stacker, having learned to use fingers and palm before I ever saw a stacker. I have improvised spent brass, various tubing, caps from markers and such and I've bought at least a dozen tubes of chapstick/lipbalm with the express intent of making a stacker and never did. Sitting here now looking at a bottle spray eye glass lens cleaner and thinking the top cover of the spray pump would work. Honestly, I just don't like working with deer hair and the hair wing flies aren't "all that" in my opinion. Sure it's a skill one should have, but it's not one that I use often. lipbalm stacker from web Daryk Campbell Sr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryk Campbell Sr Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 Tonight was Clouser Minnow. BilletHead, tjm, Johnsfolly and 1 other 4 Money is just ink and paper, worthless until it switches hands, and worthless again until the next transaction. (me) I am the master of my unspoken words, and the slave to those that should have remained unsaid. (unknown) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 You're definitely gettin' there. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Hot dang Daryk! well done. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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