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    Post your dry flies people,

 Just had to try. Broke the grizzly midge hackle twice before success. Size 20 buzzball. Orange hackle trimmed under grizzly hackle. IMG_20250217_123157483.jpgIMG_20250217_120600779.jpg

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Posted
20 minutes ago, Foghorn said:

That will be fun and interesting to fish!

            I ordered some 18 and 20 big eye dry fly hooks. Should help with tidying up the head and tying on the tippet.  

"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

Posted

I think I'd need one already tied to the tippet for a #20.  

Back when I kinda cared about chasing trout, I ran into the PR director for Daiwa who was an avid fly fisherman--Rex Gerlach.  He could tie a Royal Coachman on a #28.I wouldn't buy it, but then it was confirmed by someone else.

Posted

Dang. This 20 is small enough for me Keith. 

1 minute ago, kjackson said:

I think I'd need one already tied to the tippet for a #20.  

Back when I kinda cared about chasing trout, I ran into the PR director for Daiwa who was an avid fly fisherman--Rex Gerlach.  He could tie a Royal Coachman on a #28.I wouldn't buy it, but then it was confirmed by someone else.

 

"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

Posted
1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

            I ordered some 18 and 20 big eye dry fly hooks. Should help with tidying up the head and tying on the tippet.  

Who do you order stuff from these days?

John

Posted
1 minute ago, ness said:

Who do you order stuff from these days?

             Various places John. I just do a search on what I need and then compare prices. This is where I found the hooks I would like to try. While I ordered the hooks, I also ordered some Veevus thread. The stuff is strong for its size. I used 14/0 on the dries. Works well but wanted smaller. 16/0 is ordered and will give it a whirl. 

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"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

Posted

I tie some emerger patterns on size 18 and 20 Tiemco 2457 and 2487 hooks. That works best when I use a magnifying lamp so as not to crowd the eye of the hook. It can get challenging tying them on 6-7x on the stream.

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