"Mark Bowen" wrote:

"chas" wrote in message
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Just wondering if anybody is still tying, maybe you're all out fishing?

Hope so.

Chas
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I've been tyin' up hideously ugly damsel/dragon fly patterns (palmer hackle
around the body) for our small trout (12 to 18 inchers), and tthey are
working pretty dang well!

Any word on your rod? Hope ya get it back. I just sold a rod to a fishin'
buddy the other week--only second rod I have ever sold, I like to keep rods
whether or not I use them. Naturally, he broke the tip-top off the very next
day, after a few hours of fishin'!

Take care,
Op


Thanks OP, but the rod is still in someone else's hands. Maybe the park
service has it, and it will eventually show up, but I'm short on confidence.

I have a favorite dansel pattern for our small 16-22 inch rainbows. The water
is too warm now, but a month ago it was pretty good in the eastern Washington
lakes. I use an extended body of blue foam, or blue antron yarn, 4 small
grizzly hackles tied to lie flat, two forward, two back, and a grizzly hackle
wrapped between them for body and legs.

Chas
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