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I have 5 new tubes

I have 5 new tubes + 1 that is in use of Overton's that I got back in 1997 (not selling BTW, my nephews are learning to tie and it will go to them when I am no longer able to). Long story short is that I was in the right place at the right time when a shop was reorganizing some older inventory. I got the whole lot for less than $10. There has been nothing that even comes close to this stuff (at least not the stuff that is commercially available). The smell of a new tube of Overton's has a slightly pine resin smell to it. Not at all overpowering but enough so that there is no doubt that at least one of the ingredients has some pine derivative. Prior to scoring the Overton's I tried the toilet bowl rings melted down and that was not even close. It made a mess. My wife was not happy. This recipe looks very promising even though I have a couple lifetimes worth of wax. In a thread a read a while back someone mentioned castor oil as one of the parts to Overton's. I am surprised that no one has tried to crack Overton's recipe by mass spec or GC.

Cool! I'll be there

Cool! I'll be there next week! can't wait
Thanks for the article
Nick

I would like to cont

I would like to contact George Roberts to have him help me improve my fly casting, I Live in eastern Massachusetts and I beleive George does also. Please forward this request to him.

Thank You

Cant print picture o

Cant print picture of bench

I've started tying t

I've started tying these "baby buggers" with rockchuck tail fur for the tails, makes for some interesting looking patterns, and the fish love them.

I Just went Fishing

I Just went Fishing in the river Kyll (Kyllburg Germany) and experianced that fish would only rise on Yellow tied CDC flies. I only had a Yellow thread and brown CDC and tied me a few sedges with that material, that resulted in lots of takes of little trout and little chub. I just bought this book, hope it 'll help me next time....

Can i buy these anyw

Can i buy these anywhere online??? i do not tie my own flies, and would like to purchase some of these

Benjamin,

It's be

Benjamin,

It's been a while since I have heard from Jim, and it's probably unlikely that he sees your comment. He has never submitted the pattern description for the foam emerger in the picture, so you might have to look elsewhere for such a pattern.

Martin

Hello! I saw the pic

Hello! I saw the picture of your hex foam emerger, but have not seen the recipe anywhere. Would you please email it to me?

Thanks!

Benjamin
West Bend, WI

You get a gold star

You get a gold star from me!

UV FREE ZONE... Tuffleye FLEX...

because Striped predators "NEVER" eat crabs... [well, maybe sometimes]
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'sparsely applied over porous mylar tubing... 'slightly negative ballast for a slow sinking sensation...
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Forty years ago the

Forty years ago the oldtimers in the Harman, WV area used three wets at a time on short leaders. Favorites were gray hackle peacock, gray hackle yellow, queen of the waters, cowdung, and hare's ear. My dad's was the royal coachman and mine, the coachman which I've taken browns of three pounds on.

They a super indicat

They a super indicator. They are fun and easy to make.They are very good to use for bluegill fishing as well.
Thank you so much.

Hope this helps

Eddie,

You ask:
1. How do I store my (9 foot, 2-piece) fly rod once I have tied all my knots - leader, tippet, etc?

What most fly anglers do is: cut off the fly close to the hook eye and put it in your fly box, wind the whole line, leader and tippet through the guides onto the reel leaving a small tag to grab the next time you use it and then take off the reel and break down the rod. Store the reel with the line on it in its pouch and the rod in a rod bag and maybe a tube.

2. If I take my fly rod apart, how do you suggest that I keep the lines from tangling (again, leader, tippet, etc)?

Unless you are moving a short distance from fishing spot to fishing spot, I strongly urge you to do as described above. A rod with all line mounted is difficult to handle and even though you only have one line, you can easily tangle anyway. For transport you might leave the line in the guides and the fly in a hook rest or one of the guides, and take the rod apart in two halves, "fold" them and lay them side by side. If you are careful and maybe tighten the line you might avoid tangles and can transport the rod in a trunk or on the back seat. Personally I prefer transporting the rod on the outside of the car in a rod holder, but that's another story.

Hope this helps.

Martin

I have just tied thi

I have just tied this fly, I am not the best fly tier in the world but it was pretty easy.
I would expect this fly to do well on a tailing bonefish.

thanks for the recip

thanks for the recipe. Apparently, no one here has had to make things for themselves in order to save costs! You can buy a small aluminium pan for less than a dollar at the grocery store to heat things in. I use old Old Spice stick deodardant tubes that were ready to be tossed in the garbage. I keep them all now, since they clean up nicely with hot soapy water, cost $0.00 . You can buy in bulk on the internet for the bees wax and bow rosin. My total cost was about $4.00 per tube which provides about 5 times the volume of tacky wax. I made enough for 4 tubes and gave three of them out to fly tying friends. That was 4 years ago and I still have about 60% in my tube, and I ty about 600 dubbed bodies per years. The friends I gave them to still have about 3/4 of their tubes left. Making your own wax may seem like overkill, but so does tying your own flies if that is the way you look at things!

Great article. very informative.

Martin,
Great article. very informative. I will bookmark this page for future reference.
2 questions that I can't seem to find answers for -

1. How do I store my (9 foot, 2-piece) fly rod once I have tied all my knots - leader, tippet, etc?
2. If I take my fly rod apart, how do you suggest that I keep the lines from tangling (again, leader, tippet, etc)?

Thanks for a most valuable article! I will go forward with a lot less apprehension (this will be my first time fly fishing).

the phocus group approves...

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I'm new at this, how

I'm new at this, how to these springs work?

I saw a similar patt

I saw a similar pattern in a book about Irish sea trout fishing back in the seventies. the first year or two i tied in the tail and body, however just winding a hackle tied by the butt forward to the eye (over the thread base) gives the same profile. i've tried several colors, my favorite is a dark dun, though white and black work well also. i tie them on #12 dry fly hooks. if i was restricted to a single pattern this would be it. the pattern has taken just about every species of fish i've run into. without weight it fishes dry or wet. it really is an amazing pattern.