They all start out as PhuzzieNotions [R&D ideas rattling around in Pete Gray's noggin and looking for a place to happen]... and then materialize into PharSidePhlyz. Saltwater flies can all start here and become almost anything.
It's been a while and winter has driven me inside... 'playin' around with the camera as I made my way up a hook shank...
My basic philosophy it to design a fly to suit my needs and compose as I go...
When I look at someone else's fly for the first time, I tend to visually de-construct it and then try to figure out the original tying steps...
I have my "favourites" and they seem to form the basis [foundations] for follow-on notions...
This is one of my favourite fly foundations... easily downsized... easily modified... no rules... just a progression of basic steps...
In an attempt to achieve a higher level of "self importance" I prefer to "categorize" my flyz...
They all start out as PhuzzieNotions [R&D ideas rattling around in my noggin and looking for a place to happen]... and then materialize into PharSidePhlyz [as in the PharSide of the canal]...
Then they are designated BigEyez... Tubez... DualTubez... Shrimpz... whatever...
This particular exercise falls under Naturalz [predominately phur n'pheathers with spartan application of phlash]... My FAVOURITE catagory!
SinThetics would be "plastic" and acrylics... evil but very tempting and seductive... and so on and so on...
Anyway...
I'll have to start wearing my "official" MAKO ADVISORY STAFF fishing shirt 'cause, if I'm going to be impotent, I gotta dress impotent!
But I digress...
My techniques are refined basics ['been doing this for a LONG time]...
My technical eye is self trained and perhaps even gifted...
My former life [AVIATION] encourages attention to detail...
I have developed good control over the thread and material... and I combine and overlap these basic techniques to obtain a desired effect and overall insinuation...
An artist has a pallet and canvas... I've got my phur, pheathers n'phlash... 'just looking for an unsuspecting hook [or tube] to hang 'em on...
Colours are thoughtfully blended as material is added and subtle flash is lightly infused so as not to overwhelm...
My goal is to create an illusion with inherent motion... properly selected and applied materials speak for themselves... The FISH always have the last word!
By nature I am a lazy animal with time tested convenient habits that simplify my daily activities...
After years of wandering around with open eyes, I've arrived at my foundation station...
'trains mostly depart from the same tracks and are customized to suit their intended destination...
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This "NATURAL" exercise typically kicks off with the same starter steps to get me going and then follow-on steps divert to suit my current needs and intended goals...
Call them starter recipes... even though I tend to not rely on written recipes... they are, after all "PhuzzieNotions"...
This is supposed to FUN [or should that be phun?!]...
Sofarsogood!
Cheers
Pete on the PharSide of the Canal... das People's Republik of Taxachusetts
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