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Submitted by Rich Bires on

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This is a great steelhead fly,I fish northeast ohio for steelhead,This is the top color for steelhead here,Thanks for showing this fly.

Hello Paul,

Thanks for the nice comment on the reels.
I am not using special O-rings, just a good quality from a tooling company in my own town.
The size is changing with the reel I design, so there are no special sizes, you must choose a diameter of the shaft in your design and then the diameter of the o-ring. Then you make sure that the O-rings protude only about 0.05 mm .
That is done when you make the grooves in the shaft. Buy the O-rings smaller in diameter then the shaft diameter.
Be carefull when making the grooves.

Best regards,

Tom Biesot.

Hi everyone;
I really appreciate your comments, compliments, and kind words on this pattern. I am pleased that you enjoy it, and I thank you for taking the time to comment! Cheers, everyone!

Hi Jim, Kelly, & Scott;
Thanks for your comment and appreciate of this pattern. Scott, I caught trout and salmon in the Roach River with it...try it up there! Thanks again everyone!

Hi Mike, Joel, Kelly, Armando, Steve;

Trying to cover multiple bases as I'm catching up on these comments. Thank you all for your enjoyment of the Committee. I'm pleased to see your comment, and appreciate your interest! Thanks so much, everyone!

Hello all;
John, thanks for your comment and addition of the English Ace of Spades. I was unaware of the pattern name at the time, and created my version independently.
Thanks to each of the rest of you for your comments and compliment! I appreciate it!

Submitted by Bob Iliff on

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I have a need to perform some "touch dubbing", and I found this post. As a formulation chemist, I would approach making dubbing wax a little differently. But I don't have prior experience with "Wonder Wax" to guide me, but here goes. For the stickiness, I'd start with liquid pine tar...the kind baseball players use. You can get a few ounces for $4. The toilet wax seems fine, but I might recommend thinning it with mineral oil (any drug store). Mineral oil is liquid paraffin. But maybe olive oil is just fine. Proportions? Well, I'd mix the wax and mineral oil to get the right consistency first. Then I'd add the pine tar a little at a time until I got the right tackiness. I just may do this...

There's always south-east Jutland/Jylland.
There are some pretty fantastic areas from Kolding Fjord down to Hejlsminde, Anslet, and Genner Bugt.
I have fished almost the entire stretch, over many years and would pretty much say that as long as you can find a suitable stretch of water, you'll find sea trout.

Happy hunting.

Submitted by flavien on

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hello, I like your article, I am also sea bass fisherman. I practice this technique in France in Normandy near Cherbourg with my boat.
Unfortunately, this is a fish Menasse overfishing in our waters.
hope to see you read
flavien

Submitted by Paul de Boer on

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Hello Tom,
this is a great article, the reels are looking fabuleus, the O-ring bearing design is great, can you give me some more details about the O-rings specific types and sizes.
Kind regards,
Paul

Submitted by jack wolbach on

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You forgot the best chuck pattern of all - the usual. you can see the chuck vs. snowshoe fly in 'Wyoming or Bust' on the Wyoming Fishing network. I showed the chuck pattern to Fran and his eyes lit up.

[b:60f721f65f]I was playin' around with a phuzzie notion phocused on the upcoming Spring Squid Convention...
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'not too shabby...
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when I got side-tracked by a tubular quasi Intruder idea...
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'nice colors and texture but it didn't work for me...
[img:60f721f65f]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/F70A0975.jpg[/img:60f7…]
'experienced a profound revelation moment...
'joined them together and Bada Bing... Bada Boom...
a kind'a Jurassic Squidasarus... or Squiduendo... or ???...
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'left some extra tube on the schnozola so that I can still add a cone-head if this makes it all the way to Bishop's Shoal in a few months...
The tubular notion can open up some curious doors...
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Pete,

Angry or misunderstood... I have to say that I love the fly portraits straight from the front. So much personality!

Martin

Submitted by 1737246323 on

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Hello duke,

Thanks for the nice comment on the pattern, you said I have added your pattern to my book!. Have you written a book?. I am interested what kind of book you have written? Please let me know. And I think it is great to tie flies with your grandson and to fish with him.

Best regards,

Tom .

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