Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Fly Tying => Topic started by: Ben Dixon on 07/11/2009 at 23:10
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Hi Guys,
I will be holding a fly tying night at the shop on Wenesday 25th November. All welcome, please drop me a PM if you will be coming along to give me some idea of numbers.
Cheers
Ben
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I will be there unless theres some disaster, probably Kev & Stuart too
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I'll be applying for a late pass and hope to be there.
can't wait
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Ben
See you then
Irvine
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What time Ben?
Thats pipe band practice night, but would be finished by about 8.30....
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Ben
Will be there if I'm not offshore.
Matt
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Im in :z16 Hope you lot are prepared for me to pick your brains! :z7
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what are you tying ben or is it an open night
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Will kik off at about 18:45, try to be there for about 18:30. Anyone who cannot make that time, please give me a buzz at the shop on 01330 824 319 and I will give you a note of my mobile number so you can call me to let you in!
I will do a few streamers that have scored well for me in the past few seasons and will talk a bit about fishing them. If I can fisn a less terminally ill laptop before then I may have a PP presentation somwhere.
You can being some kit if you want but some of the patterns are quite lengthy ties.
Anyone who has any streamer patterns that they would like to share is welcome to tie too, just bring some gear as I will be taking the bare minimum. Will have plenty of rabbit, deer hair, fritz, lead, sculpin wool & tungsten, if your pattern involves anything a bit more refined then you will need to bring it along!!
Cheers
Ben
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Can you confirm it's a quarter to seven start?
Cheers
Matt
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Hi Matt,
Will be an 18:45 start but try to be there for about 18:30, gives me time to get everyone upstairs and get locked up.
Cheers
Ben
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thanks Ben, I wasn't trying to be a pedant..
see you on wednesday I will confirm numbers tomorrow.
matt
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Looking 4ward 2 it :z16
Iain
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If there is still space Ben :z8, i would love to come along again :wink
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If there is still space Ben :z8, i would love to come along again :wink
Yes, will be space Baz.
Cheers
Ben
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I'll be there with two guys. Thanks again Ben.
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Thanks Ben, Had a good night, tyed an orange conehead black wolly bugger first thing this morning so roll on March to give it a dunking. Hopefully have a bash at the zoo cougar tonight as it looked really fishy. Good seeing everyone look forward to the next one.
Michael
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Thanks again for last night Ben, another really enjoyable night.
Again i took home a few new ideas to play about with and was great to put some faces to forum members :z18
Look forward to the next one :wink
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Great night and great to hear about the tactics involved too.
Thanks Ben.
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thanks ben
it was an intresting night.ive been looking into streamers for a while but had no joy.
looking forward to the next night
stuart
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Another great evening, thanks Ben,
Always good to put faces to names,
Got a good few ideas & materials for streamer patterns but was busy last night tying new nymphs on Dihatsu hooks to replace the ones tied on Knapeks :mad
Looking forward to some pic's of streamers soon.
Iain
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Thanks to Ben for another great evening out. It gave me a lot to think about and some new patterns to try.
Hmmm now I need a fast sinking shooting head, running line, another spool for the reel - will it ever end :z12
Good to meet some new folks and put faces to names to the forum.
Here's to the next time
Irvine
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Michael,
are you going to post photo's of the streamers that you brought along last night? - they were quality ties.
Iain
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Yeah thanks Ben for a good night. Was good to meet you all. I will be tying up some wooly buggers at the weekend!
Will def be at the next one. :z16
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Sorry I couldn't make it again this time Ben :oops hopefully next time :wink
Good to see that everybody enjoyed themselves :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Iain,
I will try post some pics of the flies and do a SBS soon, still waiting on the docking staition of the camera coming back ,wife left it in South Africa when she was over getting training a mth or so ago it hasnt turned up yet, will splurge on a new one if it doesnt appear in a week or so. It will be good try a sbs show you guys how not to tie a zoo cougar as last nights attempts didnt look like Bens thats for sure, Will use the rolly poly retrieve with them so fish wont have time to laugh at them to much.
Michael
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Many thanks to all who attended, pleased you found it worthwhile. Not sure when the next one will be, I have sort of done my river trout fly boxes now but I am sure that I can put something together :grin
I think we should get Peter & Kevin deer hair addiction Muir to do a night on patterns for loch fishing or maybe Hamish will do a night on dapping flies next time he is in the area.
Cheers
Ben
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It will be good try a sbs show you guys how not to tie a zoo cougar as last nights attempts didnt look like Bens thats for sure,
Michael
Hi Michael,
Is it the head you are struggling with? Is the hardest part of the fly. The hair needs to be packed really tight and use a lot of it, I did not use enough on the fly I tied and when looking at it again today the head could have been more solid. The reason that I tie in bunches of hair around the hook rather than tying in a bunch and spinning around the hook is that I find I can get a more dense head using the bunches, same goes for the conehead Madonna and anything I tie with sculpin wool. GSP really helps as you can hammer own on it.
Cheers
Ben
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Many thanks to all who attended, pleased you found it worthwhile. Not sure when the next one will be, I have sort of done my river trout fly boxes now but I am sure that I can put something together :grin
I think we should get Peter & Kevin deer hair addiction Muir to do a night on patterns for loch fishing or maybe Hamish will do a night on dapping flies next time he is in the area.
Cheers
Ben
Any time Ben
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Ben what was the material you used for the head on the Butt Monkey? its escpaed my memory.
cheers
Matt
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Hi Matt,
It is Scuplin wool, can get it from Lakeland or Orvis. Comes in a range of colours, many use white and colour with markers as appropriate or you can tie in white or cream on the underside then use whatever on the top to make the fly more realistic. I'm lazy so use one colour for the entire head.
Cheers
Ben
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Hi Folkms,
Just wanted to pass on my belated thanks to Ben for a very instructive evening (and yes I am another one looking through the tackle shops for shooting heads, etc) and to everyone else for the craic! :z16 Its not always you get such a relaxed learning atmosphere amongst blokes.
Hope to meet up with youse again and maybe a wet a fly or two, too.
All the very best,
Andy
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Hi Andy,
Pleased you enjoyed it, thanks for coming along Nethy Bridge is a hell of a drive!!
Cheers
Ben