[Matt Henderson]

I'll be there with two guys.  Thanks again Ben.

[Michael Buchan]

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

[Barry Robertson]

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 
Look forward to the next one 

[Matt Henderson]

Great night and great to hear about the tactics involved too. 

Thanks Ben.

[Stuart Smith]

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

[Iain Goolager]

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

Looking forward to some pic's of streamers soon.

Iain

[Irvine Ross]

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

Good to meet some new folks and put faces to names to the forum.

Here's to the next time

Irvine

[Iain Goolager]

Michael,

are you going to post photo's of the streamers that you brought along last night? - they were quality ties.


Iain

[Paul Garrigan]

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.

[Mike Barrio]

Sorry I couldn't make it again this time Ben hopefully next time

Good to see that everybody enjoyed themselves

Cheers
Mike

[Michael Buchan]

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

[Ben Dixon]

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 

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

[Ben Dixon]

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

[Peter McCallum]

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 

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

[Matt Henderson]

Ben what was the material you used for the head on the Butt Monkey? its escpaed my memory.

cheers

Matt