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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2014 #2

  First Rich, now Delp.
  
  It's the Zombie Apocalypse.

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• tim_s Senior Member Posts: 2,009 Senior Member

  March 2014 #3

  he's alive and well

  Fly Fishing in Maine - www.flyfishinginmaine.com

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• Auntie Em Senior Member Posts: 159 Senior Member

  March 2014 #4

  See what happens when you leave the door unlocked?
  
  *hi, Mike!*

  Lord ... give me patience, and give it to me RIGHT NOW!!!!!

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• magalloway Senior Member Posts: 1,034 Senior Member

  March 2014 #5

  Hey, Mike--I haven't forgotten you; I'm still trying to learn to tie reasonable hopper legs, but getting there.
  
  Jim

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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2014 #6

  This is almost on topic.
  
  Jim, have you seen the vid over on Hans Weilenmann's site?
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_tB4BE83A

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• Auntie Em Senior Member Posts: 159 Senior Member

  March 2014 #7

  Jim, Hans' site is fantastic in its simplicity! Wish I'd known it was available before the tying contest at Cabelas that had the Daves' Hopper as one of the mandatory tyes!! I did learn, before hand, how to tye knots-for-knees using a knit-picker (thank goodness for Michaels Crafts!) to make the multi-fibered leg, right and left kneed still on the quill. No, I didn't place in the hopper, though did take first places in the dry fly and in the freestyle! OK ... back patting done!

  Lord ... give me patience, and give it to me RIGHT NOW!!!!!

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• mdelp Member Posts: 47 Member

  March 2014 #8

  magalloway wrote: »

  Hey, Mike--I haven't forgotten you; I'm still trying to learn to tie reasonable hopper legs, but getting there.
  
  Jim

  
  4 months until hopper time up here, if ever. Still snowing. No rush.

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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2014 #9

  Auntie Em wrote: »

  No, I didn't place in the hopper, though did take first places in the dry fly and in the freestyle! OK ... back patting done!

  
  This post is worthless without pictures. Let's see 'em, Em.

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• Auntie Em Senior Member Posts: 159 Senior Member

  March 2014 #10

  Steven, you're so funny! This soooo hijacks Mikes thread! Sorry!
  
  waiting judging w/granddaughter Tristyn my most prized trophy
  
  both trophies
  
  Humpy compulsory dry fly
  
  FEB BWO freestyle sz 20
  
  Photos were taken on a phone with very shaky hands!
  
  Tristyn is my 3 mo old granddaughter who spent 15 days in PICU, on a ventilator. She was released last Friday to finish recuperation at home. She is the joy of my life.
  
  
  OK....back to your originally scheduled program now......

  Lord ... give me patience, and give it to me RIGHT NOW!!!!!

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• ricinus Senior Member Posts: 6,214 Senior Member

  March 2014 #11

  Congrats on your flies, your trophies, and your granddaughter..
  
  Mike

  My new goal in life is to become an Alter Kaker...

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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2014 #12

  Much respect for the humpy. Very tough fly to tie.

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• dryflie Senior Member Posts: 1,442 Senior Member

  March 2014 #13

  Auntie Em, your flies are great and Tristyn looks beautiful. I have a daughter 44 years old named Tristen, a slight deviation from the Tristan and Isolda an opera and story my wife and I loved way back when.
  
  Edit to add; The Humpy is fine but a size 20 BWO is awesome.

  “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” - John Kenneth Galbraith

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