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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #2

  Can we get the proposed name so that we may evaluate it?
  
  To answer your question though, most flies tied today are variants. I don't think you would be violating some hidden etiquette rule by naming a variant.
  
  "Double tungsten adams emerger." Something like that.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #3

  Don't know. But I wasn't thinking a descriptive name or something eponymous.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #4

  Something like this.
  
  http://www.flyguysoutfitting.com/tutorials/nymphs/stud

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #5

  Or this bad boy. One of my faves:
  
  http://www.flyguysoutfitting.com/tutorials/nymphs/red-devil

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• The Hinge Senior Member Posts: 162 Senior Member

  August 2011 #6

  Monkey Hammer

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• bakerloo Banned Posts: 980 Senior Member

  August 2011 #7

  Monkey Hummer

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #8

  bakerloo wrote: »

  Monkey Hummer

  
  It's been 30 years...

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #9

  Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program...
  
  It's a mayfly dun pattern using no hackle - kind of spurred on by the lack of available and affordable hackle these days.
  
  I was maybe thinking of calling it the Featherhead Dun or maybe naming it after my neighborhood - the HP Dun. If the Catskills can have a pattern, why not Hyde Park?

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #10

  blech. How about "the Cabrini-green?" Now there's a fly name.

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• Brian D. Senior Member Posts: 4,011 Senior Member

  August 2011 #11

  I am not much of a fly tier... tyer... um, I'm not very good at tying flies, but I invented one pattern of my very own just so I could name it the Troutf'cker Midge. I'm waiting for someone on the river to ask me what I'm catching 'em on, so I can respond, "Troutf'cker!"
  
  Next, I intend to create a streamer named the None of Your **** Business Minnow.
  
  bd

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #12

  sherb wrote: »

  blech. How about "the Cabrini-green?" Now there's a fly name.

  
  I like it.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #13

  The Hinge wrote: »

  Monkey Hammer

  
  I approve this

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• George K Super Moderator Posts: 11,653 Senior Member

  August 2011 #14

  Steven wrote: »

  Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program...
  
  It's a mayfly dun pattern using no hackle - kind of spurred on by the lack of available and affordable hackle these days.
  
  I was maybe thinking of calling it the Featherhead Dun or maybe naming it after my neighborhood - the HP Dun. If the Catskills can have a pattern, why not Hyde Park?

  
  Hmm, consider this - "featherhead" + Illinois = Blago-Braun.
  
  This a gratis, royalty-free gift from the other side of the aisle.

  The GOP big tent now is the size of a pup tent, its floor splattered with guano.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #15

  Steven wrote: »

  Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program...
  
  It's a mayfly dun pattern using no hackle - kind of spurred on by the lack of available and affordable hackle these days.
  
  I was maybe thinking of calling it the Featherhead Dun or maybe naming it after my neighborhood - the HP Dun. If the Catskills can have a pattern, why not Hyde Park?

  
  
  If it's using CDC something French sounds good. Like the "Munch Merde Fly."

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• dryflie Senior Member Posts: 1,442 Senior Member

  August 2011 #16

  Go for it Steven. I did it 20 years ago when shown a Caddis Emerger in Maine by a women named Nancy Pray. It happened to be a variation of a local fly called the WB Caddis but with different materials.
  
  In any event I named it Nancy's Prayer. See http://www.danica.com/flytier/berickson/nancys_prayer.htm
  
  Used several last week on the Missouri to catch some real nice Rainbows.

  “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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• ouzelpro Senior Member Posts: 5,361 Senior Member

  August 2011 #17

  How about: Waiting For This Stupid Hair Fad to End? It has an historical tab, tied to an era that should be done, but just keeps going.

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• Shawn C. Senior Member Posts: 7,027 Senior Member

  August 2011 #18

  ouzelpro wrote: »

  How about: Waiting For This Stupid Hair Fad to End? It has an historical tab, tied to an era that should be done, but just keeps going.

  In 6 months it will be over, just like most fads.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #19

  I think I'm canning the idea. I couldn't tie it in a size 18.
  
  I'm not interested in any mayfly dun that I can't tie easily in size 10 down to 18.

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• Brian D. Senior Member Posts: 4,011 Senior Member

  August 2011 #20

  You don't have one of those big magnifying glasses on your tying desk?
  
  bd

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #21

  3X cheaters
  
  Couldn't really fit in on the hook easily.

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• Brian D. Senior Member Posts: 4,011 Senior Member

  August 2011 #22

  I had to start wearing reading glasses while tying flies a couple years ago. That was a sad day.
  
  bd

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• ricinus Senior Member Posts: 6,210 Senior Member

  August 2011 #23

  I'm starting to think I need 3x cheaters PLUS a lighted magnifier. Such is aging I guess.
  
  Mike

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

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2011 #24

  Brian D. wrote: »

  I had to start wearing reading glasses while tying flies a couple years ago. That was a sad day.
  
  bd

  
  I woke up one day and couldn't read my Blackberry. I can't even read my computer screen any more without them.

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• AboutFlyFishing Junior Member Posts: 4 Junior Member

  September 2011 #25

  Steven wrote: »

  I woke up one day and couldn't read my Blackberry. I can't even read my computer screen any more without them.

  
  My eyesight seems to be diminishing at about the same rate as my increase in consumption of Bushmills.

  About Fly Fishing

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  November 2011 #26

  I guess I should feel good that I only need +1.00 for general use and +2.00 for low light reading fly tying and tying on a fly

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• George K Super Moderator Posts: 11,653 Senior Member

  November 2011 #27

  These look a little silly, but are great for tying and wrapping rods.
  
  http://www.mageyes.com/Hobby.htm
  
  As with many other items, they cost a lot less at craft/hobby stores than in fly shops.

  The GOP big tent now is the size of a pup tent, its floor splattered with guano.

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