DIY - CDC Tool

Here's the store bought version. It works really well in my opinion.

http://www.sfotf.ca/fly-tying/2009/7/15/cdc-caddis.html

 Recommend you buy one if you are not inclined to make one. Here is how to make one if you want.

Three T-Pins bound together with heavy tying thread. Coat thread with epoxy or super glue. In preliminary test it work just like the store bought version.

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Yarn Woolly Bugger

#10 2x Nymph Hook

10 wrap of lead

the rest is yarn.

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Tip: Flash Materials

In the next town over they open a $1 Tree store. Now I have been in them other places and have found some cool fly tying materials on the cheap. (Repurpose :) ) On this occassion the had packs of colored plastic tensile/grass. One pack was pearl It is the same stuff you use from the shops for wingcases, lateral lines, underbodies, and you get the idea. A dollar buys a lot of the stuff.

Hunter Banks is hosting the movie

, Where the Yellowstone Goes at Highland Brewery Thursday, June 28th, 2012.

Doors open at 5:00 pm, Movie at 7:00 pm.

Ticket $10 available at Hunter Banks Co. (after June 5th)

The Church Lady Nymph Variant

I know the title of this piece has you thinking of Saturday Night Live and Dana Carvey. Well that was not my inspiration for the title. It came from my youth going to Sunday Services in a Western North Carolina Baptist Church. A good many of the older women of the church had fur collars they wore regularly in the colder months. I am sure they were very prized possesons. Well fur has lost favor as a garment and those ladies are now hopefully in heaven. A year or two ago I started noticing these fur, that were usually mink, were showing up at yardsales and fleamarkets. Usually at a pretty affordable price.

 I bought one to see what I could do with it. Tied a bushy big nymph. Sort a AP Nymph meets Hares Ear looking thing. I did think much of it other than it wound up in my warmwater nymphing box. One day fishing the French Broad River for bluegill, smallmouth bass, and anything else that would eat the revered olive Woolly Bugger I added one as a trailing fly. Now after a few casts and swinging retrieves the bits started picking up. Most all the bit were on this weird creation of by gone fashion meets recycling on the cheap.

The day I bought the pelt I used for this article my son (7years old) and I were shopping the fleamarket mostly letting him find and haggle for toys he wanted. I saw the fur and ask a price before I fully saw what it was. It wasn't one but seven mink pelts sewen together. Said $10 and countered with $5. Guess it was mowing so fast and he said take it. I drapped it over my arm. My son refused to continue with me if I did find a bag and put them in it.

For this post I thought I would share my idea of recycling this out of fashion mink collars. Now I'm not sure where PETA and like is going to fall on this one. Remember when I got them they were already dead by at sevearl years :)

One of the seven mink pelts after I seperated them.

 Molting goose feather found on the shore of Douglas Lake in Tennessee.

Now I am sure there is some exiting fly pattern that is tied just like this. I didn't invint the fly but maybe I did come up with a way to let those fur collars from a different day make somebody happy one last time.

Dedicated to my son. I love you.

Fureled Leaders Jig from Scrap and Recycled

Check this great Furled Leader jig layout.
http://opff.org/furled-leader/furled_leader.html

Furled leaders are great to fish with. $15 and up prices may turn folks away from trying and using them. The jig I made was based on the site above.

Material I used were: Recycled 2"x 4" (1), Cup Hook (1), Dowel Pieces 3/8" dia x 3" long and (6), Push pin (1).

I use them for streamer fishing, carp fishing, and other larger game on the fly.

Cutting Board Backdrop for Fly Vise

Ok I have made several back drops for my fly tying vise from trash and junk. Here's a new take on the back drop idea. I was in a small junk shop (Daily Deal) in the near by town of Marshall, NC. I spotted these little cutting board for a $1.50 a piece. The light went off. At those prices you couldn't pass them up?

Here's where I went. Take the two boards and fabricate a hing and lock.

Two 1/4-20 Eye Bolts, 1/4-20 Stove Bolt, Thumb screw and some assorted washer for spacer and alignment.

This is what you wind up with. A white back drop and a white work surface below the vise as well.

Feedback and opinions are welcome.

Dedicated to my son. I love you.