The immutable Unmutable

Today's word of the day is

immutable.

I had to look it up.

Good one.

government workers...................

Pardon the resurrection.

Bantam's Pinktruder, the final installment.



That is it Luis, I am done and the final batch is in the mail. I am not tying another intruder for a long, long time

You better catch something on one of these after all you have put us through.

Wanna do 120 cripples / emergers, sz 16 ?

No. I am over tying things, trimming things, and organizing things. I am ready for the ice to melt and the water to come back.

For the record, I think Avid is into the cripples (especially the older ones) not me.

Those look pretty nice there Coley.

Maybe you should take up rod building

Do you wear them... or fish them?

Kidding of course, they look good, send me 6 asap and I will pay you money. I have that one black leachy looking fly that I caught that giant fish with you last fall and some sort of pinkish feathery thing that I stole from somebody, and nothing else... so I feel like I need something else.

thank you.

Pinktruder be good. Pink and purple combo be good too. Coley, I'm finding I'm needing some large but unweighted patterns. Got any without the dumbell eyes? I literally ran out the other day, and I hate running out of bait. Either I have to tie the next few nights, or use a floating line and long leader next week to use the weighted -truders I have.

You guys read the part where I said I was going to put my vise into a dark corner and ignore it for a long time right?

If'n your serious and not just mocking me, I might be able to come up with a few more before going into retirement. For Bantam's I tied half with 3/16" I-ballz and half with bead chain eyes, which are quite a bit lighter. I don't have any unweighted on-hand, but could change that without too much headache.

Stam, you shoppin for spring plans or fall plans? I will get a care package together for you.

Salmo's Purple and Pink lightweight-truder?

Good looking bait there, my friend. That dog will hunt!

I've been putting 3 or 4 strips of purplish-pink flashabou down each side, and wow!, that adds a lot of flash to the fly.

Good idea about the bead chain, like with bonefish flies, keeps the attraction that eyes add without significant weight. I shoulda' thought of that.

flashabou ?

pretty spendy stuff there Salmo.

Does that preclude getting a new ascot ?

CG:

Looks like you gots yerself plenty of time to wrap[ up some emergers.

Oh, and I finished your Chironomid.................

Chronomid's, plural, you had a minimum order of two remember?

Emergers. Show me an example and a parts list and I might be able to figger it out. No promises. I am in the hills 15 of the next 17 days though...

This is a PMD Cripple, I need 10 dozen, size 16. Only 620 to go, and I am starting to falter.

The other one was for Vedder...................remember ?

Take your vice to the hills, I'll pay you 10 cents each.

That KK, he's a big spender all right. Yeah, that flashabou is right up there, about 1/20th the cost of decent hackle I suppose. Totally violates the "all natural materials" rule however, sending me to the ranks of the bait thugs and un-ascot worthy. But I seem to be getting over it OK.

I can't believe all the tiny trout hooks I still have laying around. I used to tie all my trout flies. A few years back I realized that flies size 14 and smaller are for younger eyes to tie. A few more years and I'm gonna' need my own young ghillie to tie flies on my leader riverside in order to fish.

I can still wrap up an 18, it needs to be a simple tie though...hard to get on a leader at dusk though even with glasses. I have an Ott light with a magnifier on a gooseneck, and wear 3x readers when wrapping anything these days....

Yeah, I wear 3x to tie all flies including Intruders. 2x on the river to tie to leader.

. . . and then comes along the perennial PP smart azz thinks he knows it all punk who isn't smart enough to know yet that he's still a long ways from knowing sh!t to weigh in yet again with adolescent blather. Thank you for your insipid contribution. Don't know how we got along without it.