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When in Rome.... If that doesn't work for you, try Florence.

Sounds to me like you have the same problem we have here. Our neighbors have defective cats. Tomcat works great if it's really fresh. It should crumble under a little pressure or have some give and have a strong scent of very sweet fruit. Most of the stuff I've come across in HIC's is pretty...

Dude, your SUV, trailer and boat! Lousy way to start the day.

Nicely done.

This should go under the heading of a fast and crappy resolution to a honey-do project. You'll have to take my word for it. we have some very nice fly shadow boxes. These shadow boxes with matting and backing board came from a home store ( Kirklands ) and were ten bucks a pop. Originally, they...

Cool, but to the rest of the points? I'd like to hear your thoughts. I read a something on Blantons board last week that included input from some fly fishing notables, who are against single foot guides on rods and they seem to have some valid points. So where do you stand on them and the...

Agreed, none of my s.w. rods have them, but that goes back to the 90's. Yet a lot of angler's dislike single foot guide which take fewer wraps, reduce foot prep and cut finishing time in half, but they can be found on all price level rods. Then there's the fewer trim band wraps that go along...

T.I.C. :unsure: Could the absence of hook keepers on new production rods have less to do with customer satisfaction and more to do with saving the small amount of labor and material involved with filing down their feet, wrapping and finishing them? Leaving them off the rod's beats giving...

Mothballs & old wool ( gag me ), although that wretched smell could be coming from grey beards fly tying stash.

Could I? In a small camper? No way. We've been kicking around a Class A (formerly had a Class C. ) and hitting the road full time with a toad. We've also thought about maintaining a smaller home base in the southwest. As far as downsizing, we've downsized, then upsized, then downsized two more...

I ordered one of Dave's reels an anti-reverse permit model back around '92 at the I.S.E. San Mateo. Had some big fish on that reel. It's now in another guy's collection Kaufmann's "IS" what a great fly shop should aspire to be. If we could turn back time.....

I received one of those wooden tabletop fly-tying stations as gift that was more of a pain than it was worth. I don't know who designed it or what they tied, but they couldn't have had much in the way of tools, threads or materials and man was it cramped. It was like trying to tie Deceiver's in...

Kiene's Fly Shop in Sac-of-tomatoes, CA. Troutfitter's in Mammoth, CA. Ace "Mountain" Hardware in Truckee, CA. It would be easier to come up with a long list of " late great " fly shops that are gone, but not forgotten.

Who can tie an ant that floats on it’s side? It's been my experience that most any commercial fly-tying house can. They get them to land upside down, headfirst, buns down, sideways, you name it. :giggle:

Just don't expect the floating tips with their loop connecters to replace a Trout rod with a traditional ( DT or WF ) full floating line when it comes to delicacy with a dry fly. Delicate they are not. The Versi-tip tapers ( at least mine on the old Windcutter tapers ) are designed more for...

I have five of them, 2 each 6 weights and two each 8 weights built on the old Windcutter tapers, the fifth one isn't made anymore, it's a nine weight coldwater Striper line, its main body is a clear blue intermediate. The six weights are part of an all around, catch all system. The reel and an...

On a one hundred plus degree weekday with the smell of sage in the air, windows down, I start the ninety-minute cruise up a little used windy steep road. As my rig chugs up the grades, I can feel the temperature drop. I hit the summit at 9,200' and it's sixty-two degrees in the sun, still a few...

One of my first consistently successful ties when I was around thirteen years old, was the Chalk fly. It was tied on a #12 Eagle Claw Baitholder, a maggot shaped body built up with white thread from my mom's sewing kit ( sort of like the old Ted Fay Bombers ) and a tail made from our cat...

That's a gas. An old friend of mine whose got a shop and guides in Northern CA knew I had that rod and wasn't using it anymore. He asked me if I'd consider selling it to one of his clients and so I did, for a whopping $250.00, but that was about six years ago. I'd have probably given it to the...