Re: [VFB] Jimmy Ashamed?????

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Thanks, Chris.  No, I wasn't ashamed, but some of it did aggravate me.  I'll put it very bluntly.  I trim hackles when I think they need trimming.  In my humble opinion, some hackles look much better trimmed. Aesthetics of a fly do not really matter to me as long as the fly does what I want it to d, in or on top of the water. To me, there is no right or wrong way to tie a fly. It's whatever works for the individual doing the tying. Some of the "old time" fly tying greats never even used a vice. They did it all by holding the hook in one hand and tying the thread, etc. with the other!   I do a lot of "off the wall" things in my tying that some would say are totally wrong.  I try several different approaches when I'm tying a new pattern, and the one that works best for me is the one I stick with.  The main things for me is what the fly looks like to my eyes, how it looks on the stream and whether or not it catches fish.  

Not Ashamed!  Not A Purist Either!

JIMMY
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Chris Broomell wrote:

 

Hello list. 

    I can't believe that I am having to send this message out!  Seems like someone (DonO...where were you for this one??) could have offered the definitive solution to this dilemma...

    As I see it - people trim hackles because they aren't sized proportionally to the hook gap and, therefor, aren't "correctly" sized for the fly.  While everyone has been quibbling about the ethics of the practice (and making poor Jimmy and Doug ashamed to have contributed their opinions in the process!) I have been trying to SOLVE the problem.

 

Any of these should work.  Try them. 

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