Tomorrow's tyin session at "Jimmy's features Tom Hipp. I do not know Tom, but I'm sure he will be good. His presentation subject is "flies for picky fish. Patterns you need for Spring Creek fishing and other still waters." Being a heavy handed, chuck and duck steelheader, I will surely be able to use this info; especially with the great still waters we have in southeastern Idaho. I've tried to tie the loop eyed mono winged pattern that Bruce Staples tied that looks so realistic and have done fairly well, but, you need a special, vice settup for the extended body. My Regal has a spring, material clip that sticks up and doesn't allow me to make the short, but very realistic extended body that Bruce makes. He holds the tails up and out with a hackle pliers on a rubber band secured above and behind the vice so that he can dub up and then down the two tail fibers making a short, but neat looking extended body. I Gerry-rigged a pliers on my lamp, but it doesn't give me the freedom needed to dub properly....And I am not Bruce Staples! One of the expert tiers that will be coming to the April 20th, flyfishing and tying symposium is Helms,(can't think of his first name?) His expertise is spinning deer hair. He is a cab driver from Toledo, Ohio(my home town). He hitch-hikes around the country to these shows packing his gear with him! So there are more than just Yuppies in this sport! Jere
