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[font "Pristina"][green][size 4][cool]As a relatively newcomer to the tying world, I will frequently mess up a new pattern. You know like not measuring materials correctly, tying to close to the eye etc. I don’t even bother stripping the material from the hook and starting again. I just grab another hook and give it another try. Might even use my rejects for those fish that are not too choosy. LOL. Now I know that our experienced tiers aren’t faced with this scenario [/size][/green][/font][font "Pristina"][green][size 4]but wanted to hear from those who share my boat of experience.[/size][/green][/font]
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Even though I have been tying for about six years now. A good bit of my experience is in the area that you speak of.
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I started tying flies about 25 years ago, so I guess that makes me a new commer too.
I used to tie a mean cricket, "blacks and browns"
9 years a go a fleeting carivan took my ability to tie flies away...
talk about no short term memory, if the directions are laying in front of me I have to look back and forth now a dozen times per step...
I have but all given up on mastering flies any more, I still tie them, and yes I fish with rejects, about 99 percent of the time, the other one percent is when some one gives me a flie or I buy one...
Thank god for near sited fish. [angelic] in my case nearly blind sited fish...[shocked][laugh]
I cant even duplicate my own creations... lol... but I still get some enjoyment from it so I keep on picking up feathers... now if I could only remember where I put my fly tieing box I would make me a couple ice flies,,, the guys are already on the lake catching my gills...[shocked]
my lake has some trout in it, wonder what it would take to pull one up from under the ice?
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... like you I look back and forth at the directions dozens of times while tying a fly.. its not a short term memory thing.. [font "Tempus Sans ITC"][#800000][size 3]its that I dont know what the heck I am doing..!! [sly][/size][/#800000][/font]
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.... and here I was thinking I was just [font "Tempus Sans ITC"][#800000]LOST and DONT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING.. [sly][/#800000][/font]
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I don't care how long you have been tying, all the things you brought up DryRod happens. I have gone to the trouble of stripping the hook and starting over but only on ones I give to someone else. For me, I will try anything and the rattier that better. Mojo is constantly yelling at me for not clearing the eye from glue (I just figured he could add a little to the tying table, by cleaning the hole)
It is normal. In fact I think that the new comers are more critical then those who have been tying for years.
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...so its not just me making silly mistakes.. its things everyone does at some time or the other?? [sly]
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Since I don't tie any copied patterns and do all original work, I will see a variation of my own pattern from time to time and captalize upon them by adding a few additional tweaks to them in order to create a new recipe.[cool]
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I often get an idea, try it out, and the end product looks like crap! Other times they come out pretty well. But I rarely strip a hook and most all of them go into one fly box or another. I can look back into boxes and see my progression too! I see a nice one and think, "wow, I was tying great and had a great idea there". Or see one of the monstrosities and just laugh, "what the heck did I think I was doing there!"[cool]
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