In the words of my father, I “made out like a bandit” this weekend. And had a spot of luck too.
It began Friday when the new hard drive for our Series 3 Tivo arrived. The old hard drive decided to take a permanent vacation, presenting the dilemma of either purchasing a new Tivo, meaning we’d [...]
Posts under ‘Fly Tying’
nothing beats a “free” weekend
pictures of the latest flies
Finally took some pictures of my latest attempts at fly tying…
I’ll be at the fly-tying desk…
one fly for the trees, one for the fish, one to remember how to tie the blasted thing
Scooped up my fully equipped fly tying desk — which eerily looks much like a little folding wooden TV tray — and plopped it between myself and the TV last weekend. Armed with a rack of threads, small and even-smaller hooks, a few tungsten beads and a diet soda, I set to tying a few [...]
down the road we go
Maybe we’d better hope that the trout targeted this season don’t rise to the flies tied here at the House on the Hill. Already we’re beginning a battle the creeping curse that comes with fly tying.
You can start with the materials strewn about the dining room table: hooks, bobbins, black thread, tan thread, red thread, [...]
