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A challenge for sure!!! #10868812 05/24/15 06:45 PM
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A friend of mine (or I thought he was!!!!!) gave me some size 32 hooks YES 32!!! and challenged me to tie a fly on one. Well I am always up for a challenge. I lost 3 hooks on the floor trying to get one in the vise!
Well here it is a size 32 dry pheasant tail in the picture is a size 14 hook to show comparison
No before anyone asks I will not tie you two dozen........... hammer

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Re: A challenge for sure!!! [Re: chefmike] #10869031 05/24/15 08:36 PM
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wow, i would have lost all of my hooks trying to get them in the vice, nice job



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Re: A challenge for sure!!! [Re: chefmike] #10869629 05/25/15 01:36 AM
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roflmao

It won't get any harder than that!!!

Re: A challenge for sure!!! [Re: chefmike] #10871251 05/25/15 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted By: chefmike

No before anyone asks I will not tie you two dozen...........


No problem Mike, I only need one dozen of them. roflmao

You've done better than I have with them. I got a box of those hooks several years ago off a clearance rack. That box has never been opened....


Nice job!


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Thanks guys
Rex, Was it the split double wing olives you wanted or the fully dressed salmon flies?
Mike.................. roflmao


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A dozen Royal Coachmen will be fine. roflmao

Hey, will you still be around on Sunday at the Expo? Not sure if I will make into the Expo hall on Fri or Sat, unless the casting park gets washed away like the rest of the state...


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Re: A challenge for sure!!! [Re: RexW] #10872452 05/26/15 10:39 AM
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Dude! how many xxx are your glasses . Great work,


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Rex I will be at the Expo all the three days..............so please drop by and say hi. its great meeting you guys from the forum. I will be next to the Austin Fly Fishers

Mike


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cheers Very Impressive!!

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roflmao

It won't get any harder than that!!!


He still has to get it tied on the tippet.


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roflmao

It won't get any harder than that!!!


He still has to get it tied on the tippet.


roflmao He had it displayed at the Expo. He actually had to point the hooks out to me. No way I could get them tied on.

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The nice thing about those tiny hooks is that you can't put much on them, so the flies are simple to tie. I've tied and fished size 32s with good success on the San Juan, though these days the Juan seems to require nothing smaller than a 24, with 18s to 22s the norm.


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