Happy All Saints Day. This day is the reason there is an All Hollows Eve Day. Seems the ghouls, goblins, witches and creatures of the night, pour out there worse upon us before having to go back and hide from the forces of good. In the Catholic faith this signifies the beginning of a new year, and they replace the now year old paschal candle with a brand new one. A new page in the book of the dead gets turned and life goes on.


Well I played some more.

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Very crude stuff I know, but the material is tricky stuff. I am learning as I go. I tried flaring out my Mare-A-Boo on the two on the left. At still there are two, when swimming they legs will drawn in tighter. They will resist this inward movement as they get pulled along and provide action. That’s the plan. Saw something similar on the interwebs. Of course everything has already been done.

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The jig on the right has some white Mare-A-Boo added to indicate there is a white belly, but it kind of gets buried some. Little things like that are where I am stuck now. I need to master technique in order to make beauty.

The grizzly hackles are soft and flexible and I want to try wrapping hackle vs tying chenille. I have watched some videos featuring this technique and think I could follow along fairly well. A hackle behind the jig head would offer some body without becoming a center of attention thingie. I want that eye to lead the way.

So far I am enjoying tying with feathers. They are difficult to work with as they are so flimsy but they offer plenty of whimsical rewards. Fly tyers must be a crazy lot as they detail they put into a fly is way too much. I am lucky if the feather points anywhere near in the right direction. LOL