55 on the fly

 Here's a great little variation of my Turkey-tail Nymph tied as a wet fly to imitate the stone flies that come off my home creek in early Spring... Dead drift it, then let it swing, then strip it in... Yeah it's a good one. Enjoy! Materials: Hook: #14-16 1xl nymph hook Thread: 8/0 Uni. Tail and body: Turkey-tail fibers Rib: Medium copper wire Thorax: black dubbing of choice Hackle: Turkey feather from the neck of the bird, 1-1/2 turns.

On opening day of the NY state fall turkey season I was fortunate to take this beautiful adult hen turkey in the pouring rain..... None of it will go to waste. All the meat will be eaten... in fact we already had Wild Turkey Chowder made with the legs from this bird.... Delicious! The feathers from the wings will be used on arrows; the body, neck and tail feathers will be used to create, nymphs, wet flies and streamers for fly fishing.....

As some of you may remember I broke one of the tip sections of my recently rebuilt Kingfisher bamboo fly rod fishing out in Montana this summer... See the "Broken Hearted" post here: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6587365398588568558#editor/target=post;postID=7645821091392945748;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=10;src=postname And if your interested in the total rebuild of this fly rod you can look back through the older posts and see those as well. Today, I worked on the repair of that broken tip section... the clean break right at the ferrule section... drilling out the old bamboo and pin removal... working on the bamboo fit and prep... the repaired and aligned ferrule with the pin installed... in the end I lost about 5/8" of the tip section... tools for wrapping the decretive black band... wrapped... first coat of spar varnish applied... just four more to go... and she will be good to fish....