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    Giles
    IHUK Crew
    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

    Just sorting out some of my fly fishing gear. Found a few boxes of nymphs that a good friend tied decades ago. The only reason I got them was because he thought they were not good enough for his box 🙂

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    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      goosehd
      Mod Squad
      @Giles
      Joined: 8 Apr 2016

      @Giles If those were the rejected ones, I would love to see his acceptable ones 🙂

      "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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        Giles
        IHUK Crew
        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

        Exactly, his dry and wet flies are amazing too.....

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          motojobobo
          啓蒙家
          Joined: 22 Aug 2015

          Not a fisherman myself so amazed to see these handcrafted beauties. How long does it take an expert like to your friendo to make one of these? He must be 700 years old if he tied all those together, and they are only his rejects.

          The journey is the objective.

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            Giles
            IHUK Crew
            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

            Probably 5-10 mins

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              Giles
              IHUK Crew
              Joined: 22 Sept 2009

              Here some of his "Grade 1" dry flies....I have 100's of his "Grade 2's"....

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              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                motojobobo
                啓蒙家
                Joined: 22 Aug 2015

                Very, very cool handiwork.
                Whoever gets into making them will fill up his home with all sorts of different stuff (strings, nylons, beads…..and on and on) to imitate the myriad insects flying around water bodies.

                The journey is the objective.

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                  Giles
                  IHUK Crew
                  Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                  I dont tie much (mainly salt water flats flies), and I have got a shit load of stuff.....

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    Mizmazzle
                    見習いボス
                    @Giles
                    Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                    @Giles wow! Those are quite lovely! A well tied dry fly is a work of art. Hell, I have framed paintings of them on the wall.

                    In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                      Giles
                      IHUK Crew
                      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                      My typically Gosportian access to the foreshore....

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                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        goosehd
                        Mod Squad
                        @Giles
                        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                        @Giles that’s sad and far too common. Our waterways around shopping centres are the same.

                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                          Tago Mago
                          Mod Squad
                          @Giles
                          Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                          @Giles not one of your bikes I guess

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                            Giles
                            IHUK Crew
                            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                            It's been built to access MoD (US = DoD) owned, and very restricted foreshore, the alternative is a 2 mile walk/scramble/wade. It is surprising stable.

                            When my mate got back to his bike after fishing, some local shits had slashed his tyres. I told him to add it to the "fast access pile"....

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              goosehd
                              Mod Squad
                              @Giles
                              Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                              @Giles misunderstood the purpose…our local shits have an affinity of pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways for no good reason. Thankfully, they are too busy doing so, to spend time on slashing tires.

                              "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                Giles
                                IHUK Crew
                                @goosehd
                                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                @goosehd said in Catch of the day [Fishing]:

                                pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways

                                That's how they got there, it is the repurposing that I like......

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  aksu
                                  Raw and Unwashed
                                  Joined: 28 Jul 2021

                                  Gear is a bit light for this kind of fishing

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                                  ... but not the pants they are XHS!

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                                    Giles
                                    IHUK Crew
                                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                    That looks my kind of fishing....Target species?

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      aksu
                                      Raw and Unwashed
                                      @Giles
                                      Joined: 28 Jul 2021

                                      @Giles Sea trout. I'm more used to fresh water fishing. Was nice, no trouts thought

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                                        Giles
                                        IHUK Crew
                                        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                        Looks like good Bass territory. I saw a beaut of a sea trout jump about 5 meters from my rod tip whilst fishing for Bass last week....

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          Giles
                                          IHUK Crew
                                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                          Popped out for a quick 30 minutes at high tide today. Not massive, and no way of gauging its size in the photo, but a lovely fish. Put back to live another day....

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                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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