steely34
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"They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it..... you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore." John Gierach
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 15:57:44
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nice Steely, you are doing a good job keeping this tutorial bank fresh
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 16:06:24
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Cool Steely. The jester egg rocks! Many early season stockies were caught on that pattern this year for me. Yellow egg, with white chenille legs.
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steely34
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 16:06:40
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Hey it's all good Loomis. I'm off work due to a shoulder injury so I gots the time. Kind of keeps my sanity you know.
"They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it..... you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore." John Gierach
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steely34
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 16:10:49
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Norm - yeah i don't really know if that's been tied before but some time ago( a year or two) I was playing around with some material and came up with this. Never really saw it anywhere before. Posted it here and some guys said it looked like the hat the comics that are called jesters wear. So I started to call it the jester egg. Kind of stuck I guess. Glad it works for ya.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 16:20:15
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A friend showed me the jester egg last fall, maybe he saw it on here. All I did was play with the colors a bit. The ones I have had good luck with are(all white legs), yellow, pink, chartreuse eggs. Gonna try them for steel this year, if I can get away from my favorite egg patterns lol!
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steely34
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 16:55:06
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Your right in what you say about the white legs seem to have the most success - kind of imitates maggots I guess. Pretty durable fly too. Hey I'm just happy as a lark one of my lane brained ideas is workin for you guys and others are using it.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/21 21:31:48
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 01:06:19
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thanks so much steely. Once we are settled in our new house(again yes 3 time in 3 years) Im getting the lou minnow tutorial up. just gotta figure out this dang camera i pick the right option just wont focus good enough.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 07:14:30
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ORIGINAL: kyler16 just gotta figure out this dang camera i pick the right option just wont focus good enough. Try backing up a little, zooming all the way out, and getting a few contrasting colors in the field of view. I know that with my (old, cheap) camera, when photographing flies in front of that blue background card, it sometimes helps to get a bit if the dark background behind it into the shot, to help it 'grab' the fly to focus on. Then I just crop it to suit.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 10:15:58
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steely34
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 11:32:58
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What a setup!!!! Thanks for the links! Now that's how to take pics of your flies!!!!
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 14:23:00
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yep, and it's really not that hard. All you need is a mid-grade DSLR with a good Macro Lens
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 14:43:10
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ORIGINAL: Loomis yep, and it's really not that hard. All you need is a mid-grade DSLR with a good Macro Lens Not hard, just expensive. For the record, all my photos to this point were from a 4.0 megapixel entry-level kodak point & shoot.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 14:49:43
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not that bad.... I just like to be able to tinker with the aperture a little more, and my point and shoot was no good in macro. Had to bite the bullet again and get another SLR.
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 15:13:32
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ORIGINAL: Loomis not that bad.... I just like to be able to tinker with the aperture a little more, and my point and shoot was no good in macro.  Had to bite the bullet again and get another SLR. I think I might try to come across a bridge camera over the holidays. Something like that would suit my needs better than either a SLR or a compact, I think. But we're getting off track here...
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RE: Eggi Juan Kenobi
2009/09/22 16:22:38
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get an SLR, u already have a point and shoot. I'd suggest a canon XSi bare minimum.
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