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After an overnight stay in Port.... we are heading back out to sea for a while. I've got 9 more days on board, then it's off for 2 weeks.... I have a whole bunch of new stuff waiting for me at home, and plan on modifying my tying bench some to make better use of my space. Hopefully will be...

I ordered 2 molds from Barlows last week....They made it to the house within 4 days of my order. I have never had an order take more than about 5 day from the time of my online order. Great service at a decent price. I cant wait to get home and pour some up!!

I have gotten away from my tying quite a bit since I got my new Skeeter back in August, but have been picking it back up in the last month or so... My problem is my spending!!! Lol In the last week, I have gone a little crazy... I have ordered 2 new molds for pouring, 2000 hooks, 4 new powder...

does anyone ever use an airbrush with powder paint to do accents?? I saw an airbrush on Barlow's site, and it made me wonder??? Any comments would be appreciated... I am thinking about getting a little compressor and airbrush for this... Thanks

I fished in the Crappie Masters tournament on Lake Fork a couple of weeks ago ( my first Tournament ). It was a tough day of fishing.... the wind was howling up to 25 mph and the lake was more like a small ocean. I had found a really good brush pile the day before, but it was out in open...

Here is a pic of Port Fourchon.... in South Louisiana. I was heading in to this port, when I decided to head west to Galveston, Tx instead. The roads are 4' under water. The boats in the picture are tied to the dock!!! I am glad I turned west!!!!

We are headed in to the dock... Running from tropical storm... Soon to be hurricane Isaac. Calling for it to possibly build to a category 3 storm by the time it makes landfall. Gulf of Mexico is not a good place to be for the next few days!!! At least the oil companies are on board nowadays and...

I finally talked my wife into going and getting the new Skeeter. This is the sweetest boat I have ever had by far!!!! We picked it up yesterday, and took it out for a little break in ride today.... AWESOME is all I can say!!! It is a ZX 200 19.5' long, has an HDS8 gen2 on console and a HDS5...

I am in Allen Texas.... Going to the jig tying seminar tonight at Cabelas! I am pretty excited about it..... I have never seen anyone tie before... Other than myself!! Hope I can pick up a few tips!

My wife found this place while planning our trip to New York city.... It was an astounding place!! The lady in the store pegged me for a tyer as soon as I walked in the door. They had some really neat threads in there dating back to the 1920's an 1930's. Alot of the stuff is too delicate from...

Standing by in Port... secured to the dock waiting to see what this crazy zig-zagging Debby is going to do! My marine forecast is calling for seas up to 27' where I was a couple of days ago... I am fat and Happy sitting here at the dock.... I may even get a chance to do some real Captain...

I will be getting off this old ship in about 2.5 weeks, and will be heading to the big Apple for vacation with the family...... My wife wants to visit some craft store there, which is supposed to have a lot of vintage fly-tying thread. There was a picture of a bunch of old geezers crawling...

I just got done looking at Mr. Shoemoo's post on all the great stuff he received after giving a guy some of his jigs to fish with.... He made out pretty darned well! Well a similar thing just happened to me tonight!!!! I have had some off and on correspondence with Quint....otherwise known as...

Painted these up this afternoon, and was going to go throw them in the oven after dinner to cure.... But got run out by the cook... he was getting ready to bake some chocolate chip cookies.... I'll wait til tomorrow to go bake them!! LOL Colors are: Watermelon Flake, Custom Pearl Charteuse...

Tied up a few more minnows....I can't wait to try these things out!!!!

Here are some I tied on those 1/10 oz ultras..... MAN... I LIKE these things....I don't know about the fish....But I would eat them!!! LOL This is gonna be one of my favorite style jigs!

Well.... I did up a batch of Ronny's 1/10 oz Ultras..... these things are really cool!!! All I have left to do is put a little clear polish over the eyes and tie them up. Need to do some in pink and chartreuse as well... I can see a whole box of these little suckers before long!!! Even went...

I finished up 2 swaps worth of jigs, and have them packaged up ready to go....so I thought i would do a little painting tonight... I'll get a bunch painted up over the next week or so.... then I'll just tell the danged Chief cook to get out of MY Galley... so I can cure them up!!! lol Those...

It's killing me not be able to fish!!!! This BIG Yellowfin Tuna swam around the boat for 3 hrs....just cruising the surface...Never seen one just hanging around, just idling like this..They are usually gun and run! I have a nice diamond jig that would look good hanging out of his mouth!!! He is...

I have only tried thread necks once before using squirrel for the tail... they came out OK..... but I thought I would try it again.....I used some of my new Teardrop heads in 1/16. Arctic fox, and some Wabbit along with some orange hackle and some flash. I think I could fool a wily Crappie or...