winter… time to get out the vice.

Rivers and creeks are finally starting to freeze shut, the winds are too cold to bear, and we are only left with memories of what it feels like to have a fish at the end of the line. Time to get that vice out and start tying some flies for next year. Not surprisingly, as I go into my second winter of fly tying, I have a much better sense of what flies I need most, don’t use, and are good flies to give away as presents (same flies as the ones I don’t use). I’ve pretty much neglected the vice all summer & fall, so I’ll need a little warm up. I see a whole lot of elk hair caddis on the horizon.