A few more steelhead flies...

[Jasonh]

for my trip to the rogue and trinity the second week in november. The green butt silver hilton modfied spey has proven itself before. I tied up this olive spey for the trinity, if it doesnt work at least it will look good in a shadow box!



Jason Hartwick

[Jasonh]

I need to figure out how to size these pictures correctly. I screw it up every time. Sorry guys.

Jason Hartwick

[Gregg Machel]

Here is an easy way to do proto re-sizing automatically:

1. Copy the picture to your HD.
2. Go to File Explorer and right click on the image.
3. Select Sendto - Mail Recipient.
4. Windows will prompt you, asking if you want to reduce the image size. Say yes.
5. This will open a new email with the image as an attachment.
6. Copy and paste the image from the email to a new folder on your HD (i use the same folder as the original and then a sub-directory called "reduced").
7. Upload that file to your image bucket account or whatever you use.

This will give you a consistent photo size that is perfect for a message board, and it only takes a minute or so to do. A lot faster than editing it in Photoshop or whatever you use.

[Darian]

Jason,.... Those are certainly well designed and very good looking flies. What size hook are they tied on

[Jasonh]

Darian, the olive spey is tied on a #3 aleck jackson hook and the green butt hilton is tied on a #1.5 alec jackson. While these hooks can be pricey i really like the look of them them and they are way sharper than the partidge or tiemco spey hooks.

Jason Hartwick

[Darian]

These hooks are so good, I've only used them for display flies.... I'd be devestated if I lost one of those flies on a fishing trip.

[Jasonh]

Thats the one nice thing about fishing traditional patterns on the swing, you dont lose as many flies! I do tie most of my patterns for display though, especially the larger size flies as those hooks are more expensive. I do fish a lot my flies on partridge bartleet spey/salmon hooks. I really like that olive spey, i really hope it works. If not, just another display fly.

Jason