{"id":719,"date":"2022-11-12T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunesandties.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2022-11-23T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:10:46","slug":"salmon-flies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For my fourteenth birthday, my Mom gave me a copy of Ernie Schweibert&#8217;s book, <em>&#8220;Matching The Hatch.&#8221; <\/em> For much of the rest of my life, I spent my time at the vise, book open, imitating the mayflies, stoneflies, caddis and other aquatic insect life that inhabited the Catskill rivers I&#8217;ve come to love so much. Two factors have come to moderate that; First, I began working a part-time retirement job at our local fly shop, &#8220;<em>The Compleat Angler,&#8221;<\/em> where I could buy hundreds of exquisitely-tied patterns without spending hours at the vise. Secondly, I began to fall in love with Atlantic Salmon and the flies that attracted them &#8211; especially the lovely old classic patterns. So for the past ten or so years, I have been tying classic salmon flies exclusively. Their proportions, colors, materials and challenge have been a fatal attraction for me. And the folks that tie them have given me an even more special benefit &#8211; I have met so many through my IG page, and their encouragement and instruction have been both amazingly helpful and have forged lasting friendships. So what follows is a sample of my ongoing attempts to learn this amazing craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"886\" src=\"http:\/\/tunesandties.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AFF64A19-FB2F-4415-A3AF-24E810BCBAA8_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AFF64A19-FB2F-4415-A3AF-24E810BCBAA8_1_105_c.jpeg 886w, https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AFF64A19-FB2F-4415-A3AF-24E810BCBAA8_1_105_c-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AFF64A19-FB2F-4415-A3AF-24E810BCBAA8_1_105_c-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AFF64A19-FB2F-4415-A3AF-24E810BCBAA8_1_105_c-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my fourteenth birthday, my Mom gave me a copy of Ernie Schweibert&#8217;s book, &#8220;Matching The Hatch.&#8221; For much of the rest of my life, I spent my time at the vise, book open, imitating the mayflies, stoneflies, caddis and other aquatic insect life that inhabited the Catskill rivers I&#8217;ve come to love so much. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flies","category-salmon-flies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunesandties.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}