natetreat wrote:Cool! I've been looking for some more local videos. I've been tying from the scottish guys, and I need practice. My ties look retarded.
Sometimes retarded is good.
![Tongue [tongue]](./images/smilies/msp_tongue.gif)
I was up late one evening tying and found out by the results of my experimental pattern that I should have gone to bed hours before. I came up with a fly that, when I was finished with, I almost threw it away. It looked really dumb. The next morning I thought, well, I'll try it even though it is retarded. While on the lake using the fly and catching fish after fish, my fishing partner asked me what I was using. I told him that it was a stupid looking fly that I tied about 1:30 in the morning, so I called it "After Midnight". He looked at it and burst out laughing. When he regained his composure, it replied, "Man, that fly is butt ugly!" So, now it is referred to "The Butt Ugly". Oddly enough, it is one of my best patterns.
![RollEyes [rolleyes]](./images/smilies/msp_rolleyes.gif)