Quote Originally Posted by longwalk View Post
Through some stupidity and misadventure a few years ago, I ended up with two broken legs. My wife decided it would be good for me to learn to tie flies while I was laid up so she bought me a vise, some supplies and books on how to tie various popular flies. Turns out I came up with some variants that were never seen before and never replicated or seen again. The hairy finger poker, the sideways shrimp and lumpy leach were some of my more notable ones. I did catch fish on the lumpy leaches on the odd occasion though.
LOL , that made me laugh. (actually snorted some coffee thru the nose!.....ouch)