40 Rivers To Freedom

A new online fly fishing news service was born yesterday-

Hatches Magazine and FlyAddicts.com have partnered up to launch FlyAddicts News.

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As one of the writers for this new service, I should also mention that this will mean big changes for 40 Rivers.  No, 40 Rivers isn’t going away, but it will be following the lead of fellow Hatches blogger, April Vokey, and moving from the Hatches Blog Network over to the FlyAddicts blog network.  There are just too many great things happening, or in the works, over there- and I want this blog to be a part of it.

The other change is that the content at 40 Rivers will become much more narrow, ie, more of a personal blog chronicling the stuff I do, the stuff I tie, the thoughts I have, etc.  This isn’t really a major change here, as I haven’t tried to stay on top of everything that is going on in the universe since I went back to school- but reaeders who continue to read 40 Rivers at its new home (I’ll let you know when it happens) will definitely notice a different feel.

Santa brought me a new video camera.  While it will get most of it’s use at chorus concerts and the kids’ sporting events, it’ll spend its off time at the tying bench and on the water…

I’ve got a lot to learn when it comes to this video stuff, but I gotta say that I’m pretty happy with the results of the tying video I did below at the camera’s default settings and basic lighting.  I should be able to ramp up the quality level a notch or two once I figure out all the buttons and stuff.

Anyways, here is a video tutorial on how to tie a very simple damselfly nymph pattern that proved itself over and over again on my local panfish puddles in ’09.