I've lost my tying mojo!

BLACK KNIGHT · 02-03-05, 07:49 PM

I look at my vise, and feel nothing. I've lost my Mojo.
I feel no need to create, no desire to tie.

NickelCigar · 02-03-05, 08:00 PM

Flyfishing Festival will help to get your Mojo going!

W. Donald Newton · 02-03-05, 11:19 PM

A similar malaise is reported in the Fly Tying Board of www.flyfisherman.com . I know I’ve suffered from it recently. I got over it. Maybe the advent of Spring, early as predicted by Beauregard Lee, will provide a proper healing along with some TLC by the Dam engineers at Buford.

It’ll get better.

Cheers, Don

Hollis · 02-04-05, 12:04 PM

Getting away from anything normal or functional has always helped me. Doing wierd spiders, foam bugs, wild bass streamers (that I may NEVER fish with), or other strange things helps me refocus on the really creative aspects of tying.

Heck, a good glass of Turkey, some Robert Earl Keen, and some free time can really get your mojo going when you just quit worring about what you are doing and just get creative. I have some really cool looking bass flies I tied back in my days in Sandersville, GA that helped get me through a tying rut.

-Hollis

Bob M · 02-04-05, 02:04 PM

Start calling it a vice.

manik · 02-07-05, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLACK KNIGHT

I look at my vise, and feel nothing. I've lost my Mojo.
I feel no need to create, no desire to tie.

i feel the same way

. but it will soon be the time of the year where it starts to come back

weg · 02-08-05, 01:16 PM

I don't know if this will help or not but it did it for me. Recently, 1/19/05, Jackster posted some fabulous photos of copper johns he had tied (see "Copper John Colors"). This fired me up and I was inspired to tie these flies. I bought several various colors of copper wire and have really enjoyed tying various colors and combinations. From an esthetical stanpoint this is my favorite fly, actually I have never caught many fish with the copper john (could be because I don't fish it very much maybe due to wooly buggers and elk haired caddis). It is a very unique fly, sort of difficult to tie, requires some special techniques, and there are various methods for tying it. I continue to be inspired as I am currently trying to tie as perfect a copper john as I can.

Pacific_Creek · 02-08-05, 06:32 PM

If you do they are fun to tie with. I let my kids tie with me and the flies never look as good as if I do them myself but I sure have a lot of fun! I let them pick out the colors of the fly. The best one so far is the pink tailed, brown bodied, grizzly hackled, glass head wooly bugger. My youngest is three and he can play 'catch' with me as we wrap chenille or hackle around a hook.

granger bamboo · 02-09-05, 05:30 AM

A beautiful hand tied fly hanging at the end of a bamboo fly rod. Now that gets me going.
Gary

02-03-05, 07:49 PM	#1
BLACK KNIGHT Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Greenville, SC, USA Posts: 3,328	I've lost my tying mojo! I look at my vise, and feel nothing. I've lost my Mojo. I feel no need to create, no desire to tie. __________________ "Everybody knows the early bird gets the worm. So, it stands to reason that a fisherman should not let any grass grow under his bed, but should be up and casting his fly before the trout are full of worms and not interested in the higher order of insects." - Robert Lee, "Guiding Elliott

02-03-05, 08:00 PM	#2
NickelCigar Native Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tucker, Ga. Posts: 505	A trip to the Atlanta.... Flyfishing Festival will help to get your Mojo going!

02-03-05, 11:19 PM	#3
W. Donald Newton Native Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Chamblee, GA, USA Posts: 450	Must be a major, worldwide problem. A similar malaise is reported in the Fly Tying Board of www.flyfisherman.com . I know I’ve suffered from it recently. I got over it. Maybe the advent of Spring, early as predicted by Beauregard Lee, will provide a proper healing along with some TLC by the Dam engineers at Buford. It’ll get better. Cheers, Don

02-04-05, 12:04 PM	#4
Hollis Native Join Date: Jan 1999 Location: Cumming, GA Posts: 459	A soloution to get you through to the other side.... Getting away from anything normal or functional has always helped me. Doing wierd spiders, foam bugs, wild bass streamers (that I may NEVER fish with), or other strange things helps me refocus on the really creative aspects of tying. Heck, a good glass of Turkey, some Robert Earl Keen, and some free time can really get your mojo going when you just quit worring about what you are doing and just get creative. I have some really cool looking bass flies I tied back in my days in Sandersville, GA that helped get me through a tying rut. -Hollis __________________ -Hollis ...the road goes on forever and the party never ends!

02-08-05, 06:32 PM	#8
Pacific_Creek Native Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Lilburn GA USA Posts: 184	Do you have kids? If you do they are fun to tie with. I let my kids tie with me and the flies never look as good as if I do them myself but I sure have a lot of fun! I let them pick out the colors of the fly. The best one so far is the pink tailed, brown bodied, grizzly hackled, glass head wooly bugger. My youngest is three and he can play 'catch' with me as we wrap chenille or hackle around a hook. __________________ "My casting has been described as an old lady fighting off bees with a broomstick"<P>Patrick McManus<BR>

02-04-05, 02:04 PM	#5
Bob M Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Nov 1998 Location: Lawrenceville, GA Posts: 1,372	Start calling it a vice.

02-08-05, 01:16 PM	#7
weg Native Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suwanee, GA, USA Posts: 207	I don't know if this will help or not but it did it for me. Recently, 1/19/05, Jackster posted some fabulous photos of copper johns he had tied (see "Copper John Colors"). This fired me up and I was inspired to tie these flies. I bought several various colors of copper wire and have really enjoyed tying various colors and combinations. From an esthetical stanpoint this is my favorite fly, actually I have never caught many fish with the copper john (could be because I don't fish it very much maybe due to wooly buggers and elk haired caddis). It is a very unique fly, sort of difficult to tie, requires some special techniques, and there are various methods for tying it. I continue to be inspired as I am currently trying to tie as perfect a copper john as I can.

02-09-05, 05:30 AM	#9
granger bamboo Stocker Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 16	MOJO A beautiful hand tied fly hanging at the end of a bamboo fly rod. Now that gets me going. Gary

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