Materials Hook: TMC5262 Head: Silver tungsten bead Thread: Danville 70 denier wine Rib: Gold Ultra Wire, small Tail and legs: Pheasant Tail Fibers Abdomen and wing case: Veevus medium purple holo tinsel Thorax: Peacock Herl Steps Make a thread base back to the bend. Tie in a few pheasant tail fibers as a tail, measured a bit less than the length of the shank. Wrap back to the front, tying in the wire all the way to the back. Read more

This is a combination of a couple of recipies for tying Pheasant Tail Nymphs. To allow it to sink effectively, I added a bead and some wraps of lead wire from these steps. I also created a tapered body like in these instructions. For most of the rest, I followed the simpler structure from the following video. The main highlights: Before moving the wraps all the way back to the bend I place a piece of copper wire for the back to secure it. Read more

I’m a fan of home automation and have run Home Assistant for some time to streamline automating lights and AV controls. Until recently I ran it on a small Raspberry Pi 3, but as I’ve continued to add more integrations and automations I found I needed more horsepower. This is especially true as I’ve added additional services around HA like Prometheus and Grafana to better monitor the servers and sensors around the house. Read more