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Bill Edson, a renowned fly tyer from the Northeastern United States, developed a streamer that he named the Edson Tiger. Two variations of this fly are the light and dark. The following pattern is my variation of the Light Edson Tiger, which serves me well when fishing for brook or brown trout.

The dressing of this fly includes:

• Hook: Streamer 4xl or 6xl
• Tag: Flat Silver Tinsel
• Tail: Barred Woodduck or Teal
• Body: 4 or 5 Strands Peacock Herl.
• Rib: Very Fine wire. I prefer using a green color. As an option you can twist the herl around the wire.
• Wing: Yellow Pseudo Marabou topped with Red Pseudo Marabou 1/3 to 1/2 as long as Yellow Wing.
• Cheeks: Jungle Cock.
• Head: Tapered Thread.

1. I tie this fly on a small streamer hook, sizes 12 - 14 4xl or 6xl. First, for those who wish to use a barbless hook, this is the time to bend the barb of the hook. Then secure the hook in the vise jaws.
2. To tie in the tag, wrap thread toward the bend of the hook stopping slightly before you reach the bend. Tie in flat silver tinsel and wrap the tinsel 1/16" past the bend and bring it back over itself to the tie in point. Secure with two turns of thread. Clip off excess.
3. Tie in the tail at the bend right above the tag using two turns of thread. The feather fibers should be the length of the hook gap; however, length is not critical and can be longer or shorter.
4. The body materials are now tied onto the hook where you tied down the tail material. At this point you have an option to twist the peacock herl around the wire or use the wire alone as the rib. Peacock herl is fragile and in both cases the rib is used to give the herl extra protection.
5. Next wrap the material up the hook, stopping approximately one or two hook eye lengths before the eye of the hook. Trim the excess herl. If you did not twist the herl around the wire, now is the time to spiral wrap the wire up the body keeping the spirals equal distance apart for ribbing. Tie off and trim excess.
6. Select a piece of pseudo marabou. Leave the ends uneven by pulling the material apart and not cutting. Yellow will be tied in first. The length should reach to the tip of the tail. Pseudo marabou is a synthetic material which you should lock into place by wrapping two wraps around the material. Then take two wraps under the pseudo marabou, and then one more over the top as normal. You may also want to add some cement to the wraps.
7. Repeat the above step with the red pseudo marabou, adjusting the length so that it is approximately 1/3 to 1/2 that of the yellow. Tie the material in the same as you did for the yellow pseudo marabou.
8. Now tie in the Jungle Cock nail feathers for the shoulder. These feathers are tied in on the side of the fly with a slight angle. You will be fine if you follow the angle of the wing. The feather can be tied in two different ways. First you can tie in leaving the yellow, black and white showing or tie it in leaving only the yellow showing. The original Edson Tiger was tied with a gold metal as the cheeks. Leaving only the yellow showing would mimic this. I tie the jungle cock on leaving all the colors showing. If you're tying this fly to fish with, there is no need to buy premium jungle cock feathers. Brook and brown trout are not snobs. They're opportunistic!
9. The last step is to whip finish and cement the head of the fly.

That's all there is to it. Tie it up, fish with it, and come up with your own variations. Don't be afraid to experiment.

Ken Mocker has been a fly fisherman for 35 years and he understands from personal experience what a fly fisherman is looking for when he spends the day fishing his favorite stream. He has been tying his own flies since he began fly fishing in the 1970's and has been invited to tie at the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum and at the Arts of the Angler Fly Fishing Show in Connecticut. See Ken's Edson Tiger at http://www.anglerandsillysalmon.com/index.php?p=product&id=160&parent=20.

Ken designs custom fly rods and ties trout flies and streamers for your fishing pleasure. Visit him at http://www.anglerandsillysalmon.com.

Sony Ericsson K610i : Feather Light, Lightning Fast

The Sony Ericsson K610i is a very compact and stylish 3G phone. This model cannot be termed a specialized camera phone nor a music phone, but more like an allrounder with decent features. There is nothing flashy about the designing of this candy-bar, yet looks great with its shimmering texture and metal keypads. The five way navigation pad makes it very easy and precise to manoeuvre around the menus.

The Sony Ericsson K610i is currently available in two colour solutions - Urban Silver, Evening Red and Misty White, the latter mostly aimed at the fairer sex. The 1.9 inch TFT based screen of the Sony Ericsson K610i produces more that 262 thousand accurate colours. Screen resolution of 176x220 pixel produces clear images so is the perfect viewfinder for the primary 2.0 megapixel digital camera and a perfect video screen when you make or receive video calls.

The primary 2.0 megapixel camera of the Sony Ericsson W610i is a great way of freezing precious moments of life. With its video capabilities, you can choose to immortalize scenes around you in High Quality footage. You can start picture blogging straight from the Sony Ericsson K610i or let your creativity go wild on the Image editor.

The handset also has a secondary VGA camera for video calling across UMTS networks. The Sony Ericsson K610i supports triband GSM network and is functional in most of the world. 3G technology of the device can get you data transfer speed of up to 384 kbps. You can opt for GPRS wherever 3G connectivity is absent. Send and receive email or browse the .net with the built in WAP2.0/xHTML/HTML browser.

The Sony Ericsson K610i also features a media player and evolved music features like PlayNow and MegaBass. Store your favourite tunes on the 16 Mb internal memory plus 64 Mb Memory Stick Micro card that is shipped with a standard kit.

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Male parakeet is sitting on bottom of cage and breathing through open mouth.?

He is not chirping and not as active like normal.His balance seems to be a bit off on bars.This morning when female tried to groom him he seemed irritated..Did check his nostrils to make sure no blockage,looked normal.Feathers are slightly ruffled.No leakage in eyes or sneezing.Nothing in diet or surroundings have changed.She is acting normal.Assuming he is about 3 years old. There is no vet close by for birds.Any ideas?

You have to take this sick bird to a avian vet aka a exotic animal vet asap its very sick and needs treatment asap or could loose it. call any vet get ideas from them or places to take this tiny bird for help asap.

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