. I never got a penny out of it — not even a drink.
 I stopped using it and have never tied another since. One little sequel to this story is that some years later I was given some of the spiralled nylon tube and was asked to give it a try. I put a length of it on a size ten hook, leaving a tail about half an inch out of the back. I put a small Grey Head on it, went round the west bank, saw a ﬁsh move about twenty-ﬁve yards out and tossed it out to it. The next instant the ﬁsh was on — a rainbow of 3lb. Two casts later I was into another 2 ½ lb trout, so I cut it off and ground it into the mud, thinking to myself, this is where I came in.
A month or two later I phoned Gordon with the good news – my unweighted SW, tied San Juan style, had proved completely unsuccessful on three streams, the Elandspad, the Lourens and the Upper Olifants. Furthermore the yellowfish in Sterkfontein Dam near Harrismith in the Orange Free State had also spurned it.
The Upper Olifants River in the Witzenberg Mountains nears Ceres in the Western Cape – where the trout refused the EP Squirmy Wormy.
My current version – which awaits field trials – consists of a 2.5 mm red tungsten bead on a #14 jig hook. Using 16/0 red Veevus thread I tie in a piece of pink Squirmy Wormy material about 2 mm behind the bead and pointing towards the bend of the hook. I dub a suitable pinkish dressing, in the illustrated example I have used Hends UVD09 (Vine Red) behind the bead. I then fold the SW forward over the dubbing and tie it off against the bead. This forces the SW section into an upright position. It takes about two minutes to tie and it is a magnificently sparse “fly”.
Now I am waiting for someone courageous, someone not fazed by base insult and calumny, to field test my latest creation. It also occurs to me that a combination of a small section of Squirmy Wormy material, coloured black with a permanent marker and covered with UV light-cured acrylic resin could form the basis of a very successful tadpole imitation if tied on a short shank hook with a tail of a very mobile material such as marabou and, in that regard, let me leave you with some food for thought.
For fishing ponds, lakes, deep slow pools and backwaters one needs a pattern that simulates midge, blackfly, mosquitos and other larvae. I use the same pattern and size and feel a wide selection of this artificial is not necessary.
I formerly made the body of this larvae imitation from cream rubber strips, but the shammy when wet is more realistic and gives better action. This fly should be fished so that it hangs head up in the surface film. Greasing the head and the hackle together but not the body will usually accomplish this. Sometimes it is necessary to grease all but the last foot of the leader.
I think it is fairly obvious that it will be necessary to re-evaluate your artificial nymphs and larvae continually and to redesign them as you learn more about their use and about the natural they represent. For this reason, the fly fisher who is also a fly tier over his brother angler who is not.
The Cream Wiggler as tied by Charles Brooks and sketched by Dave Whitlock.
Fly tyers, in their insatiable quest to catch anything and everything that swims, have strayed far from the original fur and feathers edict of early pioneers like G M Halford and Theodore Gordon but, for van der Spuy, the EP Squirmy Wormy and Ed’s Logjam Fly are a bridge too far.
Ed’s Logjam Fly – a bridge too far?
There are limits you know.If the car has never been titled in the state of purchase, it is considered new by any aspect of the law. Just because a car has miles on it doesn't mean it's not "new". 

If a car has been transported from one dealer to another by courier, it will have miles on it. Not every new car is moved around on a hauler or roll-back. 

A Nissan dealer that a friend worked for had a "new" 1994 300ZX Twin Turbo that had 150,000 miles on it. It was driven by the general manager for pretty much the duration of his employment at that dealership. It still had the window sticker in it and was never titled.It wasn’t the prettiest of wins, but it was a much needed win needed! As a fan, you take two points anyway you can get them in the NHL. This being the second half of a back to back with the Coyotes, Rangers should have beaten them pretty easily. But it was all Coyotes in the first, with the Rangers getting outshot 13-1 at one point. The Rangers didn’t even register a shot until halfway through the first period. Guess they had left their legs on the plane home from Nashville the night before?
With nothing much happening except for Igor Shesterkin getting quite the workload–the second most in a single period this season besides against the Avalanche–the Rangers finally started to play after they took a couple of penalties. It was as if a switch was flipped and the Rangers suddenly decided to play hockey. The Coyotes barely had the puck on their own power play. Add in a few Rangers odd-man rushes while shorthanded, and you have their aggressiveness waking the team up.
During one of these flurries, Mika Zibanejad “ran into” Connor Ingram, who was about 5 feet out of his crease, and was able to still draw a goalie interference penalty. I respect the NHL’s reasoning for wanting to protect the goaltenders as they are the key position in this sport. They are revered as much as the NFL protects the quarterbacks this day in age. However this call, when it is the goaltender who 100% put himself in that position to get hit, doesn’t make sense. Mika is taking the right angle and everything on the play.
The Rangers now have a much needed three days off. Their schedule has not been easy in a logistics standpoint, even if their opponents were subpar. There were some really tough losses during this stretch against teams that they should have beat. Hopefully those points don’t come back to hurt them when we are approaching playoff clinching scenario time.
This was a strong win and a good way though to end this stretch of play before they go on the west coast road trip. The games upcoming will be good tests as to how well the Rangers can rest and recover. The next game in Seattle could be a good test, as the Kraken been playing some good hockey of late. Regardless, this is a stretch the Rangers should (need?) to get 6 of 8 possible points.
The final of the Great Yarmouth Schools’ Debate Competition will pit an academy from the town against one from Caister.
Pupils from Great Yarmouth Charter Academy have won their way through to the final of the debating competition.
Year 9 pupils Georgia Harvey, Kenny Pitts, and Lauren Revell took on tough competition from Year 10 debaters from Ormiston Venture Academy.
The teams debated transgender uniform policies and the private lives of politicians in front of a judging team of local politicians.
The Charter team will now take part in the competition’s final against Caister Academy, to be held at Great Yarmouth Town Hall in March.
A spokesman for the Charter academy said: “Georgia, Kenny and Lauren Revell presented their arguments absolutely fantastically and were a credit to the academy.
SOAP BAG in ramie, a natural material. The surface of the bag can be used to gently exfoliate the skin while lathering the soap.
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We report the facial synthesis of Eu-doped MIL-53(Fe) elongated hexagonal dipyramid by solvothermal reaction of Fe(NO₃)₃, Eu(NO₃)₃ and terephthalic acid (TPA) in the presence of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The