Welcome back to the new NEFF. Take a break from Twitter and Facebook. You don't go to Dicks for your fly fishing gear, you go to your local fly fishing store. Enjoy!
Have you tried using goose or turkey biots for the abdomen? If not, try it. Makes a clean fly and floats better since you only have dubbing around the thorax of the fly.
nice flies. Does the pink help you see it better? I dont know what it is but I can't see pink posts to save my life, and strangely have found black posts to be nice on olives since they show up nicely on cloudy days when the olives tend to show up on the water.