Baitfish

Here are a few new baitfish patterns that can be used to fish for anything that can fit it in its mouth. I tied these for a friend that fishes for stripers, but also for either muskie or large bass. They don't have a lot of material which makes it good for casting long distances.

Deep Water Egg

I made this egg pattern as a fly that has a good appearance in the water as well as a weighted egg that doesn't need additional weight.

Step 1: Slide an orange led bead onto the hook of the shank.

Step 2: Make a thread base in front of the bead and then make a thread base behind the bead to keep it in place

Step 3: tie down egg yarn

Step 4: fold over the yarn and push it back to make a bubble 

Step 5: repeat step 4 but make the bubble of yarn overtop of the bead 

Step 6: repeat step 4 in front of the bead

Step 7: tie off the yarn and whip finish. Cut both the thread and the yarn.

Finished eggs after put in water.

Redfish

While in Florida, I managed to sneak a half day of fishing on the flats in. Finally I got my shot at saltwater fish. I was chasing redfish on the nearby flats of Captiva Island. The trip started off as expected; a lot of wind, and long casts. This was not as big as a challenge as one would expect, especially after casting a 10 wt, 400 grain sinking line, a 16 inch fly, and a lot of wind fishing for muskie. The day started off slow, but picked up a little later on and when it picked up it was some serious fishing. At the end of the trip I came to the conclusion that not many fish fight like a redfish on the flats. Enjoy!

Too Much Rain

It is that time of year again, where the last thing I want here in Massachusetts is rain, and after Irene there has been sporadic downpours that have left the lower Deerfield high and muddy, and with no car, the fishing options are slim to none. Back home, 600 miles away in Ohio, there has been a record rainfall which has welcomed group after group of steelhead. Metalhead has been played on repeat to keep me sane, but even that is doing little to keep me from wanting to fly home and go swing some flies in pursuit of fresh chrome. In the downtime I have reorganized my fly boxes to many times to count and scraped a little time up to tie. The tying has been reasonably random in the types of streamers. A few steelhead flies have been tied but a few good baitfish patterns have been tied, a good sculpin pattern, and a crayfish that has two rattles in the head to make it sound realistic.

Short Post

Its been awhile since I have been able to post. It was a busy summer, but I now have some fresh pictures to upload. A while ago I attended guide school at Hubbards lodge in Montana. It was a great experience and met a lot of great people there. I fished some good water and had a great time. Here are some pictures, there will be more to come. tight lines. I have a bunch of fly tying posts coming soon.

Is There A Similarity Between The Two?

Its Shark Week and it looks like sharks "sip" dries just like trout

PA Run

This past weekend I made a quick run to Pennsylvania to throw some flies at trout. I hadn't fished for trout in awhile so I needed to get my fix. To sum it up it was a great trip. I met Jared and Mike from Brooks Browns and Bows (brooksbrownsandbows.blogspot.com). Its a sick blog full of good fish pics. Took a half day sunday and went to fish the Yough and it was good. About half way through fishing it, I decided that I wanted to run a dry-dropper rig, so I tied on a hopper and a nymph. The nymph got tangled so I decided just to clip the dropper off. Not feeling a fly change I stuck with a hopper and on a long drift a good sized brown came up and pounded it. Larry and I both thought it was a fluke that we caught a fish on a hopper but that didn't matter, we took what we could get after all, trout don't come easy in August. I kept the hopper on and a few more fish took it off the surface to end the day. The next day, monday, we headed to Maryland to fish the Savage. Upon arrival I could understand why it was worth the drive. It is by far one of the coolest streams I have ever fished. No fish in the first small run and pockets of water, but when we waded up to a little bit bigger of a run, we saw a few fish rising. Larry said that the fish in this hole were just uncooperative, so mostly as a joke I decided to throw a hopper on and see what would happen. For those who have never fished or heard of the savage it is a tailwater stream in the mountains, meaning there are virtually no grasshoppers around, but I threw one anyways, and like the fish on the Yough, the wild savage browns liked my hopper too. Now whoever actually read all this I applaud you. It is safe to say that I wouldn't have read something this long, and I would have just skipped to the pictures but this was the shortest way possible to explain this weekend of fishing. Enjoy the pics.