mikes midge

for me the best midge pattern i have ever fished. i created this pattern shortly after i got to utah, combining a k.f. flasher, a foam wing emerger and a zebra midge. i tie it in brown, red, grey, black and olive.

hook-18-22 scud hook

body-10/0 thread

rib-small silver wire

under wing-4 strands krystal flash

over wing-white foam clipped short

head-brown krystal hares ear dubbing

Royal Flush

Another pattern that has fished pretty well here in utah

hook-size 14 scud
tail-orange pheasant tippet
body-3-4 strands of peacock herl
thorax-6 strands of peacock herl
rib-small red wire
collar-partidge hackle
shellback-white z-lon
head-gold bead

A Waddington Shank and a Steelhead Fly

A lot of people are not sure what a waddington shank is. i tie a lot of steelhead patterns with them and some of my trout streamers with them. you can tie some big patterns with them.

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Modified Hares Ear

This pattern has been one of the most productive nymphs for me in quite sometime.

Tail-hungarian partridge

Body-natural hares ear

Thorax-krystal natural hares ear

Rib-gold wire

Shellback-holographic tinsel over the body and thorax

Bead-gold

sex parakeet/deer hair head

i tied this one with a deer hair head and now it doesn't look much like a parakeet so i'll stick to the wool head

Doesn't Make Sense

brrrrrr



was 4-5 redds in there last week. almost dried up




A redd almost dried up






Me and jerry went to a section on the weber that fished well and was flowing well last wednsday, only to see that the flows had been dramatically dropped, basically to summer flows. with the amount of water that was there you would have thought that the river was diverted for irrigation. seeings how irrigation is not an issue at this time of year i don't understand why the flows were reduced so much. it certainly has to hurt the brown spawn since a lot of the redds that held fish last week were now either on dry land or almost dry. we had started up higher on the weeb where there was plenty of water, but the fish weren't hitting anything which is why we moved downriver. just doesn't make sense to me. it really kinda pisses me off actually.