Another Sex Parakeet

The sex parakeet has been my most productive pattern in the last year, in olives and whites. i have also done well with a black jj bugger with chartruese legs. i thought maybe i should try a black sex parakeet with chartruese legs. i have not done overly well with a plain black parakeet so i think adding the chartruese legs will due the trick. it's twice the meal of a jj bugger so it should do just fine.

Double Bunny

Been tying some double bunnies for a streamer swap that i'm hosting.

The New Year

To start off the new year me and corey braved the frigid temp's, shelf ice and anchor ice in hopes of getting into some fish. all the above made for tough fishing and very tough wading. in some spots we had to break our way through the ice shelves. once again our flies, leaders and portions of lines were engulfed in ice. me and corey hadn't fished together in over a month so it was nice to get out with him again.

Furry Fucker

Here is a nice little nymph that a friend introduced me to, although it has fished better for him then me. nice and simple. as best as i can figure is that it imitates a skinny crane fly larva.

Underbody-.015 lead wire

Body-fox squirrel dubbing

Rib-red wire

Ice Age

Met up with jerry at 8. we drove to get spiritual but that proved to be a waste. a long stretch with some great water proved to be more then we could handle as we got shut out. we headed west and decided to try an area i looked at yesterday but couldn't get in. as luck would have it, it got plowed this morning up to a certain point. when we arrived we ran into an elderly couple that live up there and b.s.'d with them for awhile. it was quite a bit colder there and after bout an hour and a half we called it. only 2 small fish to hand. it got to be to much of a pain in the ass having to de-ice our lines, leaders, indicators and i even had to put my flies in my mouth to melt all the ice off of them. it really made casting a bitch.there was lots of snow and ice on the river. the river bottom in some spots also had a lot of ice and sludge so we really had to watch our steps.

I Hate Winter

So i was on the road at 5:30 crack of dawn. i had a couple of ideas in mind that i wanted to check out. on the way i noticed a considerable larger amount of road kill, including elk and moose. once i turned off the hwy to plan 'A' i started seeing lots of elk, in fact i can guarentee i saw well over 100 head of elk, including a fair share of bulls. a lot of spikes and smaller bulls but through my binoc's i did see one 5x5 and that was the biggest that i noticed. i got to the river to find it about 75% froze over. drove to check out plan 'B', the dirt road had so much snow i couldn't get but maybe a couple hundred yards in, that wasn't cutting it. i changed cours and headed over to another piece of flowing water and although the river was open the ground took a beating from the snow. normally that is not an issue but i hate dredging through deep ass snow. the temp's were in the teens but i had sweat dripping down my face. i finally got to the river just to be surrounded by shotgun fire, it's still duck season. it made me a little nervous but i managed. i only managed 2 whole fish. on my way there i stopped for some lunch and really needed to copa squat but against my better judgement i chose to blow off the feeling. the whole time on the river my guts were churning and had to keep stopping to cross my legs to prevent any sort of catostraphy. i couldn't take it anymore and had to relieve myself. i made sure i was well out of sight, even though there was no one around. without any t.p. i had to wipe my ass with snowballs. what a treat that was, but it sufficed. the day was pretty much a waste other then scouting some other waters to find out i can't fish them. hopefully tommorrow is an improvement.

Steelhead Nymph Box

I have sold quite a few boxes of flies but this is one that did not sell. i think i'll take it steelheading with me this year.