Monday
Nov302009

Snow Creek

Wednesday
Nov182009

SloughVette

Won’t make the jump to light speed but she is stealthy.

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Wednesday
Nov182009

Paying Dues

bass pond

I know they’re in here.

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Wednesday
Oct212009

Downs Lake

 

Sitting in my canoe I am surrounded by scab rock and sage and green hills and pines and hundreds of acres of water.

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Tuesday
Apr222008

Into The Mouths Of Trouts


#12 TMC 900BL, mallard flank, rusty/brown dubbing, brown polypro yarn.

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Monday
Apr212008

Skwala Style

Sunday
Apr202008

Big River


ranch creek

Claire is my favorite wife. I'm not supposed to make that sort of distinction but there it is.

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Tuesday
Mar182008

Bull!

 Salvelinus confluentus

Tuesday
Feb262008

Lost Fly

Last seen at the end of fairly well executed double spey this Super Prawn was plucked from the end of my leader half way thought the swing.

Friday
Feb152008

Winter Carp

Angling for thee winter carp is a gamble on the account of all the ducks that that have to be rowed up; sun, water, ice and wind have to be proportioned just right.

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Friday
Dec212007

Hopper Water

Somewhere out there (in the southern hemisphere) is a piece of water that looks like this and is fishing well with terrestrials.

Wednesday
Dec192007

Renegade


Renegade

hook: TMC 900BL
tag: gold tinsel
aft hackle: brown rooster saddle
body: peacock herl, 4 strands
fore-hackle: white rooster saddle

Invented by Taylor "Beartracks" Williams in 1928, the Renegade should be the Idaho state bird.

Friday
Nov302007

"Suh-low"

"The most basic moves practiced over and over again become the most advanced moves." Or something like that. The first few casts were rough but I got the fly out there, which in the end is all that really matters. Then I slowed things down a bit and started thinking about the different parts of my cast.

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Thursday
Nov292007

Old Timey: Finn Style

Opax-Fly Fishing busts out some tradition and heritage in his latest post. He takes us to and gives us a quick tour of the joint. He then finishes with this brilliant observation.

The tradition of fly-fishing is not static. It lives and evolves as we read, write, talk, and dream about it.

 

 

Tuesday
Nov272007

Sunfish


trophy bluegill?

Sometimes I have an itch that only dozens of hand sized, popper eating blugills can scratch.

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Tuesday
Nov272007

A River Ain't Too Much To Love

Tuesday
Nov202007

Greatest Band in the West

 

Off work at 5:00 am, insert road tunes, merge onto highway. Interstate-90, eastbound. Yakima, Coeur d'Alene, St. Joe, Clark Fork, Kelly Creek, Bitterroot, Blackfoot, Rock Creek, Madison, Jefferson, Gallatin, Yellowstone, Boulder, Stillwater and rivers east; take your pick. The only hard part is coming back.

 

Friday
Nov092007

The Making Of Souphole

You’ve just killed a moose. Hungry, you’ve a hankering for nothing quite as much as some hot soup, flavored perhaps with wild leeks whose flat leaves you see wavering nearby.

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Thursday
Nov082007

Reminder


Trout love ants.

hook: TMC 100
body: antron, black
hackle: black saddle

 

Monday
Oct152007

The Upper

You sing happy birthday to the kid then you're out the door

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