One fun upside from tying flies is I can add my own strike triggers. After reading Jason Randall’s Feeding Time, which is excellent, I try to incorporate certain triggers in my flies. I weaved in some for yesterday’s “hot” streamer. I’m not sure why my this new streamer duped 12 fish yesterday. But, when I
Category: Flies and fly tying
The Sex Dungeon Streamer
I told Damon Matus, a fellow BlogFlyFish.com teammate, that I was going to break my “fish only what I tie” rule. For articulated streamers, I was planning on throwing store-bought ones. After all, they’re reasonably priced, take a long time to make, and require some investment in new materials. I was resolved to do the
Lost and Found: Fly Box at the Swift River
I found a small brown fly box floating in the Swift River below Route 9. There’s no name in it, but there are some nice flies. See the picture below. It was well-camouflaged in an eddy on the side of the river, and it looks like it may have been there for a while. If
Flies with a Twist
It was a pretty chill outing at the Farmington yesterday. There have been fewer anglers, bugs, rises, and landed trout with each passing week. And, yesterday, that trend continued. I threw wets (again) to test some new flies and saw a modest volume of fish. I think we’re in the fall “shoulder season,” as most