As during last summer, I’m starting to feel the “dries or die” urge. I’ve done a lot of tightlining this season, and I love fishing my Thomas & Thomas and Syndicate specialty rods. I avoid indicators as much as I can. But, I really do love fishing small dries. It was a great coda to
At the Bench: the Renegade
In some back and forth in the comments from the last post, I realized I forgot to write about a new dry fly in the box: the Renegade. I’m a big fan of attractor patterns, and I like Catskill-style dries for choppy water. For a recent fishing trip I decided to make just one Renegade
The Sparkle Dun
Family hike today, and so, this is a short post. I love dries that sit in the surface film. Catskill-style flies have their place, too, but I tend to avoid them except for very choppy water. Here is a great video for making the Sparkle Dun. I love the technique for securing the deer hair
At the Bench: CDC Midge Emergers
For fun, I again am making some small CDC midge emergers. If you fish tailwaters, midges are ubiquitous. I’ve seen clouds of them hatching in the mornings at the Farmington, and a midge pupa is an extremely effective dropper fly for nymphing there. Midge larvae and pupae are in the drift all day. At times,