Last autumn, I landed my personal best trout. It was a 22″ buck brown. I couldn’t believe my luck. View this post on Instagram Orange did well last autumn. So, tying some more #Perdigones with orange hot spots. #flyfishing #flytying #orvis A post shared by BlogFlyFish.com (@blogflyfish) on Aug 29, 2017 at 12:22pm PDT The
Tag: farmington river nymphs
Prepping for Tricos
With reports of Tricos starting to hatch on the Farmington, I’ve been re-loading the fly boxes. Last August, the Trico hatches and spinner falls were ridiculous. One of the best flies was Ed Engle’s Drowned Trico Spinner (prior post with a how-to video here). It features a segmented and thin body from wire, which helps
Pheasant Tail Variants
I’m continuing to tie flies with different colors. As I wrote yesterday, I’m doing this for experimentation, but, also, to have something different to throw to pressured fish. “Variants” have been very effective (prior post here). I think the ol’ Pheasant Tail is a great fly pattern. I like making them on barbless and curved
More on Purple
When water gets lower and the fish have seen oodles of flies, I try to throw nymphs that are a bit different. As I’ve blogged before, the color blue works well in winter (post here). I also have been working with purple (prior post here). Purple Pheasant Tails can be deadly, for example. Here is