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Hook-mustad 79580 size 6 Body-Bull Elk clipped to shape and colored with red Wet n Wild Nail Color Arrow-Red hackle stripped Thread-Heavy black for spinning the body and red 6/0 for the head :D

Congrats Andy.

Thanks for posting 126barns...good to know that we have inspired people on the east coast...keep your posts coming, I for one would love to know more about fly fishing the salt in your part of the country...and keep posting those flies of yours (they are great).

WOW!! Your going to have a great time...looking forward to hearing all about it and seeing some great pics.

They look great.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

What's this 90's stuff I got Cortland lines that date back to the 70's and they still outperform anything SA puts out today :D

I'm with you :lol: Cortland the only way to go.

I too have checked it out...You raise a very good point...anyone who has hooked a good fish after stripping in a large amount of line will know just how quickly you can burn or even cut yourself as the line at your feet is peeled off by a running fish if you are not careful or until you are able to play the fish from your reel...Imagine a line the texture of sandpaper...in my opinion it will cut exposed skin.

Thunder Creek patterns are some of my favorite for Bull Trout, Brown Trout, and Big Bows...This one is tied on a 2/0 hook and is deadly for big bulls.

Art Michaluk Sedge I met Art through my long time friend and fishing buddy and although I didn’t know him all that well he made a large impression on me, so I wanted to honor him by posting his Sedge pattern. The Sedge came into being while he was camping at a lake north of Kamloops. I have seen lots of imitations in books of his pattern, however none have captured it correctly. My pattern is close, but no one ties it the way Art did. Art clipped the hackle short under the eye which I chose not to do. Hook-Mustad 94831 size 10 Thread-black Tail-Elk with the natural curve upwards Body-Olive Dub Wings-Elk-two wings one slightly ahead of the other with the natural curve of the Elk down and melding with tail to form one wing Hackle-brown saddle

Well baring a miracle, and with only half an hour to go till nine...I think it's time to congratulate Don on his victory and Terry for second, and every one else for sharing such great patterns.

You are correct regs are regs and should be followed and enforced, who said otherwise?

This implies that only salmon spawning streams are the ones that have fly fish only regs on them and that is not the case...and as far as snagging is concerned far more fish especially salmon are foul hooked casting and retrieving streamers thru them on sinking or sink tip lines, when they are stacked up as you have suggested...And I am just curious as to were I have made reference in my original post to the B.C. regs. and nymphing slow pools for salmon? For that matter where have I mentioned in said post, fishing in B.C. ?

For me beads are more for attracting fish, than weight...If I need to get down, I wrap the shaft of the hook with weight when tying, and I keep my flies as sparse as possible, or I will add weight to the leader (where applicable and legal)...In still waters the weight of the bead becomes more applicable, especially when suspending a fly or flies below an indicator...beads were not widely used when I learned to fly fish, and we still caught lots of fish...so I guess when all is said and done, fish can and will be caught with or without beads.

A brand spanking new outfit consisting of a Sage 9ft. 6wt...a Hardy Marquis 6 reel loaded with a Cortland fly line and backing, all of which fell out of my canoe when I wasn't paying attention...a pair of sunglasses, and a fishing hat...I guess when you consider how long I've been fishing, that's not to bad.

Looking pretty good...nice job...after clipping some hair run a comb through it, that will take out the body fur...any cheap comb will do.

Welcome to the site Fishietails.

Nice fish...WOW!!!

I've never fished them through the ice, but I have fished them on a full sink fly line stripping a big old leech pattern along the bottom...and done quite well....so I am sure that if you turn you're jig into a leech pattern it will work.

Happy birthday Dave...Have a great day!

Hook-Mustad CO68 size 18 Thread-black Body-striped peacock herl Gill-white Thorax-peacock herl Bead-gold

Nice fish...What a great way to start the year off.

Sorry to hear about your friend, Gary, but glad you were able to share quality time fishing together. It was great to meet up with Lone Fisher and Glenbow at K Lakes....spent a lot of time on Vancouver Island fishing both salt and fresh water...Caught a nice 20 inch bow on a beautiful Island stream while fishing for sea run cuts and was told by locals even though it was small for a steelhead, in fact that is what it was (my first Steelhead)...Fished the salt for Pinks, and Coho....Pink fishing was not as good as previous years but I still managed to do well....Coho fishing on the other hand was stellar!!! Many fish were caught ranging from approximately 6lb. up to 15 or so lb's....back in Alberta I fished the Bow and caught some very nice browns and bows....I enjoyed meeting and fishing with several board members while on the Bow....the solstice fish out on the Crow was great...fishing was tough but the company was great....my thanks to Lone Fisher and Hawgstoppah and all those that showed up....Gary

Great news....I guess I will have to forgo Bullshead for Police which really isn't a hard thing to do....Sorry Harps