STREAMERS

STREAMERS

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Yella Dog, Furnace Green, Nisqually Sunset, Friday Streamer

YELLA DOG STREAMER

Hook:  #10 Daiichi 2370 Dick Talleur 7X

Thread:  6/0 Black Uni-thread

Rib & Tag:  Medium Gold Tinsel

Throat:  Red Tippet

Underwing:  Red Bucktail under 4-5 Pheasant Tails fibers (Gold Dyed)

Wing:  Yellow-Dyed Badger Brahma

Shoulder: Yellow-dyed Indian Neck

Furnace Green recipe

Hook:  Daiichi 2720 Dick Talleur Streamer Hook

Thread:  8/0 Black Uni-thread

Body: Gold Mylar / Green Uni-Floss

Throat:  Red Bucktail

Underwing: Olive Bucktail / Natural Pheasant Tail

Wing:  Furnace / Greenwell Hackle

Cheek:  Hen Pheasant Shoulder

Nisqually Sunset recipe

Hook:  #10 - #6 Daiichi 2370 7X Long
Thread:  Black
Body:  Orange Uni-Floss
Rib:  Gold Oval Tinsel
Under-wing:  Rootbeer Bucktail
Wing:  Cree or Grizzly Hackle 2-each side
Cheek:  Partridge
Eye:  Starling

Friday Streamer Recipe

Hook:  #6-4 Daiichi 2370 7X

Thread:  6/0 Black

Rib:  Fine Silver Tinsel

Body:  Blue Floss

Belly:  Red Bucktail

Back: Rootbeer Bucktail

Wing:  Grizzly Hen

Shoulder:  Ringneck Rump

Tying The Foam Diver

The Foam Diver

If you are intimidated by spinning deer hair, or using an Xacto knife or dremmel to carve balsa & punched foam, THIS is your diver pattern. 

Durable, floats low, dives perfectly and brings fish to the top.

Foam Diver Recipe

Hook: #2 Gamakatsu Stinger 

Thread:  Black 3/0 Uni-thread

Tail:  Olive Bucktail / Yellow-Barred Neck Hackle

Legs:  Medium Bared-Centipede

Abdomen:  Medium Chenille

Body:  2mm Fly Foam 

Frogs, Wogs & A Couple Cocktails

The Replacements

Frogs, Wogs & A Couple Cocktails

The sign of a good summer, is the need to replenish fly boxes weekly.

Frogs and Wogs have been bringing them to the top. The Cocktails?.....Well, you just never know when you may need a couple cocktails.  :)

The Stren Connection

Occasionally, I will in an attempt to rationalize this stuff we call fly fishing, appear to apply common sense.  Not too often mind you, or it may begin to become "expected". And that's simply a fools errand when associated with our beloved piscatorial pursuit.

That being said, I have admittedly departed from the social norms surrounding what we refer to as leaders and tippets. Partly because it's just too damned easy. But mostly because it just plain old works. Lets call it......

"The Stren Connection"

Having fished twisted leaders for some time now (with several posts relating to them), This winter and since has found me solidly in the camp of a particular leader for ALL of my warm water fishing, and most of my cold water nymphing.

A few attributes to this particular leader:

• Very durable, which is extremely important withe warm water applications
• Rolls over up to #2 Poppers and Deer hair bugs very well, while still providing an accurate and delicate presentation with smaller flies when needed.
• Just the right amount of stretch. this leader protects tippets, but also holds up to dragging bass though lily pad tangles.
• Easy to reproduce. No jigs. You can build them while watching TV, with 18' of mono, a #16 Micro barrel swivel and your fingers
• Affordable. materials for 18 leaders will cost you $10.25

Couple that with Stren Fluorocast fluorocarbon line/tippet ($4.99 for a 100yd spool) and it has proven to be the perfect combination for most all heavy applications on my 5-7wt rigs.

Who said fly fishing needed to be expensive or complicated? I have used the same leader and 4lb Fluorocast tippet for all of my nymphing, since this past winter.  

Attached is the formula for twisting them up:

Dawn on the Pond

Dawn on the Pond

With the day expected to be in the mid-90's by noon, I figured first few rays of light would be the only bearable time to be on the water.  The day greeted me with a handful of bass on top.

The Wog was the fly of the day. They ignored the FBC and any bassbugs I threw at them. They would rise, and sink back down. 

Off the water by 8:30, already wet through.

Coming Soon!!! "SUMMER BUGS A Warmwater Fly Box"

New Release!

Coming in August

Lightning in a Tube

A Warrior

This single fly survived a 3 hour non-stop assault by hungry bluegills.  

Had to get a pic....colors were really cool. They were hungry as the storm approached.

A 3 hour race to dark as storms rolled in. Just as I had released a fish, static shot across the water  that actually caused the nylon on the float tube to make a crinkling noise and the hair on my forearms stood up. Then seconds later a wind picked up and a low rumble rolled. Taking my queue from mother nature, I turned my fins toward the truck. The lightning arrived as I was knee-deep at the launch and gathering my gear.  But not before the night offered up 20-plus gills and a handful of 1/2lb bass.

Bass, Gills and Jersey Heat

Bass, Gills and Jersey Heat

In the water at 07:00 and out by 09:30 at 90 degrees 

The water as the heat came marching in

6-or-7 bass on the morning

The 2 best bulls on the morning took a liking to the Wog. 

About a dozen Gills in all, with a mix of Wogs and FBC's doing all the heavy lifting

Keep Kicking My Friends