Big Rods and Silver Fish Jump like a Willy's in Four Wheel Drive

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Big Rods and Silver Fish
Just reminiscing abut times gone by, pretty fish, big rods, colorful flies and the like. Got some pretty pictures in there, though.

#flyfishing #AtlanticSalmon #Steelhead #SpeyCasting #flytying
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Yellow owl Diawl Bach and a Hares ear Diawl Bach #flytying

Selection of Irish Mayflies #flytying

Have no suitable hair for elk hair caddis. Pheasant t Tail Caddis? Why not? #flytying

Aught...
I may as well share these alders.

I'm trying to design a better option.
Alder flies, they're due to hatch out late april....
They look nice...

I dressed these earlier tonight.
#flytying

Tying some nymphs based on notes and observations from past journal entries. Hopefully these bad boys will produce some fish! Fingers crossed…
#flytying #flypatterns #kamloops #flyfishing #trout #fishing #rainbowtrout #hanakhooks

Fish Food…

Small & Scruffy Rainbow, size 18.

#flytying #buggyAF

I’ve been exclusively fly fishing for a few years now but never been interested in tying my own flies. Having gear fished my whole life, I just buy what I need. Welp, I tried it. It ain’t pretty, but it’s mine. And I immediately understand why it’s fun. #flyfishing #flytying #pnw #bluesky

French Partridge…

Always Mayfly Time.

#partridgeAF #flytying

Spending more time at the fly tying bench these days makes me realize just how much I enjoy fly tying and playing around with patterns, materials, and hooks.

How about you? Do you find more inspiration at certain times of the year??
#flytying #flyfishing #kamloops #trout #fishing #rainbowtrout

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Random klinkhammers

Bulk without actual bulk.

Big water fly.

Spring steelhead season is here.

#flytying #flyfishing #steelheadflies

"Fishing is my therapy" bothers me It's not a replacement for penicillin, or a good therapist, but for the next few weeks we'll be sharing all the proof you need that fly fishing is good for your physical and mental health.

ICYMI: This month we're detailing all the physical and mental health benefits that come with building a fishing practice: www.currentflowstate.com/hearing-fly-... #flyfishing #flytying

Tied some Synthetic Clousers tonight. Striped bass on the brain. #flytying

Caddis Emerger

#flyfishing
#flytying #troutflies #dryfly #caddis

A few balanced minnow fly fishing hooks stuck into a cork.

Gathering my school of minnows.

#flytying

Some simple steelhead flies from one of our fly tying nights.

#flyfishing #flytying #bc

#flytying caddis fun

Last weekend the trout were preoccupied with a little buzzer.
I went back today to give the raven's a few eggs😊
I managed to see the fly today, black butt, green body, blae wing and ginger legs.
#flytying #trout

Aspects of a Dry Fly A Look at the Fundamental Qualities - Part 4 of N

Restacking another old post from a year ago. It'll soon be dry fly time.

#flyfishing #dryfly #trout #flytying

Aspects of a Dry Fly
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With the wind too fierce to fish, time at the vise with tunes works just fine

#flytying #ermergers #flyfishing #atthevise

Brown water catfish fly.
Anchovy Minnow -- where sente means scents make cents.

#flytying
#flyfishing

Great day on the river with Lake Erie run steelhead
#flyfishing #birds #flytying

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Fly tying 20 years ago: 80% skill, 20% artistic flair.

Fly tying now: 10% skill, 90% squinting and hoping.

#flytying #flyfishing

I find that I am much more inspired to sit down at my vise and tie flies when it finally feels as if spring has arrived and reports of ice-free lakes start trickling in...
#kamloops #flyfishing #flytying #trout
#stillwaterfishing

This 1977 #FlyTying #book has lots of #diagrams to help you learn this almost lost #art. $25. #Booksky #fishing #angling #lures #flies

Craft Fur Clouser Minnows. Got a couple patches of Rainys Craft and finally putting it to use. These are tied on a size 2 Gamakatsu SC15 and are about 2.5”. #flyfishing #flytying #saltwaterflyfishing #stripedbassonfly