There are some big differences: --Both open waters are geyser-heated and never get under 45 degrees. I will go so far as to say that the Gardner will be BETTER than the Paradise Valley Spring Creeks...
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There are some big differences: --Both open waters are geyser-heated and never get under 45 degrees. I will go so far as to say that the Gardner will be BETTER than the Paradise Valley Spring Creeks...
Holy cripes yes. It won't REVOLUTIONIZE my business, because it's not like there will be a mad rush of people eager to fish from December through February, but the increase in business should be a...
Yellowstone National Park is opening some waters to year-round fishing beginning May 25 (really November 1, since the general season opens the 25th). This is the first time in many decades year-round...
I tie them with a longer and heavier wing, shorter and heavier tail, and sparser hackle (3-4 turns only) palmered through a contrasting and brighter thorax, Stimulator-style. I almost never use the...
I could see that working in the appropriate size for both October Caddis and Salmonflies, though I'd certainly swap the wing for bronze mallard if I actually intended to fish something so pretty.
I need to try that on the Firehole.
I haven't been posting them here as of late, but I have been posting weekly tying videos on Youtube since the beginning of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_wj0pKTdblPKIP4lTf4Vw
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That'd be a great October fly on the Madison, maybe tied a size or two smaller to better "match" the October Caddis. (Not really enough October Caddis to make for good fishing around here in general,...
I use synthetics almost exclusively on all dry fly wings now. About the only hairwing flies I tie in quantities of more than a dozen or so a year (and we're talking commercial tying here) are blond...
Okay I'm bookmarking this one. Swap everything for olive and tie it with a long tail on a #12 Dai-Riki #285 and that will crush it as a damsel nymph.
I'll be giving a fly tying demo from 10AM to noon at Peak Fly Shop in Colorado Springs on February 2. I'll be tying "Tourist Season Flies for the Yellowstone River," with a heavy emphasis on dries.
Now I'm empty. To think I give Richard a hard time because he can't figure out how to use the shop's Google account...
...You're out of message room and I need your address to send you some foam. Sorry for the forum hijack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfNxD-wSMw&t=6s
This is the old-style version of this pattern. I believe Blue Ribbon Flies now ties it with a Zelon wing and tail rather than the Krystal Flash....
Got the foam Thursday, Scott. I will send some gold, "lemon ice," "moss green," and a couple packs of MFC's new foto-foam that will make great Carnages.
The pattern looks a heck of a lot more...
They are only sold direct, and no they're not cheap. I have put something like 25,000 hooks through my pro jaws and there is only one noticeable ding. Doug also ties on one, and Byron might as well?
The only reason I didn't use a UV resin on the wingcase was where I used to tie... right in the window of the fly shop. I am late to the UV game because of that, though I intend to experiment now...
I still travel with the J Vise. :)
That said, I also still have my Griffin Montana Mongoose. Fits in a little plastic case like a pistol case and comes with both a clamp and a pedestal. That said,...
Doug:
Why? Cam Traveler was the worst rotary vise I ever owned. The jaws fell apart (exploded in my hands) after two years and they wouldn't help me in any way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZbIpf5_Iqk
Allen:
It's a standard .mpg. The camera is a Sony Vixia HF10 from 2008.
Virtually everything contemporary on the web is in html5. It's not a video format, it's a coding format for websites...
Doing vids again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZ8EnLNmbI
SIMMS makes their Intruder boots with integrated gravel guards. Per pair they're like 2.6lbs. I bought them intending to use them only for hike-in trips but I use them all the time. These are now my...
This science has been known anecdotally to those of us who live here for at least ten years. Probably more like 15. When I first started fishing here on family trips from 93 to 99, the streamside...
The world's entire supply of Zelon is owned by Blue Ribbon Flies and Betts. It was I believe a 3M product discontinued in the 80s.