A Grand Day (and a nice brown!)

[Andrew Mann]

I went fishing on the Grand River (Ontario) yesterday armed with a sculpin pattern I created just for the occasion. On the third drift through a productive run I hooked and landed this guy.

What a Grand day!!!

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictu ... 6451&idx=1

[brookid]

Nice! and at the hands of your own tie...

[cajundood]

Nice!!! I'm jealous

[LadyFisher]

VERY nice! Ain't it grand (pun intended.)

[Jonezee]

That is one beautiful fish! I think I am learning where the term "Bite This" came from. Your cork probably has teeth marks from holding on tight? What fly did you use?

[California Bob]

Beautiful fish...congratulations.....

[Andrew Mann]

Hey Jonzee,

I was using a sculpin pattern of my own design (a mix and match of various sculpin patterns - very easy to tie).

I turned a number of good browns yesterday (in the 15 inch range) and, as I indicated, that big one took on the third drift.

Needless to say, I'll be at the tying bench this weekend making a few more of those little gems!

Cheers,
Andrew

[RonMT]

Nice fish for sure Good On Ya. How did that cork grip taste? Ron

[gonfishn]

fishy! it tasted fishy!
Nice fish.I just moved from my tying desk where I was experimenting with a new sculpin pattern also.I'm using magnetic tape as a base to give the fly a really broad flat profile,takes awhile for the epoxy to set up in the prep work but the finished flies look pretty good.Hopefully I will get to try them out this weekend.

[akalooker]

Hey Andrew,

Are my eyes deceiving me, or is that a piece of cane that you caught that fine Brown on?

Give us the 411 on your stick!

Terry