and John's other creation, the pine squirrel cheater, went south too

[herefishy]

and caught lots of fishies.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

If there's no pictures, it didn't happen.

[quivira kid]

No pics = no fish!

[jimsnarocks]

Herefishy, Johnscott sent me some pine squirrel strips and the recipe for that fly. I've caught fish with the PSC here, in the Sierra Nevadas and I'm fixing to take some with me to Idaho to see if they work for me there as well as they did for John. Jim

[herefishy]

That was my only problem with the PSC, Jim, was finding pine squirrel strips - had to wait till I was in Arkansas, and they had all kinds there, skinny ones, fat ones, and the inbetweeners, these worked best, I think.

[Betty Hiner]

Karen,
If you run out of pine squirrel strips let me know. I can get them, locally, in any number of different colors, and will be happy to send them down. Those PSC work well here, too!!!!

[herefishy]

Thanks, Betty, I have quite a few right now, but will have to see how many I lose on rocks, logs, trees, and maybe a fish or two.

[Chuck441]

O.K. This is a tease thread, right?

Chuck

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Chuck,

Yup. John Scott's Pine Squirrel Cheater is a great fly though. I have them in my box in black, olive and brown.

REE

[herefishy]

The psc was a FOTW recently, I think, and was on one of John's fishing reports - but it couldn't be easier - take a pine squirrel strip in olive or black and tie it down at the back, leaving a tail a little shorter than the hook shank, then make another few wraps about the mididle of the shank, then palmer the strip up to the head area and tie off - wow, it doesn't get any easier, and works, too - I just don't take pics.