Vol. 13 No. 46

THE BASICS

I won’t get a chance to fish much this season. I will however make the most of the days I have on the water!

One of the highlights of the season will be a stint on my home waters with Liliane’s Girls! I offered a weekend of fishing to the Gals at Christmas so we’ll be up on the water in early September! Now to get them ready.

PALE MORNING DUNS (part 4)

There are several factors that the angler must consider when fishing dry mayfly imitations over selectively feeding trout. Approach, presentation, line control, pattern selection, tackle considerations, and an understanding of the trout all play a part in the success or failure of the angler.

THE FIRST TENKARA ROD

"And how you should make your rod skillfully, here I will teach you. You must cut, between Michaelmas and Candlemas, a fair staff, a fathom and a half long and as thick as your arm."

TO LAUGH OR NOT TO LAUGH

The truth is I did get my laugh for the day, or maybe the week. We had gone out to the creek
(DePuy Spring Creek) so I could get a little water practice casting with my left hand or using a very controlled, elbow-in-no-shoulder-motion right handed casting. [Bad shoulder – you know]

SHORTENED BY WIND

It was a day off and it was time to hit a pond. It was still too wet to drive in anywhere and put the canoe in. The way the rains have been coming, with the amounts we get, may make this a summer that the canoe never hits the water. What a horrible thought!

CLEAR LAKE TAIL

One beautiful sunny day in 1964, a buddy and I are fishing a clear mountain lake in Jasper National Park, Canada. We are anchored off a weed bed, casting nymphs to feeding trout. Looking back to the road and the parking area, we see another fisherman studying us through binoculars. We keep fishing and very soon “The Peeper”, in a canoe, approaches and hails us:

Flamingos

Cartoon by
Neil Sutherland

POLAR COMMANDER

This fly was created by commercial tyer Jay Neve from Bellevue, Michigan and fly tyer Don Fox from Chassell, Michigan. This fly was developed as a night fishing fly for the nocturnal Pteronarcys dorsata, the Midwestern or giant salmon fly.

IN THE CORNER

The air was cool in the pre-dawn July morning, as I stepped to water’s the edge and the soles of my waders settled into the gravel. I was in a tee-shirt, but realized that in short order the sun would rise and I would go from chilly-to-sweating in short-order.

ATLANTIC FLY TYING CONTEST

The flies are in and it's time to vote for your favorite.

Look them over and get your vote emailed to Ronn before the 9th!