I came up with this pattern a while back; a few of you suggested submitting it to the Fly Of The Week.   One of my friends asked me to make them a crayfish pattern, and this is what I came up with.

I use this fly as a retreating crayfish, stripping a little line at a time. The head is weighted so the tail end jerks up and back, while the claws point downward. You shouldadjust the colors and hook size to imitate your local crawdads.

I was going to the second pond that the landowner had told me about. He has been watering out of this pond. This pond is down about four feet. I had a little trouble getting the canoe into the pond because there was a lot of mud around the edge.

Don't ask me why, but I only had two rods with me. One bamboo with a white boa yarn leech on it and a graphite with an experimental fly on it. I decided to use the white boa yarn fly first. I want to go with a fly that I know first to see if the fish are biting.

We lived in the Saginaw Valley area where father worked as a swamper in the logging industry till around 1869 when we moved to the Au Sable Valley where father found work as a deadhead picker; a little more dangerous, but the pay was better.

Golden Dorado are native to South America in a relatively small geographic region that includes Northern Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil and some small pockets in Bolivia. Most of the fisheries are located in the Paraná River and its tributaries. There are also a few pockets of the species in Bolivia at the headwaters of the Amazon basin. Dorado are river fish and have a similar profile as that of a salmon including an adipose fin.

This is a highly original and interesting volume on the creative and artistic design of Atlantic Salmon Flies. Volume One contains 15 Flies representing 15 Birds. For the past decade Paul has been on the cutting edge of designing patterns that fully celebrate the texture and colors in the feathers that are available to the fly tier.

Hatch: Fall BWO can be seen from September around Paradise Valley and Yellowstone National Park, so it's safe to say that BWO hatch is in full-swing at DePuy's when the winter-rate starts on October 15th. It usually lasts till middle of November. Only one limiting factor is the infamous SW gusts through Paradise Valley. I don't mind fishing in those windy days as I know trout are in the creek but gusts seem to blow all the insects away to Canada.

Pulling my truck into the parking lot along Tulpehocken Creek in Central Pennsylvania I found myself lacing up my boots alongside several early morning joggers. Gone was the half dozen or so fisherman you would expect to find through early fall. The leaves were all off the trees now, and the hatch activity could be expected to have gone along with them. We had been fortunate up until now to only have a few frosty mornings and maybe an inch of snow on a few blustery days so far.

Punxsutawney Phil recently predicted an early spring and just the thought of the coming spring usually sets the mind of dedicated fly rodders reeling [no pun intended] with thoughts of the coming fly fishing season. If this describes you then now is the time to start making your plans, especially if those plans involve a trip to a new place. However, even if your upcoming fly fishing adventures only consists of day trips to your favorite local fishing hole now is the time to make certain that you have what you need to make the most of each trip.