Weekend Humpy

When you have two small (2 and 4-years-old) children, and you finally have a weekend without them, you feel that you have all the time in the world. Finally some much needed quality time with your wife, time to drink beer, tie beautiful flies, and write the greatest blog entry ever.

Then you find out that you just lie in the bed, drink beer, look at a beautiful fly and know that you are never going to write the greatest blog entry ever.

So, you decide to write a blog entry and share a picture of a beautiful size 16 Humpy that is tied by Jay Lee from the Netherlands.

Casting practice

Following my master plan, I was practicing my casting yesterday. I prefer to do it at the river using actual flies (I think I lost about half dozen streamers).



There were few fishermen at the river--a bit early I’d say, better wait for a while until the fishing is good.



But it was a perfect day for casting practice. I had sunshine, light winds, heavy winds, light snow, heavy snow, and a thermos of cold coffee.



It was a great day, not for mankind but for me.

The Fly Line of Many Colors

It may be, that Mike has The Lanyard of Power, but behold: The Fly Line of Many Colors!

We, scavengers

My favorite tackle shop will close its doors at the end of this month. Liquidation sales are currently at -60%. I feel bad for the owners. They have worked years for the business. I talked with one I know better. He has something else to do, which is a comfort, but you just can’t get a way with this kind of incident without any scars.

I bought a fly line for my rod in making: a fast sinking head weight forward line. I wasn’t the only scavenger at the carcass.

Winter's Magic. Tied by Levern Burm

From Fly-patterns

Hook: TMC 3761/3769
Abdomen: Holographic tinsel
Thorax/under wing: Cascade crest trilobal synthetic hackle, chartreuse
(1 turn)
Wing: Black hackle (1-2 turns)

This is a good looking caddis pupa pattern. I will make a bunch of these for the next summer.

Grub. Tied by Levern Burm

From Fly-patterns

This Grub pattern, as tied by Levern Brum, is looking really tasty. Simple, fast to tie, what more can you ask?

UPDATE (Thanks Vern!):
Hook: Daiichi 1120 or TMC 2487/2457
Rib: Osterich herl
Abdomen: Virtual nymph skin (tan/cream). Can substitute with a latex
glove cut into strips.
Thorax: Buggy black dubbing