LESS CATCHING
More Fly Tying
how many gross ?
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.. There comes a time in the historic saga of each fly fisher when sensibility departs and capricious whimsy invades the neurons between the ears.
.. The thought arises: "Why not a specific fly for every specific fishing situation?" What an amazing thought this is. It falls in line with other personality traits of the dedicated fisher: creative stories, denial of skill, elevation of luck, acceptance of expert advice, denial of personal experience, embrace of merchandising hype, etc.
.. This leads to a few interesting results: more fly boxes, more books, more lessons, more patterns, more supplies, etc.
.. Happily, this leads to more sales in the dusty aisles of feather merchants and, expanded creativity of both amateur and professional fly tiers. This engenders foraging trips to hobby stores for new and unique materials and the expanded array of 'must have' materials and techniques.
.. It's a small wonder that folks a century ago even caught any fish. Poor sods they; without the advantages of plastic, super glue, and U.V. techniques. We weep for them!
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| DOWN WING FEATHER CADDIS |
.. We keep our self busy helping this affliction and spin up a few gross of the flies during the cool weather season up here.
.. Right now there are some "new," "exciting," "innovative," "hot," "awesome," "really sick," patterns that need to be cranked out.
.. We're hard at it. Of course our enthusiasm will dwindle shortly but, for now it's gung-ho forward into the depths of the new wave of obsession from our neighbors and affluent visitors.
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| ORANGE HACKLE FUZZY ADAMS |
.. The requests call for a half dozen gross of the little bits of fluff. Far less than a 'real' fly tier will accomplish in five or so months.
.. We will slog along, (on and off,) as the inclination strikes. It's a simple way to pass the time and ignore chores that need to be done.
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| FUZZY WORM |
.. We praise the creativity of commercial merchandisers in the fly fishing business.
.. For the last two centuries they have been rebranding old stuff and selling it as new stuff.
.. "All that is old is new again:" to coin a phrase. Techniques, materials, equipment, language, phraseology, clothing, etc.; are all recycled in glossy catalogs, commercial blogs, and sycophants of the printed page.
.. Bless them all. It provides a bit of harmless diversion for most of us. Certainly for those with no historic perspective it provides great ego satisfaction.
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.. Well, the estuaries are beginning to slow down. Snow melt is rapidly dwindling and ice is to be spotted here and there.
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| THEY EVEN CAME SNELLED !! |
.. This is the season of "THE NEIGHBORHOOD."
.. Hebgen Reservoir is open year 'round for catching. Most of the contributory streams are closed to fishing.
.. Interestingly, stream flow continues well into the lake water.
.. There are large fish of the tout persuasion in the lake, (and from the streams,) that enjoy the edge of the flowing water as it enters the reservoir. A snowmobile is required in some locations.
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| MIDNIGHT SOFTY |
.. 'Jeep Trails' have not yet been closed. You won't hear about it -
BUT - spectacular catching is currently underway in the reservoir. Just be sure not to wet your line in the rivers and streams!
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| WALLPAPER: COFFEE AND DANISH |
