Sight Casting Season is On!

Few fish on the nearby flat this afternoon, all good size, spooky, but hard fighting. All singles and full of lice. Light Daiichi hook has slightly opened on this one... The most exciting moment was watching a large fish slurp a shrimp at the surface, like a large brown would suck in a PMD. I switched to a Shrimp Gurgler, but no cigar. 😎

Cased Caddis Larva

Excellent mid-day fly for nymph fishing karst streams...

Deer Hair Ants

Hendrickson Emerger/Cripple

Woodcock and Doormouse Wet

Inspired by classic Invicta... European doormouse fur for the body, woodcock wings and hackle.

Blue Charm

Variant with added long black spey hackle.

Heggeli Hairwing Spey Variant

Green hook version, grey fox wing.

Green Willie Gunn Hairwing

South Platte Spider

Beauly Snow Fly

Lavender Spey

Crimson Black Spey

Freestyle, on Gamakatsu 1/0.

Black Bear Green Butt Spey

Silver Blue March Brown Spey

Dusty Rose Hairwing Spey

 Modern twist on a spey fly...I call this one a Dusty Rose, tied on blue Gamakatsu T10-6H, size 1.

Yellow/Blue/Orange Flatwing

Soldier Palmer Wet Swing Fly

Blue Zulu Spey Wet

Red Bare Hook Soft Hackles

Trout Purple Spey