Good Times

Spent last two days chasing spring stripers in CT and MA with my old friend Eric...good times!

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A Quick Outing

A few bumps, a few splashes, no hook ups... Well, they are here and cheers to the new season!

Stacked Marabou Wing

Marabou hackle stacked and pulled over for fly's back...

Changes of Spring

Soon...

Spring Fling

The Ghost of Spring

Chiaroscuro

The Night Watch and La Paloma Soft Hackle Flawings

Belonging

Firetiger and Blue Angel Soft Hackle Flatwings

Wild Melty Minnow from Japan

My first attempt at tying this cool floating minnow imitation from Japan... I suggest printing baitfish drawings and using them as a template for cutting various foam shapes.

Pink Variations

Soft Hackle Flatwings (top/bottom): Summer Dawn, Summer AM, Summer PM, Darkness Falls

Winthrop Shore Walk

Fly & Rod Room

You never know...

You never now where one of the rods you built in the past can end up. I was delighted to see Randy's post (aka clarkman23 on Fiberglass Flyrodders board) featuring this Lamiglas rod in action on the coast of Oregon.

Single Foot Guide Height Comparison

Left to right: AmTack size 5, Pac Bay Minima size 8, H&H Seymo size 5

Thank You, Bernard

"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea." Bernard Moitessier

Spawning Nereis

Spawning sandworm imitation with emu feather tied flatwing style and foam slider head. Palmered emu hackle is clipped under the hook shank to create flattened appearance. Nereis virens photo (bottom) courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

Sisevac Caddis (Clipped Emu Para-Caddis)

Happy New Year!

A few ties for the Happy New Year: Seafoam Softhackle Flatwing and a selection of Mochi Baitfish... Wishing you all the best!

Completed Handles

Fusion

Two types of "Fusion" in the works... Two baitfish imitations brush-sculpted with Liquid Fusion, and two reel seats spray-painted with Krylon Fusion. The seats will get a clear coat next week.

"Make it a Game Fish!"

Striped Bass Gamefish from Taylor Vavra on Vimeo.

Stick Bait Fly

Floating minnow imitation.

Late Season Wanderings

The season is over... It is hard to give up, since it's been less than two months since I moved back here.

With unseasonably warm weather, I've been exploring docks and jetties, sometimes with light rods, searching for the late migrants-usually small fish. There is still plenty of bait around, so small, laterally compressed imitations were a good match for juvenile bunker. Here is a picture of B&B (Bunker and Butterfish) Clouser-a simple fly I've been using with light rods.