Time to Ski

 I installed new Rottefella bindings today...ready for the weekend in the woods.

Au Naturel Zonker

Classic Olive Zonker

Silver Blue Zonker

White Mottled Zonker

Golden Olive Zonker

Rusty Zonker

Red and Purple Zonker

Winter Sea

Buggers

Fishing on New Year's Day

Looking for trout on the first day of 2021!

Lockdown Solo and Happy New Year

Here's to the future...Happy New Year! Solo performance recorded in November 2020.

Sardinella Deceiver

Sardinella aurita...Deceiver style imitation for Mediterranean bonito. This would also be a nice fly for saltwater species in New England. Varivas stainless hook, size 2/0.

Blue Dawn Deceiver

The Sundowner Deceiver

End of the Season

This 2020 season was a strange one, just like this year. No bonito in sight yesterday, but the weather was summer-like. Keeping fingers crossed for the 2021!

Soft Tubing Squid

Magnum Silversides Variant

Crease Slider 2

Albacore (COVID Edition 2)

This year is not even close to 2017 albie season, but we are getting some.

Home Fishing

Schoolies on the SW blow!

Crease Slider

Silversides Crease Slider

Albacore (COVID Edition)

Images courtesy of Jason Zimmer.

Bait Balls and Baitfish Flies

Bait balls by the jetty... Getting ready with Crease Flies and EZ Candy baitfish imitations.

Peanut Bunker and Silversides Crease Fly

Peanut

Silversides 

Flies for Tunoids

New Saltwater Fly Rod Builds

Latest salty fly rod builds, just completed. More pics here. #vladanmilenkovicflyrods

Gurgler & Floating Line

Tons of small bait around the house, with schoolie stripers going wild.

Beastmaster

Flashback

Sunrise in Winthrop, time to fish... Photographed on this very day, in 2012.

Jiggy Flies

A double purpose fly...nice baitfish pattern for flats fishing, but also a good small tunoid fly. Tied with tungsten beads, size 4 hooks.

Red Tide Sucks (part 2)

The water had slightly better clarity today, but you had to find a certain depth which held fish, to be able to sight-cast. Good amounts of striped bass in a small area, close to deeper water. They refused standard green crab and shrimp flies, but took a small white Shminnow.

Hard to beat a Roku gin martini after a long sight-casting session!

Red Tide Sucks

Flats fishing and coping with the red tide murk and diminished visibility (lots of clouds, very hot and humid weather.) I had to move a lot today to find the cleanest water, trying to change location each time the clouds would pass. Fish are not keying on one single prey, so you need to change flies frequently. Some fish liked crab, and some dab imitation today. No takers on shrimp!