Driftless Photo Essay #2

 

For the past four days I had a great time visiting my old haunts in the Driftless area. The creeks were in a great shape and I was enjoying fishing dry flies over spooky wild browns during the hottest time of the day, by stalking individual risers. Most surface feeders would happily take a cricket or ant during any time of the day, or a BWO imitation during sporadic BWO hatches.

Driftless Photo Essay: Trout Stalker & Cricket Eaters

Reel Seats and Striped Bass

Today's effort...

Tales from the Secret Bog

 

Sight vs Blind Cast

From the last couple of days...

Swan & Snipe

 

Dark (L) and light (R) versions...

More Oliver Kite

2H Swing

Swinging for schoolies with my new 2H rod.

Variety

Dormouse & Partridge and Trout Fly Tying

I miss tying trout patterns! Living on the ocean coast and fishing mostly for striped bass, my trout fishing trips are not so common today as they used to be in the past. I brought some dormouse (Glis glis) fur back from my trip. It is a great traditional material used by many Balkan fly tyers and perfect for soft hackle bodies, shaggy nymphs and spiky fly thoraxes. I just finished a batch of flies for a friend and have been enjoying the trout fly tying groove. I have to catch up with some rod orders this week, but will be tying and posting trout patterns on a more regular basis.

Premeditated Murder

We found several carcasses of small stripers killed by local poachers last evening in the neighborhood :-(. On the positive note, sight casting was productive this morning.