Lately it doesn't seem like the weather can decide-- this morning there were dozen's of car accidents because of some very slick snow-- by afternoon I was contemplating working on my tan. As much as I wish I was fishing at this very moment with the sun shining, it will have to suffice to blog about it and watch fly tying & fishing videos like rick takahashi tying the Go2 prince (thank you Juan!) or an awesome video about some trout hunters putting the hurt on the fish in New Zealand -- put to some pretty sweet tunes I might add (thank you moldy!).
As for a fishing update I had an epic time on the east walker this last weekend (post to come soon) and made it out for an afternoon on the truckee last week. It turned out to be a great time with fish still holding in some big slow water but they are definitely starting to wake up. Most of the fish took a #14 hotwire prince nymph with some very spunky but small fish taking it on the swing or right before the swing. A couple of small fish also took my BWO nymph in olive -- that's about all that was really hatching in any great quantity. That was until I decided to tie on a small tung teaser dropper. With this fly on I spent the rest of the evening catching nice fat rainbows that would hit the tung teaser right in the transition zone between mid paced water and the flat stuff:
Late winter/Early Spring BWO nymph:
After flipping through the book John Barr's "Barr flies" (a great book by the way), the tung teaser really has stuck in my mind as a possibly great generic fly that fish would take for multiple bug species. So I recently sat down and tied up modified version (a bit darker than the original on a #10 tmc 3769 hook) in anticipation of the green drake hatch on the truckee as well as some of the originals for attractors. I also tied up a couple of size #16's just to have and it was really on a whim that I added this dropper to my hotwire prince that day. Ok it probably wasn't even a whim as much as it was I was excited by how these had turned out-- I'm officially a huge fan of Arizona synthetic. It's not my favorite stuff to get started on the thread, but dang it looks good on the hook:
I'm hoping these will be killer green
drake lead flies (they have tungsten beads)
Brian,
ReplyDeleteJust started following your blog. Awesome info, patterns and shared experiences. I think it is agreat blog you created for the Reno fly shop as well. Any tying instruction for these nymphs? Thanks again!
Brian,
ReplyDeleteI dig the blog. The photos and stories get me thinking I should swing a visit to Nevada...
Ben
Brian,
ReplyDeletenice looking flies. Something about those poxy backs
look slick. Juan
Hey Mickey-- thanks for checking out the blog-- I posted the recipe for these nymphs over at the reno fly shop blog here:
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Ben: thanks for checking out the blog, you should definitely swing by nevada, there's actually some very cool stuff to fish here (and in Northern CA). btw-- your tying looks great
Juan: Thanks man-- your vimeo vids have been kicking ass.
Brain,
ReplyDeleteGreat day today. 3 1/2 hrs fished, five fish from 19-21" and 1 monster that I got to my feet that was a solid 23-24 and straightened out my size 18 hook. I had another big go on a screaming run across the river like a summer fish.
I almost forgot. #18 midge , flat thin rubber body with reversed qrapped ultra fine siver wire, dubbed thorax and copper bead. I had a skwalla stone on the dropper with a couple of split shot 10" above the dropper. Got to find a way to take pics with my cannon camera. It's not a water proof camera and I don't want to damage it. By the time I got it out I just wanted to get the fish back in the water and the others I was mid-stream. How do you guys pull off the photography?
ReplyDeleteAwesome man-- the conditions look great and I've been dying to get out-- so thanks for the update and the down low on the fly, that's some great info! Right now I have a waterproof cannon so I can keep my camera right in the pocket of my waders or vest. But I used to just leave a camera on the shore downstream of where I was fishing and when I'd fight a fish I'd walk it down to the camera-- or I'd net it and walk to the camera keeping the net in the water... that said I release a lot of fish without pictures and have had many fish flop out of the net before I could take their picture :-)
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