Clouser Minnow

Materials

-#1 Mustad Saltwater Hook

-Medium Dumbell Eyes

-210 denier flat- lay danville thread

-Chartreuse Bucktail

-White Bucktail

-Pearl Flash

Secure Thread

Secure eyes in. Be sure eyes cant wiggle around

Tie in white bucktail angled up.

Fold bucktail over eyes and secure with 2 thread wraps.

Wrap thread over bucktail to the bend of the hook. Wrap back foward. (leave space in between each wrap)

take 1 strand of pearl flash and double it over. tie in the flash and fold over to other side and tie in.

Rotate vise. Tie bucktail in lightly. use you fingers to move bucktail around to all sides to cover the bottom half of the hook pull thread wraps tight.

Make nice and even head. Whip finish. Cement Head.

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Flies for a swap

Just like i promised! just a few days late!(not the flies the pics!) These are bluegill flies tied for a bluegill fly swap! (in hopes of warmer weather!) Some of my best bluegill fishing has been done with nymphs (thats why i choose to do a nymph) and i have found that they prefer a fly with flash! and the also like legs! so i concocted this wild thing up at the vise last night!

the host of the swap has a blog: http://chuckingfluff.blogspot.com/

A Crazy Bluegill Fly

Hook: #16

Bead: 3/32 Copper

Tail: Brown Biots

Body: Pearl Flash

Thorax: Peacock Herl

Back: Flashback

Legs: Green Silli Legs

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Friday Thoughts…….its friday!

I had it all thought out what i was going to say today for the Friday thoughts while i was thinking in school during some class i should have been paying attention in!

TieFest is this weekend! Go eat your hearts out!

Wish for more warm weather coming!

So I guess i don’t have much to say today except it is the weekend. Go to tiefest. and Go Fishing.

I will put up some fly pics momentarily! (i hope.)

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Fly Shops

Please excuse my absence from writing yesterday…. i have been trying really hard to get this blog more active especially since no-one has anything better to do in the winter than tie flies, read fishing books and read stupid blogs like this one. i do highly recomend bwtf or moldy chum for your blogosphere entertainment.

Anyways i thought i would talk about a subject that not everyone understands. Fly shops….. Everyone in this economy has a hard time…. Fly shops also have a hard time and they are always in constant competition with places like retail stores (bps, cabelas) So i would like to remind everyone to support your fly shop in this economy and remember that they are having a tough time also…..plus they can give you some of the best fishing reports!

Hopefully i will be able to post some fly pics of some bluegill flies i tied for a swap… and tomorrow is Friday! which means time for my stupid Friday thoughts random tidbits from my brain!

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Tuesday Doldrums and a minor case of writers block

So it has been a dull Tuesday. Puddles everywhere walking home from school. Getting my socks wet really sucks….. one thing i hate so much in life is getting your socks wet…… such a wet soggy feeling eeuugh!

Anyways back to what i am suppose to write about that fly fishing this we all follow like it is some religion! So i was tying my flies like i normally do when i get home from school and i started thinking…….I was thinking……. **i feel you should know at this point in my writing i am experiencing writers block!** I am not even sure what i was thinking as i was filling up the nymph fly box! Ohh yeah i guess i could talk about some nymphs in my fly box! First off i belive every fly box is like someones house…. it is customized how you want it. With what you want in it. With what you like in it. and what makes you look cool when you show it too your friends! So my fly box has some tried in true patterns that i love (prince, pheasant tail, hares ear) because almost every fisherman has those 4 fly patterns in his vest or pack somewhere! I have some patterns that i have found over the years that look flashy and would kill on stocked trout! I have some attractor nymphs, General mayflies, caddisflies, and stoneflies-all nymphs and my favorite selection would by my 4 rows of Czech nymphs! if you don’t know what Czech nymphing is well then….. i guess you don’t know what it is and need to do a little research. and of course everyone has flies they don’t admit to having so to be *official* i don’t have any eggs or san juan worms, green weenies, suckerspawn, or any other of that stuff! but unofficially i have some of it when the stocked trout dot feel like playing with anything else! I am working on doing photos of some of these flies to post up here for your fly tying pleasure! bear with me school work sucks and i never feel like doing it when fly boxes are not full!

feel free to comment and talk about your candy box!

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In the bleak midwinter.

I Was Pondering in my mind about what to write about today in this very blank, colorless passionless day…… So i resorted to tying flies and well doing what i do about every day in the winter….. watch short films of fly fishing to warm the fly fisherman’s soul! Here are a few links of my favorites!

http://beattieoutdoorproductions.com

New Home Page

http://tv.flyfishingfilmtour.com/

http://www.basecamp.bentrodmedia.com/

The cure for winter doldrums in us all!

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Working With Silli Skin!

Gummi Bugger- Just like a woolly bugger but with silli skin instead of chenille

Hook: #10-2

Thread: 6/0

Tail: Marabou w/ flash

Body: Silli Skin

Hackle: Saddle

Not the best Gummi Minnow. Shape is not the best but it was my first time with it. Also it has no eyes……. need to figure out what to do!

Hook: #8-1/0

Thread: 6/0

Body: Silli Skin

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A Pic From the RRF last weekend

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UV Chenille- The Best Thing Since Rotating Vises

Wow…..my first impression with this stuff….. Amazing stuff! I love to tie streamers with this stuff! It is incredibly easy to tie with! makes great streamers. To tie a streamer pattern with this all you need is the UV Chenille!!!! A One Pattern Fly that looks great and acts great in the water! Comes in various colors for your streamer tying pleasure. Looks different in the picture but once this stuff gets wet it has amazing action and look!

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Friday Thoughts……..a random bit of fly fishing from my head.

Snow/Rain/Crap

So i am getting fed up with all this extra snow…….. lots of crap on the side of the road that looks like crap all brown and such from cars….and rain predicted for monday will melt all this snow away into our rivers and lakes….. so it looks like the rain in the forecast will wash away all this snow into our rivers and make them high again for like the 3rd fricking time this year….. but dont worry every story has a silver lining……. I have heard from a few sources including a few guides that the spring fishing will be on FIRE!!! good water levels all though the year and good fishing later in the season! The SNP will probably be fishing well later this year the normal… Good flows all year for floating rivers

Fly Tying…..

School Days get really long and i often find myself daydreaming about fly fishing and fly tying…. often times a new fly pattern gets written on the back of classwork or such…. I have been in the works of a new nymph pattern that originated on the back of some classwork in school. I have been experimenting with doing a dubbing loop which is a really cool technique if you have never tried it. I am a huge fan of woolly buggers with dubbing on them and now my go-to bugger is a dub-bug (my own version of a woolly bugger). If you there is still any doubt in your mind about attending the fly tying marathon it will be incredibly awesome! lunch will be provided and deserts!

Kayak Stuff

Have some fly rod holders coming in soon to put on the kayak for some summer smallmouth action on the fly from the yak! Been hard at work filling my new smallmouth fly box for the coming season……however i must say i am more stoked for the trout season!

Fly Fishing

Might go fly fishing on Sunday after the marathon but that is still in the works!

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