4 Hook Articulated Caterpillar!

not quite sure what gave me the idea for this but i think it was a combination of a brain fart and some sticky foam! a 4 hook articulated caterpillar!

Articulated Caterpillar

Hook: 4 #2 hooks

Thread: Green Danville 210 denier

Body: Green sticky side foam

Legs: Grizzly Hackle

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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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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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