This made my day - Fly Tyer Magazine Summer 2010

Finally got my hands a the newest Fly Tyer Magazine, and inside I found something pretty cool. It's not to big    of a deal, but I think it's pretty cool.

Inside the magazine was a article for the newest patterns for Montana Fly Company. Started scrolling threw the patterns and I find a cool surprise.

And there it is, Pennington's D-Rib Golden. I was pleasantly surprised, I had heard from MFC that this might happen. You never know until you see it for your own eyes. The only thing that is a little dis hearting is that they have the material list incorrect. At least I know the fly is correct, that is one I actually tied. 

Trip Report - Antero Res. 5/15/10

Took off early Saturday morning for Antero Res. with great anticipation for a fun filled day of fishing. Kelly one of my co-workers came a long for the ride. We head over for the north shore to set up for the day. We where greeted with this view. Shortly after arriving at the north shore we where greeted by a short lived snow squall. We had a couple of fisherman to the north of us, otherwise we had that area of the lake to ourselves. 

First fish of the day, nice fat rainbow.

Close up of the first fish of the day

Red chirnomids and olive scuds seem to work the best. Did catch the last 2 fish of the day on a black UV wooly bugger.

This little gem worked well

Kelly with his first fish, nice little cutty.

Cool Picture

Gotta love Colorado

At the end of the day took a trip over to the south shore, heard some stories that the south shore boat dock was on fire. First thing I thought to myself was this is a three ring circus. The concrete boat dock to left of the ramp was being fished by 6 fisherman. The 10 to 15 minutes we watched this circus I saw 12 fish caught and only two were released. The DOW need to put a full time officer at this lake on weekends. I will get off my soap box now.

Yankee Buzzer - New Chironomid paterrn

I have heard a lot about the new lake pattern from the bench of Rob Kolanda, he was working for Front Range Anglers. The pattern is named the Yankee Buzzer, not a lot of info on the pattern yet. Was able to find  the pattern for sale at Front Range Anglers. The Pattern is being produced by Solitude Flies. The fly is tied in 4 color combinations, black, red, olive and brown. I have tied 3 out of the 4 color combos. I have made some minor changes to the pattern. 1st change is the hook, I'm tying it on a MFC #7231 2XL curved shank hook. Second change is the wing buds I'm using amber biots, they used a amber flex floss. 

The picture above is the Solitude pattern that I purchased from Front Range Anglers.  Not the best looking fly. 

All the flies below are ones that I tied 

Olive Yankee Buzzer

Black Yankee Buzzer

Red Yankee Buzzer

Loon UV Clear Fly Finish and Power light

I have been playing around with two new products from Loon Outdoors. First is there UV Clear Fly finish, I have been using it on some buzzer patterns. First thing that I noticed was the clarity of the product. It seems to be very clear, no tinge of yellow. Started tying with it about a week ago, the flies tied a week ago look like the ones tied yesterday. They have a great gloss finish and still very clear. I had tied some other patterns with UV knot sense and they lost there sheen and clarity after a period of time. Have fished the patterns yet, field testing will be coming.

In conjunction with the UV clear fly finish I was using there new UV power light. The light is very strong, it dose not take long to harden the coating. I have there old 3 bulb light the new light is much stronger. The other thing I like about the new light is that is uses AA batteries and has a on/off switch.

As far as the price on both new products, that is the one draw back to the the products. The UV clear fly finish runs $25.00, the tube is about 3 times the size of the UV knot sense. The new power Light runs about $35.00. In my opinion the products are worth every penny.

Here is a sample fly below, Yankee Buzzer

Working on my fly boxes

Took advantage of a pretty quite day at the home front and got the opportunity to work of my fly boxes. Did get to serious, just attacked some random holes. Also decided to come up with a new pattern for the lake box. Here are some pictures of what was put into the boxes today.

Sparkle wing RS-2

Youngs Flasher

Another view of Youngs flasher

My version of Barr's Bouface. Many difference is that I'm using a pine squirrel collar instead of the marabou collar. Also some new olive tungsten beads on this fly

Group photo of Bouface's

New olive chironomid pattern. This looks to be a killer, can't wait to give it a try

New red chironomid pattern

Apologize for lack of activity

I would like to apologize for the lack of activity the last couple of weeks. I had a death in the family, hope to getting back to some posts real soon

Carl

Easter Sunday Cheesman Canyon - 4/4/10

I had the fortune to get a kitchen pass to go fishing, decided on Cheesman Canyon. The flows where just raised to 185CFS. I thought with it being Easter Sunday that it might be a little quite in the canyon, somewhat wrong. I arrived a the trail head about 6:15am, I was the first in the lot. Geared up and hiked in. With it being Easter Sunday decided to stay in the lower part of the river. Started off at the picnic table hole, this is one of my favorite spots on the river if I'm first to the river. Picnic table hole did not disappoint. The weather was great, a little breezy at times but fairly warm.

1st fish of the day, nice rainbow. This fish was taken on a Youngs special

Up part of the riffle right above picnic table hole produced this pig of a fish. She took me on two screaming runs down river. She was taken on a mercury black beauty size 22

Same fish, 22"plus weighed 5plus pounds. I need to work on picture taking skills. When you are by yourself taking pictures can be tricky

The pig again.

This little male was taken at the meat hole

Same little male

Sitting on the bank of the river enjoying the day. Decided to head back a little early to enjoy a great Easter dinner with the family.

Shrimp foil Scud

Been playing around with a couple new materials to me. I was given a few pieces of light olive pearl shrimp foil. Then I bought some Natures Spirit emergence dubbing in a gray olive color. Both products are very cool. I really like the texture and the sheen of the Natures Spirit emergence dubbing. Can't wait to give this scud a try on one of my favorite still waters.

Hook: MFC 7076 1XL nymph hook Size 16

Thread: 8/0 Olive dun

Weight: .015 lead wire

Tail: Coq De lon Fibers

Rib: 2lbs mono

Scud back: Light olive pearl Shrimp Foil