Electric Chironomid Fly Pattern

Been Playin around with a couple new spin off's from the Yankee buzzer. Really like how these turned out, they show a lot of depth in the fly on the abdomen. The red one turned out super cool. Material lists and how to tie to come at a later date. These look super deadly, would like to come up with a better idea for the wing buds.

Trip report - 6/14/2011 South Platte River - Deckers

Had the the chance on my birthday to head out and fish. Joesph and I, a coworker took the day and head up to the South Platte at Deckers. Arrived at the Platte about 6:15am geared up and started fishing. Within the first hour we had landed fish. We started out at the fence right below Wigwam Club. The morning started of great and it continued Thur out the day. We end working our way down to the confluence of the north and south fork of the Platte. Stopping quite a few places to fish. What I noticed is how spunky the fish where. We started the day of with nymph rigs and then moved over to hopper, copper & dropper rigs. Could not get anything to take the hopper but the sub surface flies where on fire. What I did notice was that parts of the Platte are making a solid come back.

 First fish of the morning

 Joesph with a nice rainbow

 Joesph with the fish of the day. Around a 24" rainbow.

 "D" rib golden stone nymph, this fly was on fire for the day

 Juan's Royal Gorgeous caddis, this little fly was also a hot ticket.

 Juan's Hooper Juan, fish where not looking up.

Last fish of the day.

Product Review - Deercreek Flies Diamond Hard Low Tack resin and Torch

I received are care package a couple days ago from Nik Wright of Deercreek flies, he sent me some of his new UV low tack resin and a torch to cure it. The name of the resin is Diamond Hard Low Tack. Been playing around with for a couple of days now and I really like it. I have been using Loon's clear fly finish before. The Diamond Hard is a lot clear than the Loon, the Diamond hard is crystal clear. It does seem to be harder than the Loon Clear Fly Finish. The Diamond Hard is defiantly a low tack resin, once you hit it with a light no need for anything to cover it. The Diamond Hard Resin seems to be a little thinner than the Loon's Clear fly finish. As for the torch for Deercreeks resin it is a lot more powerful than Loon's new power lamp. The batteries for Deercreeks torch are a little hard to find at a fair price. I went to Walgreens to buy the batteries and they were $11 each, I then went to Batteries Plus and found them for $11 for two. Over all I would highly recommend this product to all.

http://www.deercreek.co.uk/default.html

 The resin and the torch

 Test fly

 Same fly different view

Another Fly

Sculpzilla - The ultimate streamer

In my opinion this is the ultimate streamer pattern. Sculpzilla can be changed to match almost any color scheme. I tie it in basically three sizes, small, medium & large. The darker the fly I use the black nickel cross eyed cones. The lighter ones I use the nickle cross eyed cones. I pretty much stick with the red eyes for the cone.

Hook: trailer hook Daiichi #1640 size 4, front hook Diarikki #930 size 2 salt water hook. Remember after you finish tying the fly cut of the front hook. Cut it as close to the body as you can

Thread: UTC GSP 50 color to match

Cone: Crossed Eye cone, Black nickle or Nickel

30lbs spider wire braid for connecting hooks

Wing: Rabbit strip, coordinate color of strip to finished pattern

Body: UV Ice Dubbing to match, Use dubbing loop to dub.

Gills: red soft hackle feather

Skirt: Marabou wrapped as a collar.

Collar: Grizzly Chickabou color to match

Nose: Hot orange 140D thread

This streamer in the water has a ton of movement. Also another plus for this fly is that when it is wet, it is easy to cast.

Here is some of the color variations that I like.

UV Chewee Scud Olive

Been playing around with some different scud patterns. Really likes Herm's scud, but I don't like coloring the scuds the way he does. I'm not a artist, then came UV Chewee skin. This is tied like Herm's scud but with a few different materials. The main material is UV Chewee skin, what neat stuff. The dubbing for the legs is a mixture of Natures Spirit emergence gray olive dubbing and light olive UV dubbing. Hopefully well give this a try next weekend. The fly is coated with Loons UV clear fly finish, not really happy with it.  Can't wait to try my new Diamond Clear UV from Deer Creek flies. I'm going to get more colors of the UV Chewee skin. I tied this on s size 14 MFC #7076 hook.

Playin around with Chironomids

Been playin around with Tak's Crystal Chironomid. Here are a couple, 1 red & 1 black. I not happy with breathers at the head. Can't wait to get my new Diamond clear UV resin from Deer Creek to test on these patterns. My Loon clear fly finish is way to thick to level properly. I think we will be on the still water for a little while. Run off is going to get crazy around here very shortly.

Trip Report - Antero Res. - 5/5/11

Had the opportunity to call in fishing today, convinced two of my co-workers also to call in fishing. Left bright and early for Antero Res, weather forecast was in our favor today. We arrived at Antero around 8:30 am to very light winds and some what light crowd. Headed for the south shore boat ramp circus, pretty mild today. If you have been there you know what I mean. The day started of well, right out of the chute I hooked up with a real nice rainbow. Kelly started off a little slow but end up with a fury. Dale is fairly new to the lake fly fishing and had a good day.

Second fish of the day, nice cutty.



Kelly's fish of the day. Fat Rainbow



Dale's fish of the day



Fish of the day for me, male rainbow



This was the fly of the day, black chironomid (Buzzer). Olive scuds also worked well.

Sunday morning boredum set in. Organizing Tools

I was setting at my tying bench bored and wishing I was was on a river with a rod in my hand . So i decided to organize my fly tying tools. Started cleaning and organizing my tools that is when I realized I might have a problem. I'm a fly tying tool junkie, how many tools does one person need.

 Scissors- how many pairs dose one person need. I still have my original DH Thompson Ice scissors, midge and hair. This pile would be a lot bigger if I hadn't just threw a few pairs out.

 Whip finishers, just a few.

 Hackle Pliers

 This is the scary pile. Bobbins

 Dubbing brushes, a little small compared to the rest

 Dubbing twisters

 Bodkins, fancy word for dowel with needle.

Hair stacker's

This is what accumulates after 25 years of fly tying. Some of these tools are my original tools when I started tying.