A Rant about Coloradofisherman.com Forums

This rant is pointed to the fly fishing and fly tying section of the forum. One day this weekend got up an got on my computer and was checking out a couple of the forums. I started reading this post on the Coloradofisherman.com fly fishing forum about a poor customer service from a popular Denver Metro fly shop. The member that posted this topic was very unhappy with the customer service he had been receiving and he was done giving this shop his money. The posted was done very tasteful, no foul language. I marked this post for follow up, came back later in the day and could not find the post. Personally I think some of the moderators on the fly fishing and the fly tying portion of this site delete post way to freely. I understand the need for moderators for these types of site, what they did feels more like censorship. Also I feel if the post was about any other shop than it was it would have been left. I'm really thinking about contacting the site and voicing my displeasure of this practice, moderators need to be kept in check.

Done with my rant. What do you think?

CP's RAzor Foam Caddis Dry Fly

Thought I would do a new video this morning. Tied my Razor Foam Caddis Dry Fly. You can use this Razor Foam on a lot of dry flies. Give it try.


Hook: MFC #7000KBL, Black barbless hook - Size 18 thru size 14
Thread: MFC 8/0 olive
Body: Olive Razor foam .5mm
Wing: Elk hair
Thorax: MFC UV Frog's Hair Dubbing Olive
Hackle: Standard Dy Fly in Brown

Test Kick Outcast Fat Cat LCS

Had the opportunity to take out my birthday and fathers day gift for a test float. I received as Fat Cat LCS for a gift from my wife. Headed out for Spinney mountain res on July 3rd. We arrived at no name bay around 6:00am, fished from shore for a while. Then it was time to get the tubes out. Got all set up and headed out, minor to the seat on the way out. The first thing I noticed with this tube was how high you sit in the water. After a while in the tube I thought i was sitting in my recliner at home. The Fat Cat maneuvers fairly easy. The other thing I figured out is need a different net, I don't like my wooden net sitting in the water all day. After about 6 hours on the water I realized my legs are out of shape. Overall had a blast. Oh by the way fishing was ok, the cali hatch on no name bay was epic. Hard to catch fish with that many naturals on the water.

 This was the fish of the day, went about 20 inches. This fish put up a fight like no other, just about put me into backing. It was like I hooked into a torpedo.

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.