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Pale Morning Dun Comparadun
The Pale Morning Dun mayfly, Ephemerella excrucians, generally a mid-western and western mayfly, is in the same family as our popular eastern Hendricksons (Ephemerella subvaria) and some of the...
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March Brown Comparadun – With Video
While the title of this blog would naturally tend to indicate “wet flies” I also enjoy tying and fishing dry flies as well. In fact, when I started tying commercially for Cathy and Barry Beck’s shop in...
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Bastian’s Floating Caddis Emerger – Again
This will be short and sweet. You remember my friend Dave Lomasney from York, Maine. I posted his striper photos here last week. Well, he wanted the tying instructions and recipes for my Floating...
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Sulphur MayflyDuns – Four-pack Selection
These four patterns were just added yesterday to MyFlies.com as part of my product page. Here is the link: http://www.myflies.com/Sulphur-Mayfly-Duns-Four-pack-Selection-P828.aspx I have made a few...
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Alexandra Wet Fly
The Alexandra Lake Fly – from the 1893 Orvis Display in the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. This fly is 120 years old. The hook size is approximately a 1/0. Note the whole light...
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Maine Brook Trout Pond Survey
I thought I would do my part to help the Maine Brook Trout Project by posting this monthly report. Brook Trout Pond Survey Enters 3rd Year – Written by Emily Bastian (Maine Audubon), Merry Gallagher...
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Fitz-Maurice Lake Fly
This pattern as represented in Trout by Ray Bergman is a little different than the old, original 19th century version I discovered on the 1893 Orvis Display Plates at the American Museum of Fly Fishing...
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Split Ibis Wet Fly
Here is another old wet fly pattern that historically was a part of our fly fishing heritage in the form of the traditional Lake Flies and smaller sizes of trout flies. I present the Split Ibis – both...
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Gone Fishin’
I couldn’t resist making this post. This title refers to a great classic song by two of America’s most iconic musicians, singers, performers, celebrities: Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. I never even...
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Pale Morning Dun Patterns
As a companion Four-pack Set to my Sulphur Dun Ephemerella invaria patterns on http://www.myflies.com/ I am also offering the same series of mayfly dun pattern styles for the Pale Morning Dun, which is...
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Big Montana Brown Trout
A friend of mine lives in Bozeman, Montana. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Doug Daufel and his twin brother, Dan, were tying flies commercially for Cathy and Barry Beck’s fly shop while they were still...
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Penn’s Creek Success
Through my friend and fellow fly tier, Eric Austin, of Delaware, Ohio, I was invited to join him and a group of other anglers for a few days of fishing Penn’s Creek at a private cabin near Weikert over...
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Boat Dog
One of my friends and a fly customer, Steve Sawczuk, from Plainville, Connecticut, invited me this past winter to join his group again at the Wantastiquet Trout Club near Weston, Vermont. We arrived on...
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Black Witch – Unknown Austin S. Hogan Original Pattern
Last winter, around February I suppose, a friend from Maine, Lance Allaire, sent me a photo of an unknown streamer fly tied by Austin Hogan. Lance asked me if I knew the pattern, but I did not. In fact...
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Didymo in Big Pine Creek, Pennsylvania
From an e-mail sent on July 10th by Dr. Mel Zimmerman at Lycoming College in my home town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Attached is a picture we took this morning from a sample above Waterville –...
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Parmacheene Belle
The Parmacheene Belle is arguably the most famous and most-well-known of all the married wing brook trout flies. It was created by Henry P. Wells in 1876. He named it after Parmacheene Lake in the...
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Fletcher – Classic Wet Fly
One of the little-known wet fly patterns from Trout, by Ray Bergman, is the Fletcher. It is not a particularly complicated pattern to tie, except for step two: the tail. It has a married tail...
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Golden Doctor – Classic Wet Fly
The first time I ever saw or heard of the Golden Doctor wet fly was in Trout, 1938, by Ray Bergman. Along with the Silver Doctor it was an attractor pattern, and like the recently posted Fletcher wet...
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Bergman Fontinalis – Classic Wet Fly
The Bergman Fontinalis and the Fontinalis Fin were the first two brook trout fin wet fly patterns that I ever saw. I’ve written about this before, but at age twelve, my brother, Larry, and I fished...
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Fanwing Coffin Fly
A while back I posted a Green Drake Coffin Fly pattern that I developed with the white foam extended body. It was patterned after the Dette Coffin Fly, which has a white body, short-clipped palmered...
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