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Craft Store Recon
Places where I don't belong...The nice oldish lady in the bead aisle at the craft store gave me a sideways glance and a funny look as if to say I was obviously lost and probably needed help finding the...
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A Great Pre-Hatch Baetis Nymph
Aero-Baetis FTW!Aero-Baetis NymphI'm often reminded of a time I hit the river for some spring Baetis or Blue Winged Olive action a number of years ago. It was mid-morning and as I walked by one of my...
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Fripple 2.0
A Mayfly imitation worth a lookThe story of the Fripple goes back a number of years to a lazy day on the bank of the river watching the blue winged olives hatch. I noticed that the fish were not keying...
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Bling out your Chernobyl Ant
A glitzy variation on a great patternA few weeks ago, we participated in a great cause tying flies for "Reel Recovery" for some of their events locally here in Utah. I wanted to tie up some good...
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Masked Marauder
two tone stoneMasked Marauder variationI have been intrigued by stoneflies for the last few years, and I take great joy in fishing them in fast water that is often passed up by anglers searching for...
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Foam Dragon - Bluegill Edition
Mixing a bugger with a chernobyl antBrown and TanI was in a bluegill-ish mood the other day at the vise, and like I often do, I just started throwing some materials onto hooks. I had some marabou from...
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The ChupaCamarón Shrimp
The "Shrimp Sucker"I live about 30 miles from some very high concentrations of saltwater shrimp. Unfortunately the shrimp are the miniscule brine shrimp and the Great Salt Lake doesn't hold any fish to...
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Pike's Puke
A toothy predator flyA few years ago, I was working on a fly for meatier fish that would both push a lot of water as well as offer good movement in the water. Articulation is a no-brainer, but I wanted...
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La Bomba Bluegill Snack
simple fly for stubborn gillsNot to be confused with the EXCELLENT movie La Bamba.Stubborn gills? Really? It was prime spawning season, and day 2 of a 3 day bass/bluegill trip was proving to be much...
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Peak Vise Review
Durability is its middle nameI have tied on many different vises through the years - some for the long term, and others just long enough to get a whip finish on my first fly. I started tying on a...
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The Gut-Bomb Revisited
This blood worm gets tractionBack in January, we posted about a new pattern that we'd been messing with. Between that post and the video we did for the pattern, the response from our readers has been...
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Hopper Project 2013
Slopper Hopper 2.0Green and black barred legs.As you have seen with patterns like the Rainy's Grand Hopper, Crosslink foam is a great material that can be used to sculpt a great hopper body. It's a...
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The NEWB Corner: Getting Outfitted to Tie Flies
10 tools to get startedFirst off, if you're confused as to whether or not to buy a kit or build up your own, see this. So assuming you don't buy a kit, let this be a primer on what you'll need to get...
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The Fly Airbrushing Revolution
The Copic Airbrush systemFirst off, this is literally one of the more fun tools and techniques I've played with in a long time. Not only can you have a blast painting poppers, but the Copic Airbrush...
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AZ Frenchie
Effective and simpleThis pattern was developed with simplicity and max effectiveness in mind for tournament fishing. The idea is that it needs to catch fish, but if you break it off, it's not a huge...
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The Holo-Buzzer: Chironomid fishing at its best
A great fly with a great techniqueI wrote a few months back about a style of chironomid pattern that I've been grooving on a LOT lately. I'm back to report that the "Holo-Buzzer" style of fly has been...
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Simplicity for Toothy Critters
quick tie for a quick bite.Several years back, good friend Brent Stout decided to take the "all species on the fly" challenge in Utah and became fairly obsessed with chasing Tiger Musky (who wouldn't)....
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Rock worms that rock.
simple or complex, you decideIt was COLD that morning. This is the type of cold that makes even the most hard core of fishers reconsider how tough they are. I dragged myself out of bed and started my...
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Rainy's Foam Popper Bodies
Fast and Furious TopwaterThe first poppers I tried were small fragile cork plugs from the craft store. They had to be shaped, sanded, filled, painted and coated -- only to fall apart after a few casts...
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Arizona Prince
Another change to the royal familyThe Royal FamilyLike most experimental flies that I tie, I'll whip up one or two and have them sit on the bench until either I remember where I put them in my box, or...
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