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Midge Madness or the Tiny Terror

Anthony Naples — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:42:37 +0000

Midge#1 by Anthony Naples: done on iPod Touch with SketchBook Mobile

Midge #1 Sketch is based on a photo from the Winona Fly Factory Blog.

Well, I had been snowbound for almost a week. The children didn’t have school all week – and they were getting a little stir-crazy (me too). Normally with snow [...]

Dino Flies?

Anthony Naples — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:35:43 +0000

In the past I’ve tried to stick closely to fly fishing and related topics. This post is a little bit of a stretch. As a father of two young children I still get to think about dinosaurs , and share the enthusiasm that my kids have for them.

So my interest was peaked when I saw [...]

Casual Dress: Some Variations on a Theme

Anthony Naples — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:13 +0000

Variations on the Casual Dress

The Casual Dress may not be a pretty fly, but its creator Polly Rosborough knew what he was up to when he first tied up this ugly beauty. When I first started to tie flies, about 15 years ago, I was given Randall Kaufmann’s book The Fly Tyers Nymph Manual. [...]

Inspired by Others #1: Winona Fly Factory

Anthony Naples — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:05 +0000

There are numerous Fly Fishing related blogs that I enjoy visiting. Many of them have inspiring photos of trout and flies, and fishing destinations. These images can be a nice escape from the suburbs, a brief journey to another locale, a small trip to Montana, Utah, Wales, Wisconsin or elsewhere. So I thought it would [...]

Blog Spotlight: Fly Fishing in South Wales

Anthony Naples — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:32:54 +0000

From: www.flyfishinginsouthwales.co.uk

I just came upon this blog called Fly Fishing in South Wales. I haven’t been following it very long but I really like what I’ve seen so far. The title of the post that the above pic comes from really caught my eye: “Sacrificials”. It’s funny that as soon as [...]

Book Review: Good Flies by John Gierach

Anthony Naples — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:29:12 +0000

Good Flies: Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got that Way by John Gierach

Winter is upon us, so it is the time for reading and fly tying. With that in mind, I’ve been meaning to post a quick review of this book for a while, so here it goes. I read this [...]

Elegant Flies by Jean paul Dessaigne

Anthony Naples — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:19:54 +0000

I enjoy fly tying as an end unto itself. So, lately I have had the desire to concentrate on tying flies that I like to tie and that I like to look at. I think that the desire to catch fish and to tie elegant flies do not have to be mutually exclusive.

I haven’t talked [...]

Shark’s Caddis Larva

Anthony Naples — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:04 +0000

While crawling around the internet one occasionally comes across something interesting and even novel. When I saw this picture of Shark’s Caddis Larva, I thought to myself “Now that looks good!” I need to tie some of these. The pattern is deceptively simple yet it looks so realistic – Radoslav uses a body of twisted [...]

Realistic Flies by Graham Owen

Anthony Naples — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:05:36 +0000

Did you ever feel like you were a pretty good fly tyer? Well don’t pat yourself on the back too hard. While most of us are content to be impressionists with our fly tying, Graham Owen of the Graham Owen Gallery is not. He is to fly tying like a Dutch Master is [...]

The Traitor: A Parachute Style for Small Flies

Anthony Naples — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:26:27 +0000

Size 24 BWO Traitor

The Traitor: A Style for Small Parachute Flies Well, I’m in the process of planning a fishing trip to Colorado. So I’m thinking back to the last trip to CO, and the flies that worked. Inevitably, I never seem to have enough of the flies that are working – so [...]