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Rocky Mountain National Park: Cutthroat
Well I don’t have much to say. Have you ever run out of words? I haven’t posted in quite a while because I haven’t had much worthy to add to the cloud. There is already […]
Year: 2010
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Woodchuck, or is it Groundhog?
Lately I’ve been messing around with tying “one-animal” flies. That is, all materials come from the same beast, excepting the thread and the hooks. The post that I did a while back on the Casual […]
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Midge Madness or the Tiny Terror
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 […]
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Another Sketch and Another Question: Trout #2
This spring I took a trip to Yellow Creek in Bedford County, PA. I caught this one particular brown trout that had spectacular blue spots. I had never really noticed these before on brown trout. […]
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Casual Dress: Some Variations on a Theme
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, […]
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Inspired by Others #1: Winona Fly Factory
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 […]
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Thinking of Summer
In the bleak midwinter with thoughts of more coming snow, I was inspired by a photo from this past summer. Many of us start our fishing lives with sunfish. Some of us never leave that […]