Recent content by James St. Clair

80 degrees yesterday. Loaded up the float tube to check out a hike in lake in Grant County I had some good success at last year, and thena couple other close to it. They are close to a few vineyards I work with, so checked out the vineyards in the AM, and then fished in the warm afternoon temps...

Honestly man, as a horder of fly tying materials, and a guy thay can't go a day without tying a fly...what's up? I don't want your materials, i have more than my kids will ever be able to tie with if they wanted to tie flies, which they don't. Not trying to call you out, just curious why you...

Fly Shops WISH they had our flies. Let them keep selling those horribly tied, cheap, quick to fall apart, flies. We'll keep tying our our own...and KILL IT! Glad to be here, glad to see all your badass creations catching fish!

I worked with Dan (and Mike) at Creekside Angling Co. In Issaquah, in the late '90's. He still lived on Camano Island at the time, and would commute the few days a week he worked. Dan, unfortunately, passed away a few years back. I watched Dan tie so many of those spiders. He used SLF in a...

I should also say, purple is a color that does not work well for me. A lot of my buddies that still guide fish purple all the time. I never catch anything on purple. I sent my son (16 yo) up to a creek this past summer (you know, got his drivers license, wants to fish by himself, despite really...

Ahrex FW511 sz. 12

A few bugs from the past couple weeks.