Happy Halloween!

[troutpocket]

I restocked a couple patterns that have been good for me lately. I’m hoping to put them to work soon. The colors seem seasonally appropriate!

 

[Islander]

Mmmmm, you got me thinking. Maybe some green semi-seal leeches with a red bead head for Christmas!

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Mmmmm, you got me thinking. Maybe some green semi-seal leeches with a red bead head for Christmas!

Fly Tying: The Christmas Tree

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[Islander]

Fly Tying: The Christmas Tree

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That’s pretty cool.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

That’s pretty cool.

I've always kicked around the idea of trying one of the crazy holiday flies. I might try one this year - that one would be top of the list, looks simple enough. I like the idea of having an ornament to hang on the tree that's a 'fly'.

Or I might try this one:

 

[Islander]

Heck, I’d fish that Christmas tree fly. The pigs in the local C&R lake right now pretty much eat anything you put in front of them. Ice must be coming soon!

 

[Buzzy]

I restocked a couple patterns that have been good for me lately. I’m hoping to put them to work soon. The colors seem seasonally appropriate!
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Bill Marts, The Blue Dun, showed me a simple marabou steelhead pattern he called the Trick or Treat. It's tied with orange and black marabou: caught my first fly rod steelhead with that fly (Wenatchee River). I really like the orange hot spot head on your top two leeches (I'm almost out of Canadian Brown).

 

[Islander]

Bill Marts, The Blue Dun, showed me a simple marabou steelhead pattern he called the Trick or Treat. It's tied with orange and black marabou: caught my first fly rod steelhead with that fly (Wenatchee River). I really like the orange hot spot head on your top two leeches (I'm almost out of Canadian Brown).

That Canadian Brown is good color. A leech pattern with it got me a monster out of @Roper ’s secret ”pig lake”.

 

[Northern]

I've had very good luck with these halloweeny ones for some of my biggest fish


But I have not attempted to fish my Xmas gift flies

 

[Porter2]

Couple of my favorite October Yakima Leeches!

 

[Islander]

I've had very good luck with these halloweeny ones for some of my biggest fish
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But I have not attempted to fish my Xmas gift flies
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Those tree patterns are way to pretty to fish!

 

[Buzzy]

I've had very good luck with these halloweeny ones for some of my biggest fish
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But I have not attempted to fish my Xmas gift flies
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I really dig that orange/black jig

 

[troutpocket]

Bill Marts, The Blue Dun, showed me a simple marabou steelhead pattern he called the Trick or Treat. It's tied with orange and black marabou: caught my first fly rod steelhead with that fly (Wenatchee River). I really like the orange hot spot head on your top two leeches (I'm almost out of Canadian Brown).

Hot spot leeches are never a bad option. I’m also almost out of both Canadian brown and Canadian black.