Recent content by GAT

Clear plastic versions were available through flyfishing material outlets. You can make your own with large plastic tubing you cut to size and then slice lengthwise so it will fit around your spool.

I did a search and it seems that 70 degrees is the cutoff for fishing the Firehole. I guess when you start out with a warm river due to the very hot water upstream in the Midway Geyser Basin it doesn't take much in hot weather to push the temps over the 70 degree range.

At one point in the past, my wife and I would go to YNP every year for a vacation fishing trip -- usually in September. I never did great on the Firehole but did surprise myself by catching browns with a Chestnut WB ... which is designed for lakes, not warm rivers. What I remember the...

A olive and black variegated body woolly bugger I call The Chestnut. (short for That Ol' Chestnut) I've caught more fish in still waters with this pattern than anything else. If you're talking about using it in a one fly contest, I tie it with super glue.

Well that is just way cool ....

I believe it is called thinning out of the herd ...

During the 70s and 80s, we used Comet (Boss) style flies with great success to fool salmon. The bead-chain eyes make them whistle if you false cast them much. We switched to the dumbbell eyes when they first came out but we found that the fish preferred the bead-chain eyes over the...

Yes. I use two feathers of dry fly quality. Coachman brown and Grizzly. I don't want them to collapse as do wet fly quality. I believe the stouter fibers give the pattern a different profile than the webby type. The tail and body is indeed one marabou feather twisted and wrapped...

I came up with guy a number of years ago. It uses the same colors as an Adams dry fly. I figured it it has proven itself as a dry fly, why not use the same color combination for a Woolly Bugger? It did work. I sent it to fly angler I knew around the country and asked them to try it...

No clue where you were but the place certainly has nice fish ! The smallmouth trout is even a big one !

I was thinking about Skip and OMJ today. I sure miss their posts ... Sorry about your friend, Matt.

Wow. When they start removing the catch limit, they must believe a drought is on the way. I've seen the ODF&W drop bag limits in the Cascades but this is the first time I've heard of them doing so in NE Oregon: NORTH POWDER — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will suspend size as...

I don't think those in favor of the insanity would have done well during the pioneer days. Unless the Oregon Trail was lined with fruits and vegetables.

Ticks .... the menace of the forest. I don't believe they serve any purpose, so begone with them all 😤

I met Darrel at one of the first FFF Oregon Fly Tying Expos in Eugene. He taught me, Rocky and John how to tie a woven dragon fly nymph pattern. Great guy. Fantastic fly tier.... I still have the fly he tied.