Recent content by Mike Monsos

Tom will be smiling seeing his rod on home water.

I think that may be about right, it's pretty large.

"The Stayner Ducktail is a classic wet fly and streamer pattern invented in the 1960s by Ruel Stayner, a sporting goods store owner from Twin Falls, Idaho designed to imitate perch fry." My good friend Kent Lufkin acquired a Stayner Ducktail from Ruel himself. Kent gifted me this fly a few...

Man Dave, those flies you tie are amazing and very effective!

Thanks Jerry, best of luck and keep on keeping on!

Great adventure and pictures, thanks for sharing. Mike

Me too LOL!

Thanks for the details, I really like the old growth color and look myself. I need to find a cottonwood tree with a downed section. When we lived on Ames Lake there was a GIANT cottonwood tree next door. I really hated the seeds it dropped on our cars and left brown stains on the finish. If...

One more question, when you cut the bark piece into 1/2" slabs do you use a table saw? Do you first cut the bark chunk into say 2"x say 5" long boards to have a flat edge to stand the piece on a cut edge for the next cut to the 1/2" thick board to be ready for the 1 1/4" hole saw? I guess I'm...

Those look great! Thanks for the tutorial that answers a lot of questions I had. Mike

WOW!!!!! The whole package looks great! Maybe you could share a quick outline of how you created the grip with the cotton wood bark. I'm starting to see a use for those trees now LOL. Mike

Another great adventure and report Dave! Thanks.

Just point and shoot, it's almost automatic with a parabolic taper. I love them too. Mike

I forgot to mention that Dave had the Wilderness Lite tube inflated for me and insisted that I get on the water and do some fishing while he tried to come up with a solution to the valve in the other Wilderness. I was going to come back if Dave could not fix the valve. But luckily Dave was on...

What a fun way to spend a Friday with a good friend, on a secret pond and some very aggressive cutties after a short hike with a loaned Wilderness Lite float tube from Dave! I landed a dandy on a damsel nymph right off the start, about 13" plus, beautiful fish and very frisky and healthy. I...