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Hook: Kona XSS 2/0 weed guard 20# Mason hard mono tail: 2 grizzly saddle hackles and 6 neck hackles - olive grizzly, yellow grizzly and grizzly Collar deer hair- black over olive over white body and diving collar-black, olive orange, chartreuse over white front legs- silicone eyes- 6 mm Another...

I use 12# maxima chameleon for the connection on smallish trout flies. Mainly because I have some and it works well enough.

My latest likely failure of innovation. The wiggle chironomid. Live chironomids in throat sample seem awfully lively and wriggly to me I thought it might work. Untested as of yet.

I was about 12 miles out from the road in BWCA one late fall and trolling a jointed rapala as I traveled back towards the car at the end of a five day trip. Hooked an 8-10 pound northern. Hadn’t brought a net as this was a jig fishing walleye trip and I was trying to travel light. The pike did...

Spring is arriving in the mid- Columbia basin too. Spring migrants like the Sandhill Cranes And the Greater White Fronted Geese Many primarily winter birds like the bald eagles and snow geese are still around.

This is the Kara😄

and it went surprisingly well. Ran out of orange body hair needed for a project , so I found some light elk, some bleached deer and some deer belly hair in a stash I had gotten from a taxidermist. This was cheap, easy and somewhat fun. It does take a bit of time though. I had previously dyed...

Snowy afternoon today.

It is my opinion based on a couple of thousand lake trout on Lake Superior, Yellowstone lake, Palisades Reservoir in Idaho. and inland MN lakes that lake trout are not deep water fish by nature. They have a preferred temperature range of about 45-54 degrees F and a combination of these...

Some different Otters off the Bateman Island Causeway in the snow. There were a family of five hunting along the edge of the ice and even popping up through the rotten ice along the shoreline with a loud bang.

They are called bug collars. I bought them years ago, but I think that Firehole sells them now. They are brass- a little weight and a hotspot.

Some balanced leeches in the three colors I like. Size 8 and 12 FM 6050 hooks

Otter in Richland

Maybe build a couple of Wood ducks boxes to attract them. Great for screech owls as well😉

Critters from the last couple of days.

On the South slope of Rattlesnake Mountain outside of Richland.

Nope, they would be ok in bigger numbers.

This is an interesting fly. Not difficult but time consuming. Hook: 2x long dryfly #8 Body: orange deer Hackle: palmered grizzly Extension: 25# Mason Hard mono Wing: light elk tied on the extension.