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  1. James St. Clair

    What's Catching You Fish?

    Moptober Caddis Pupa Under this October Caddis Chubby Caught a couple dozen of these Here, on a beautiful October Day. Chubby and this alternate version using different Mop Chenille caught a ton of fish as well.
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    Oct '23 Gifford Pinchot Lakes part 2

    I don't see anything in this report about my Chardonnay...😂
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    What's in your vise?

    Awesome that you provided how you fish it. Looks like a great pattern!
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    Tying Technique question: Anti-fouling tails on buggers

    Not really answering your direct question, but I have had good luck poking a hole in the rabbit strip about 1/2" behind where it extends off the bend of the hook and then threading 20lb. Mono through that to create a loop. Basically tie your mono on, tie the tail on and poke a hole through the...
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    Yellow UV cure

    These are all RaidZap colored Resins. Gulff is very similar. I would say both are mainly solid, but if you look close, slightly transparent near the surface.
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    Yellow UV cure

    That's what I got when I first started, and yesz those little tubes are a PITA! However, don't discount solarez. Their bone dry in the glass bottle with brush applicator is pretty awesome stuff. I use it for finishing heads on most of my flies. It is super thin though. For wing cases, or...
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    New Orleans Redfish in February

    We went through https://www.southernflyexpeditions.com/, Capt. Brandon Keck. We went in a big group (8 of us), so I actually never fished with Capt. Brandon. But, we had a great time with all of his guides, super friendly, professional, and fishy. Unfortunately due to severe weather, our...
  8. James St. Clair

    On the local

    After a recent trip to Fernie, BC (I will try and post a report about that separately), I had put my boots in one recyclable bag and my reels in an identical recyclable bag. I had only about 2 hours to fish, and in a rush, I grabbed the reel bag instead of my boots bag. I had flops on, so why...
  9. James St. Clair

    Bird or Bug ?

    Randomly saw one of these today leaving one of the wineries I work with. These things are cool! Looked like it had a tongue just like a hummingbird!
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    Changing luck

    After my first few days of telling the guide "we want to target permit", and seeing less permit than we did when we said we wanted to target barracuda and bonefish, I stopped asking to target permit. I now always ask to target barracuda where we might also be able to catch some bonefish, and we...
  11. James St. Clair

    What's in your vise?

    The original Mop 😅😉
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    What's in your vise?

    Thanks! The wing on the Hippie Stomper is Blended Congo Hair. I think I used olive, black, and pale yellow.
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    What's in your vise?

    I tied some of these up a while ago in Green Drake colors. Have yet to fish them. Hard to switch from my mini mocha Chubby right now.
  14. James St. Clair

    Seratella nymphs

    Yes, hare and partridge work just the same, but I sure do love the mottling on those Brahma and Cog de Leon hen saddles from Whiting. I think those flies could be either a caddis or a mayfly. I was thinking about that the other day, especially with that Duracell Jig I posted in the perdigon...
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    Seratella nymphs

    This is the mayfly that warrants the purchase of coq de leon and/or Brahma hne saddles in all the colors!
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    Perdigons

    Perdigon = pellet. I can't bring myself to fish a pellet, so I always add a little bit of something. Duracell Jig has been spectacular lately. I think this works cause it's basically an @Tom Butler Hare's Ear type fly. This Spanish Bullet soft hackle is a favorite of mine. Should have tried...
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    What's in your vise?

    Seeing some of these starting to fly around on my local. Hopefully they are still going when the flows calm down. Extended body tilt-wing PMD.
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    June tying contest and May results:

    You missed that he misspelled quite.
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    May tying contest and April results

    I feel like there are 2 pretty good submissions...
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