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Nothing too special other than my first foray into making cork bugs. A buddy has always supplied me with them so I figured time to do some myself. Just messing with the cork I have which is smaller, good bluegill bug size.

@Brute this run of trout bugs is good stuff. For a specific trip or just getting ready?

Mini Lafkas deceiver

@clarkman the lafkas video he ties on a long shank but say on half of it, then attached this shank to the hook shank with thread (after cutting of the eye of the shank. About 12min into the video. Is this what you do or do you connect shank to shank and the second shank is cut and tied onto the...

Interesting, good stuff. Another way that I’ve heard and used is to have more weight in the back end of the fly, this allows that portion of the fly to have more mass and will push the front part of the fly on the stop (which will tend to want to move to the side). Particularly good with a 2...

I like traditional life jackets, more fail safe an option for me. Chinook is a good one (although I don’t use that one personally), but I like the ninja too. Think the old style ninjas are on sale too

@Tom Butler I just broke a tip on an orvis rod and was back to fishing in 8 days. Pretty good in my book. Not an orvis but rather a rodmaker 8’3” glass rod. Fishes bugs real nice