Realistic Emerging Stonefly
My friend Marcelo Malventano has created another rather unusual piece of angling art, a stonefly in metamorphosis. For more of his great work, click on his link to the right.
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Selectivity
The concept of selectivity is an easy one to understand–there’s a really, really high concentration of one type of food organism, and the fish feed on that organism and shun all others. This allows the fish to target a known food item and thereby maximize food intake and minimize energy expenditure. Well, we normally think […]
Realistic Dragonfly Nymph
My friend Marcelo Malventano is continually creating new realistic imitations of the insects of his native Argentina. Here’s one that is really wonderfully designed and executed. You can see more at his site—see the link to the right under his name.
John Beth Flies
John has graciously photoed his first-choice steelhead flies. His theory is simple, but quite right: when the steelies are living out in the lake, they eat silver-colored minnows, so they are used to seeing them and know what the are. John had his best day every last Monday when we fished together for the first-run […]
Egg Fly
My fishing pal, John Beth, will be on the river with me on Monday. He loves fishing egg flies for Steelhead, and is very effective at it. His egg “fly” is tied with soft, silicon eggs available from Cabela’s. These are Otter’s Soft Eggs. They are wonderfully simple to tie with and make superb flies. […]
Damsel Borger Designs
My friend Marcelo Malventano from Argentina is a most creative and skilled fly tyer, producing both highly artistic, realistic designs, as well as fishing patterns. He has honored me by designing both a realistic art piece of an emerging damsel fly (called a teneral), and a damsel nymph that is built for fishing. Thank you […]
Bullhead Sculpin #4
Yes there are more sculpins. We’ll end this series with number 4, which illustrates designing with pens. After the basic Bullhead Sculpin is endowed with body and head, scissors and permanent markers are used to enhance the overall look of the imitation. Have a peek at the page for the Bullhead Sculpin #4 to see […]
Bullhead Sculpin #3
OK, Bullhead Sculpin version 3 is up on its own page. Have a look. There are a couple of new spins to the imitation that you will find very interesting and useful in your own design work.
Bullhead Sculpin #2
There’s another great way to add a bit of flash to the Bullhead Sculpin design, and that’s by adding it to the collar. The effect is very nice because the flash is in the collar and not merely on the inside or on the outside of the fly. The flash sparkles within the hair and […]
Bullhead Leech
This is a variation on the Down and Dirty leech that I demonstrated at the Fly Fishing Show in Pleasanton, CA, last weekend. It adds a very dense head of dubbing to give the imitation even more water pushing capacity and to allow the tyer to shape the head if needed. More on shaping the […]