I tied these two fly patterns up a few weeks back but never posted any pictures. Take a look and let me know what you think of their Basstastic ability. This fly is made of two hooks and probably leans more towards the Muskie/Pike world but I decided to put together a perch pattern with [...]
Last night at 11:46pm I came to the realization that after all of the hard work and fanfare over my new DIY fly tying desk, I neglected to actually tie anything on it. Two weeks with no fly tying makes me cranky… With a burning desire to put some Bigmouths on the end of my new Sage [...]
What started as a simple DIY woodworking project turned into a full blown piece of furniture. I use the term DIY but be warned this project may require some of the skills your learned in high school shop class. Before I dig in here, I want to share a link from Pinterest. My fly tying [...]
Lately the internet has been buzzing about foam popper flies. It seems every other day I’m seeing a new video on tying foam bodied flies. Since I have my new, pretty, Sage Bass rod and plenty of time to wait till warm water fishing heats up, I figure the cold months are perfect for [...]
Did a little work at the fly tying bench tonight. It was a great way to end a short work week. Nothing like banging out half a dozen flies to calm the nerves. Tonight I focused on two chenille intensive patterns. The first, an old standby, the San Juan worm and a new fly (to me) [...]
So my last trip to Valley Creek for wild Brown Trout was a bit of a strikeout but I did catch something special… Yep, you read that caption right. I caught this Caddis Larvae on my good old 5 wt rod. (In his defense he was doing his best to hide in a big clump [...]
If you’ve been keeping your eye on the news lately, you know the road has been a rough one for Borders Books. Back in February, Borders filed for Bankruptcy and closed about 1/3 of its bookstores. Today began another chapter in the Borders story, the start of the liquidation sale that will end the remaining [...]
While I haven’t gotten around to posting the fishing mayham that was last weekend’s outing with my mom, I will tell you we caught a lot of fish. I’ll also tell you there was a downside to our method… GRUBS. Last weekend I experienced “Butter Worms” for the first time and these things are nasty! [...]
Its been a while since I’ve indulged in one of my favorite vices. Tonight I was in the mood to dive in and enjoy this vice to its fullest extent. I decided to take my vice to all new levels… I danced the Crayfish jig! I know, I know, all this talk of vices and [...]
If you’ve been following @funcfish on twitter you know that I’ve been posting a lot of late night cellphone pics of flies I’ve been tying. While I’m still waiting for a few extra hours in my day to post ALL of the fly pics up on this site I thought I’d put my latest creation [...]
