Ok, I'll admit, today's Daily Fly is going to be real weak in the "fly" department. I even showed up at the shop early today to tie a nice spey fly to post on my blog. But, phone messages, orders, and walk in customers (thanks for coming in guys!) kept that from happening. So instead, you get a couple of pretty pictures to look at from my weekend.
Yesterday morning, I decided to hit up a couple of coastal beaverponds in search of native cutthroat trout. I struck out on the first two, but finally found a pond that had some fish. I love these little cutties. They are full of spirit, rarely fished, and worth all of the effort it takes to find them.
Yesterday morning, I decided to hit up a couple of coastal beaverponds in search of native cutthroat trout. I struck out on the first two, but finally found a pond that had some fish. I love these little cutties. They are full of spirit, rarely fished, and worth all of the effort it takes to find them.
Oregon beaver habitat
The reward....
I think you could throw just about any fly pattern in your box and catch these little guys. But the pattern I fished yesterday was just a simple soft hackle. It doesn't get any easier that that to tie or fish. I lose a lot of flies in the close quarter game of fishing beaver ponds, so patterns that are easy to tie are a must.
PARTRIDGE AND ORANGE:
Body: Orange silk
Hackle: One turn of partridge.
That's it!! No need to make it more complicated that it needs to be. Tie some up, hike........catch fish.
PARTRIDGE AND ORANGE:
Body: Orange silk
Hackle: One turn of partridge.
That's it!! No need to make it more complicated that it needs to be. Tie some up, hike........catch fish.
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