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5/29/2013

 
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. 
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Oregon beaver habitat
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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.
Jim Parton
7/5/2013 05:28:47 am

Aaron, the photos in this post make me want to start fishing again.


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    Aaron M. Ostoj

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