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I was checking through my fly boxes and discovered a few patterns that are in very short supply…these were guys that have worked for me in late May and early June up in the central pat of the High Sierras, on the Eastern Slope. Rumor has it that my son may be coming down from [...]

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The following photos are panoramic pictures of various places that involve mountains, rivers, lakes and a kid with her favorite desert…Thanks to my daughter Nadia, I can play around with them and put them up…Most will be used as kind of “rotating header” through the coming months. Until Nadia assisted me, they were going nowhere. [...]

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I have been Fly Fishing in the Bridgeport, CA area since late 1974. It has always been one of my favorite spots in the Eastern Sierras to visit Back in the day, there were no shoulder to shoulder crowds – one could have the East Walker River to themselves… Then came “THE MOVIE”. There are [...]

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Lots more photos of my trekking around the South/ Western portion of the Great Basin…with the “Evil Spawn”… Ally finds something black and shiny while groovin’ on Pearl Jam… Ally, leaning on the ONLY post over 5′ high in Deep Springs Valley…while looking for more black and shiny objects… Cocktail onions skewered on a BENCHMADE…near [...]

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These are three great Caddis patterns…So, next in and out my vise will be a combination of all three with a twist…LITERALLY… Dennis Potter’s Opal X Caddis… Walter Wiese’s Olive Clacka Caddis…(link updated 1/16/11) Craig Matthew’s Amber Iris Caddis… TWISTED PWM CADDIS HOOK: TMC 102Y, # 13 – # 19 THREAD: Gordon Griffith, 14/0 Sheer, [...]

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This particular fly has probably caught more fish for me, Michael and Ally – than ANY other attractor pattern that I have used through the years. I tie it on Daiichi 1560 Hooks, TMC 5262 and Mustad 3906B in sizes #10 -#18 ( scud hooks are a fine alternative too). I have an entire box [...]

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Here they is: PHOTO: “BAETIS” – John Jurasek, Blue Ribbon Flies Newsletter The prolific little bugs that love to hatch on overcast, blustery, rainy, snowy, miserable and memorable days on waters everywhere. I LOVE these guys… OLIVE/BROWN Baetis… Hook: TMC 2487, Diiachi 1130, #16-24 (Fall SMALL) THREAD: Gordon Griffiths, 14/0, olive or gray TAIL: Three [...]

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…and Ally, Nadia and Michael…a mixed bag before and after…. A special place in the Southern Sierras… On a boat, with a friend, in Mexico, just before I met her… Jean, on the beach in Malibu , BBQ Chicken…ummmm – goooood, 1981… Ally at 1 ( 1990), hamming it up… Jean and Nadia in Bridgeport [...]

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The next day was the day the NY Yankees beat the Dodgers 5-3 in their third World Series game. I know, my Father insisted on my listening to it on the radio. My Dad, his Grandson Michael and Jean Marie Hon… We departed West Yellowstone at 5:00AM. I wanted to drive straight through to Bridgeport [...]

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Michael on the Owens, Fall 2002 Ally blasting on the Owens, Fall 2003 Above: Michael & Ally Goose Lake, Owens Valley, Winter 1994 Above: Pond, Road to Glacier, Big Pine, CA Fall 2000 Michael & Ally, $3.00 Bridge, 2004 Planettrout, North Fork of The Tule River, Spring 2007 Michael, Hot Creek, CA, 2003 Michael in [...]

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