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From time to time, I like to post photos and links to patterns that REALLY pique my interest. This one comes from Frank Drummond, a tier and guide out of The Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop in Colorado…Here are two photos of the pattern and I’ll let the viewer decide what constitutes their make-up… FRANK’S FLASHY…from [...]

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This is Charlie Craven’s Purple Jujubaetis, developed three years ago as an offshoot of the original Jujubaetis. Charlie’s flies -  JUST CATCH FISH… According to a great article Walter Wiese wrote for  Flyfishing & Tying Journal, “Charlie (Craven) suggests fishing the Purple Jujubaetis under gray skies or during rain and snow storms, in other words, [...]

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In the Fall, on the Owens River and the East and West Walker Rivers, there is a hatch of Grannom Caddis that is often overlooked – given the hatches of Baetis that are popping up all over the place and the angler’s urge to smack something of historic proportions on streamer patterns…these little guys are [...]

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As most of you who follow this BLOG know, this guy…Is MY SON, Michael Barker… He has just put up his own BLOG…HIBISCUS CITY… a photo chronicle of his recent trip to The People’s Republic of China. He will be adding more content as time passes…he is a good photographer… …and fair to middlin’ Fly [...]

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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 a few more fly patterns that I have been working on for this Springs’ fly fishing in the Eastern Sierras and, hopefully – beyond… This would be one of my ( and the kids) favorite spots to pull into, fishing upstream or downstream from this point… “No more pictures…let’s get on it, DAD!!!” [...]

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Well, MIDGES (from Maine Fly Fishing)- the most prolific bug in,on and around water…especially NOW…(Bienvenidos a todos pescador con mosca de Argentina …) Other “CRAZY PEOPLE” who Fly Fish in the SNOW… Michael, freezing on the Owens River in January. 2004… Here are some patterns I have whipped up based on the proven ties by [...]

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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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In the next week or so (Sat. 10.10 or Sun 10.11), I will post new Baetis/BWO patterns and the story of how my son Michael was introduced to Fly Fishing and how he now outperforms his Pop …(sometimes)… Ally and Michael at the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery on Oak Creek just North of Independence, CA… [...]

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Jean Marie Hon, 1984, birthmark in left eye-I love that… * THERE ARE MANY MORE PHOTOS ON MY FRONT PAGE, CLICK ON RECENT POSTS IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN OR PLANETTROUT ABOVE MY HEADER * PT, Nadia and my Mother, 1973, just after she was diagnosed with brain cancer… PT, Munich , 1975 Outside Dublin, [...]

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