Last week I treated my son to a redfish tip to pay him back for his treating me to a couple of guided trips in Arkansas and Tennessee. We were fishing out of New Orleans and the weather of course was not cooperating, threatening skies, no sun, etc. At first light we ran around looking … More Father-Son Redfish Trip
Recently I was at the reservoir casting to bream eating mayflies and the water was just a few inches below the top of my waders. Normally I keep my elbow pretty low and bring it back on a plane, rolling my shoulder with it to “keep it on a shelf”. Being in water that deep, … More Some Casting Notes
The fly fishing weekend formerly known as GI or Grand Isle Weekend has returned. Out of the ashes the Phoenix rises. Hurricanes, venue issues and plandemics have conspired to seemingly keep the event infinitely cancelled but just last week we got the call. In 2017 it was issues with scheduling our venue that put the … More Leeville Fly Fishing Weekend Returns
May has arrived, the days have gotten warm and muggy, the moon is waning towards a new moon on the 11th. All of those things have my senses on high alert for the first Mayfly hatch at the reservoir. To most local fishermen, the hex hatch at the Rez is a puzzling mystery. I have … More For a Bug on a Windshield We Wait…
I love this Reverse Parachute Mayfly. The one above was tied by me (not very well) using the video below, by Barry Ord Clarke. I didn’t have any “swimming nymph” hooks so I had to just bend a Tiemco 200R hook, it’s a number ten. It really needs to be on a wider gap hook … More Reverse Parachute Mayfly
I’m just now finding out about the “Bob Ross Party”. (I don’t get out much.) Initially started for kids painting parties, the Bob Ross party has been adapted for adults for, I guess, COVID relief, not to mention politics. As I understand attendees often imbibe their favorite beverage to Bob’s calming voice and soothing little … More The Bob Ross Fly Tying Party
I hope everyone’s fishing is going well. I can’t get anything going myself. Booked a marsh trip for June, really looking forward to that because local fishing has sucked. Finally hooked into a few bream, including this nice one below. It’s about time. I think the bait fishermen have mostly cleaned them out of my … More On a Few Fronts…
This weekend my son and I spent a beautiful cool day rambling the swamps looking for turkeys, hogs and deer sheds. It was a great day even though we saw and heard no turkeys and our only hog opportunity was the result of getting busted and having to watch them run off through the thick … More Dragonfly Encounter
I never liked using dumbbell eyes on an EP crab. The eyes just get in the way of the crab body build. I mean its OK and all, the crabs with dumbbell eyes are fine but I also just don’t like using up my dumbbell eyes, of which I never have enough of, on a … More EP Crab w/o Dumbbell eyes
I’m on a kick just tying well-known patterns. They will go in my box for my own use. Bissett’s Mud Bug is another pattern, like the Louisiana Toad, created by a well-known Louisiana guide and sold by Orvis at the local Orvis store and online, below: Here’s mine. Maybe I clipped it too clean, but … More Bissett’s Mud Bug
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