Its nice to see some folks getting away from the heat. This is definitely the time of the year to get away and have a little taste of the north. Everything is cooperating, here are few images from the last couple of weeks.

Catfish and carp fell for my damselfly nymph and glo-bug(see inside carp's mouth)...





Smallmouth bass are going crazy for the old clouser...

Trout, are hitting my cranefly and caddis fly. All dry fly fishing so far this month. Its simply awesome.









I'm going to try to get some pure cutts and beautiful brookies in the next few days. If I can only get myself motivated to take my yak to the nearby reservoir, I'd go after some pike. I got some flies ready at least, I hope.




Wishing everyone a great summer. Carry on.

Dude.... Seriously. Write a book... I'd buy it.

What Clear Cure Goo said...

And I have to ask, what camera are you carrying on the stream to take those photos with?

That Cranfly is the tits! Nicely done, man!

Excelent fish, flies and fotos as usual. Keep them coming.

Uhhhmmmm, no. That will get in the way of fishing and tying. Nice to know I have one or two buyer just in case.

Olympus Tough 8000. A simple point and shoot camera. It is waterproof, freezeproof and shockproof though. A klutz like me need all that.

Thanks.

how much $ per fly? those look incredible! I think those are the most impressive flies ive ever seen. Thank you

both the damsel and the crane are most excellent......

nice pics too. thanks or sharing

Thank you TonkawaTrout and Tx Archeo.

As far as selling my flies, I've never done such a thing ever. I'm just a passionate amateur. If you guys haven't seen kelkay's "latest flies you have been working on?" thread in the fly tying section, please check it out. I've posted a few flies there. You'll also see some nice work from some other posters there as well. Seeing both your post count, I welcome you both to the forum. Now, tie us something and post a pic of your latest flyfishing adventure, we'd love to see it.

Very nice work! Awesome flies, awesome fish!

Thank you scooter aggie, glad you like em.

You say that way too much. There is now way in hell that you are an amateur. I know an amateur, and you sir.... Are no amateur.

Okay then if you insist. Just for you, you owe me a couple of beer. I saw the fall/summer feather-craft e-catalog, thats a kick.

Great photos and fish. I particularly liked the crane fly and damsel fly.

I'm too jealous for words. Nice pic's, it almost made it feel a few degrees cooler around here. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks kelkay and SBridges. Summer is indeed nicer weatherwise up here but yet I hear locals bitch about how hot it is when its only 85 freaking degrees high and cools down to nice 55 at night.

Couple more brown trout from last night, again with the caddis dry fly I posted above. I did see that one monster brown I've been hunting for the last year and glad that its still around. It will be an epic catch if I ever catch the darn thing. Oh the fun of this madness.

Female


Male

More summer fun on a hopper. Yes, they were lippin hoppers like trout. It doesn't get any better than that for me when it comes to carp fishing.

Couple of pics of one of several landed from yesterday....

Wow! nice carp!

good stuff. the damselfly nymph looks great

Thanks ScottEvil.

Anyway, the carp yesterday were eating this particular hopper pattern of mine(Size 8). It was just awesome! Love hopper season.

Summer water.....



Couple of wild beast....


I apologize for the last pic. I didn't really want to get any closer to that grizz.

Couple of summertime favorite kitchen creations....
Fish Taco


Shrimp fritters

I didn't realize you were in grizzly country! I hope you carry a side arm or at least pepper spray when you're out fishing. All my hunting magazines have been talking about the increased number of attacks in the lower 48 as the grizzlies are becoming more abundant. Wouldn't want to see anything happen to you.

Even with a side arm and pepper spray....hmmm....attacking grizzly.....I may survive for 10 sec. Simple rule, make noice while hiking and if you see one, slowly move away. To be honest, the biggest creature I see all the time are bambis. I've tracked a few mountain lion though. Beautiful country.