Mark Knapp

Got the wormies today, thank you very much.

I already did the "One flew over the toilet paper" Be careful, cats are even getting the virus now. Copy cat.😋

You need to put that in the bent hooks thread. 😋 This thread is for fish pictures.😋😄

I'll play in this sand box. I'll give you the species after some consideration.

You guys are so lucky to be able to share that. My wife likes that I do it, she just doesn't want to.

Thank you bud.

Very cool Kevin. You guys are all really tying some nice stuff.

The heads on the two Bone fish flies are Sally Hanson over red thread. Thanks for the kind comments.

In the spring the salmon smolt that hatched last summer will make a run from the lakes to the rivers and then to the ocean. They are three to four inches long and when they hit the outlets of the lakes, lake trout are there to ambush them. It can be really quite fun to watch. The small schools of smolt will make a run through the shallows into the mouth of the river. When the lake trout run at them the smolt will be skipping across the top of the water in a fan. I have adapted the Rainbow Runner fly pattern to look a little more like Sockeye and Chinook smolt By adding grizzly chickabou feathers and removing the rainbow colored flash. I also tied some without the barred grizzly feathers to simulate Least Ciscos. Least Ciscos are the primary baitfish in most of our interior lake trout lakes. Next I tied some Bone Fish flies from the Orvis index Frankie-Belle Horror

When I used the search function all I got was current threads not old threads, should I have gone into the archives?

Yeah, I kept Googling it too, but everything I found just kept coming back to the picture with no SBS. What's your search engine? Bing was worthless, Yahoo was worthless, I found the most on Firefox but still....

At least the state did open up our resident bear season, at first they closed down both the resident and non-resident seasons, for some reason. Knee jerk reactions.

Nice fish, unless you have really small hands. I really miss that kind of fishing.

Thank you very much, how'd you find it?

My first trip was very successful but it's not my fault. Two of my best friends took my wife and I ( We were already in our late forties) and they were very avid fly fisher-people. He was/is an old school caster from Colorado and his wife a pretty good caster in her own right. She owned her own drift boat and piloted it (she went to school for that, fly-guiding and such). They brought us to the upper China river. We had a great day on the water and landed over a hundred grayling. At the end of the float they gave me the fly rod I had used, a Sage 6 wt. That was the beginning of the end for me, now my fly tying room is bigger than my bed room.

That is good news, all of our sporting goods stores are still open. The state is encouraging outdoor sports activities in ones and twos.

My popper bodies painted. That's a white undercoat with hammered copper spray paint shot from just the top.

"No Toilet Paper For Old Men"

OK, I found the Bergman collection from the Hatches website, but when I click on the "fly patterns" button on the Hatches Magazine menu it redirects me back to this site, the same as it dose when I click on the blue "Rainbow Runner" link on the "Rainbow Runner" page in the link above. It's a circular trap.

Before the new format, it was really easy to look up fly patterns like the Ray Bergman Collection, Don Bastion flies. Right now I'm looking for the SBS for this fly, But now I can't find it. It seems it was a link to a Hatches Magazine archive or something. Anybody know how to find it?

Thank you very much and be sure to let me know if I can ever do anything for you.

Yes, I've used them and you can't hardly break them. They're quite stretchy.

I got a lot of these broken bobbers from ice fishing. Ice fishing is hard on bobbers, or I am. I flattened the bottoms of them, grooved them and glued in hooks. I think they will mak some fine poppers, these ones will probably be frogs.

I really like how sparse that Fox Hole is Norm, that's a beauty. That shows a lot more restraint than I can muster, but I will try.

Yep, that's probably as close to a Bagwell as I've gotten. Thanks.