Warm Water Fly Box Porn

[cornmuse 0]

Bob contributed a wonderful installment of Fly Box Porn to the FFO site featuring flies for this fish .

 

Bob photographed all the flies and they came out superbly! :headbang: Also, every fly has its associated pattern listed. Check it out! Thanks Bob!!!! Fly Fish Ohio Here are a couple teasers:

 

 

 

Joe C.

[CDG 0]

With fall in full swing and winter attempting to take hold here in the PNW, those pictures sure make me miss long hot summer days.

[letumgo 0]

WOW!!! That is another outstanding article, Bob. I've learned a ton from each of your articles, and this is no exception. I am definitely adding those patterns to my bass box for next year. I really love the adaptation of the classic wet patterns into bass patterns. I think it would be a hoot to catch a bass on these beauties.

 

Bob - Thanks for the inspiration.

Joe - Thanks for posting the link. Great addition.

[fcflyguy 0]

That is one great site you have their

FC

[Correus 0]

Hey -

 

You said "...every fly has its associated pattern listed".

 

Where are they listed? I REALLY like the two pictured. :help:

[Correus 0]

DUH!!!! Found them..... :wallbash:

[cornmuse 0]

[Harold Ray 0]

What's FFO and where is the article or book?

 

Ray

[letumgo 0]

Ray, Here is a direct link to the Bob Petti article. Be sure to scroll down to look at all of the wonderful flies are shown towards the bottom of the article.

 

http://www.flyfishohio.com/Fly_Box_Porn_Bob_Petti.htm

 

 

[day5 0]

I think Ive looked at that box 100 times..

[madkasel 0]

Wowsers. Impressive stuff, as usual.

 

I really like the fly photographed with the hook stuck into a crack in an old piece of wood. Very nice!

[bobpetti 0]

That "old piece of wood" is the railing around my back deck, lol. Yeah - I know - it's in terrible need of a fresh coat of something. Just ask my wife. :hyst:

 

I took those photos outside on a cloudy day, just to see how they looked compared to the standard indoor shots of a fly in a vise with a blue background and a couple surround lights. I think these shots are a bit too dark, but that could be my monitor. Another reason I went this way is because so many of the flies were tied with lead eyes where I wanted to make sure I took the photo showing the true orientation of the fly as it should be fished. A fly flipped upside down in a vise looks a little weird, but a fly "eyes down" on a board looks normal.

 

Thanks for all the kind words, fellas. Some of those flies are purely flights of fancy, I will admit. Sometimes you do things just to break up the monotony of tying the same six flies over and over again. I figured it would be a hoot to hook a few bass on unlikely flies (or try to), even if a black rabbit strip leech will outfish just about everything else in the box on 9 days out of 10.