Pelhament

This is what I had in mind. The picture is a little blurry but you should still be able to make it out. Its more of a low water pattern but it still meets all the qualities of the original. Let me know what you think.

It's in the Thread Title, September 30th. Hey John, I'm loving the new avatar, only 3 more days!

I'll bite with a Purple Peril. Are we tying these in their classic version or can we tie modified versions of the classics? I am good with either.

Black and Kingfisher Blue is probably the best leech combo I have found for Steelhead. Closely followed by Black/Purple and Purple/Pink.

Its an Element, not a minivan. Smartass I modified the original Element logo. My last name is Pelham and I drive an Element, which has been dubbed the Pelhament and thus my screenname. Thanks for the kind words guys!

Check out the Hatches article on the Chubby Muffin. Best Sculpin pattern I have seen yet and its a pretty easy tie.

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by Pelhament: Trout Intruder

Its in the title.

Stay in West Yellowstone, Island park area. Get a park fishing pass and hit all the rivers you can. The Yellowstone, Slough Creek, the Firehole the Gibbon, etc, etc.. When I was there a couple years ago we caught Bows, BIG cutts, browns, brookies, whitefish and grayling, it was a great trip! I will hopefully be going back next summer/fall.

Dang man that is serious. Glad you are OK and feeling better, but definitely take it easy buddy.

That looks like a killer!

I have to admit these look nothing like this anymore though. My egg box looks about the same but the nymph box has been used quite a lot. I've got a handful of steelhead to hand so far this year and when we get some rain we should be able manage multiple fish days.

Thanks again Hubby! If I were to strip them down (which I am 90% certain won't happen) I would just retie them by doing a dubbing loop of bunny for the body instead of palerming the bunny strips. Getting rid of the hide can reduce a lot of weight since it so spongy and sucks up so much water. However, these flies are pretty tame compared to a lot of my bass flies. I am more worried about trout applications with my 6wt, but I don't want to talk about those fish much in this forum

I'm glad someone put two and two together with the name. Thanks for the compliments guys!

The weight is nothing that a 75' arc can't fix... The heads themselves aren't all that heavy and the weight is distributed so that in this configuration they should ride hook point up as shown. I am more worried about casting them after the rabbit hide has soaked up a bunch of water. If I find they are getting too heavy I will probably strip them down and put the rabbit in a dubbing loop and cut off the hide, aside from the tail.

Correct, its just a palmered rabbit strip. Cross-cut works best for palmering.

I tied up some streamers last night using Fish Skulls. I have to say that I really like them. Here are some bunny baitfish I tied up using a pattern from their website.

It shouldn't, the garage is completely insulated and dry walled so it should stay just as dry as the rest of the house. It has stayed pretty cool in there in these 90-100 degree days we have been having lately, so I am hoping it stays somewhat warm when the weather dips this winter. Either way, its nothing a heater can't fix.

Great idea, this should be a good one!

Mine are now in the mail.

That's rad! I love the name too!

I'm waiting on some cases to show up so I can ship these out. Without something protecting them, I have a feeling they'd look like crap by the time they got to everyone.

You have to weed through a bit of BS, but there is about 6 or 7 pages of discussion starting here. http://www.drakemag.com/messageboard/viewt...2&start=870

Basically it boiled down to trout hit baitfish from the side to stun them, then swallow them head first. If you are swinging down and across then the hook in the back is good, but if you are casting upstream and stripping back to you, you aren't going to get as many hookups with a stinger hook, since the fish are going to hit it from the side or front. I can go into more detail tomorrow, if you'd like.

Yeah, the fur was all up in the hook's business so I though I'd try it down. Normally I only use the beading wire on my steelhead flies like intruders and what not. I think I am going to stick with the dacron for these trout/bass (for you day5) flies. After a pretty long conversation on another forum I think I am going to stick to a single sized 2 streamer hook for future ties though. I got a pretty good explanation of how trout hit properly fished streamers and having a hook way in the back may be a little counterintuitive. So I am going to start tying them like I would for bass with the hook more towards the front/middle of the fly. Where as if you are swinging flies, having the hook all they way in the back makes more sense.