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Caddisflies by Gary LaFontaine, Stoneflies by Swisher,Richards,and Arbona, Aquatic Entolmology by W. Patrick McCafferty(the entolmoligist bible) Hatches and Hatches 2 by Caucci and Natasi, last the # 1 book by the entolomoligist of our times------Nymphs by Ernest Schwiebert... These are all you need to identifiy insects..

I've always used mustad and partridge for my tying, they were the best you could get for years. Now I use whatever I need for a particular pattern. I still use mustad for the majority though.. as for rust unlees they are s.s. hooks will rust.

rabbit fur is good for nymphs but as a dry fly material I would stay away from rabbit.. Rabbit soaks up water compared to beaver, muskrat, etc.

you might want to try "envirotex lite" to mount some flies, I use it to coat wood surf fishing lures. its also used to cover bar tops etc,, you can buy it at Michaels craft stores.

i agree.....blues,blue grass, celtic...!!!!!!!!!!!

that's a loooong time ago, but I think it was a blu-gill on a popper from Grants Dept. stores. Before k-mart and wallymart........back in the 60's

Has anyone fished the Hague Ny area of lake george. I'm lookin for some smallmouth water this weekend..I'll be there for 4 days. I know the lake is good but I like streams and rivers...

All told right now I think it comes to 52, I need to organize some and cut it down to less...In the van alone I have 18 for fresh water right now.

Jimmy Hoffa.....

Freshwater..most members of the minnow family, carp,channel catfish, ,sm mouth & lg mouth bass,stripers,walleye,musky,pickeral,pike,american shad,sunfish,suckers,black & white crappie,yellow perch,fallfish,silver,chinook,steelhead (eastcoast & west coast),rainbow,brown,brook,salter brook,sea run brown,cutthroat,bull trout,green back cutt, laker,yellowstone cutt,blue back herring,hickory shad,rock bass,white perch,blue gills,pumkin seed,orange breast sunfish Saltwater.....tarpon,bonefish,rays,searobins,stargazers,fluke,flounder,striper,blues,weakfish,seatrout,ladyfish,shark,albies,bonitos,tuna,shad,spot,mullet

576 full moons give or take a few !! Been fly fishin for 420 or so full moons. about 1/3 seen on the beach..

I can remember when the bugger was a well kept secret here in Pa.....now its world known.........keep at it you need a few hundred more in all colors and sizes...

I like your dry there osd, as soon as I get down making a wind generator for my van, I'll be building a new dryer, hope ya don't mind if I borrow part of your's !!!

Almost forgot------MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SHOOTING BASKET !!!! and you should take along a intemediate and sink tip line, depending on what wt line I would have at least a 300 to 400 grain sinker. 99 % of the time you'll use the sinker, unless your throwin poppers..

Try some bob's bangers for the blues, also deceivers,surf candies, clousers, crease flies, jiggys---all of these flies in chart/white, pink/white, black, red/white, will work..an eel pattern at night after the kiddies are put to rest, at the inlet could produce stripers..

The Orvis kit is of good Quality, I recommend it for all my students just starting out.. Or buyan Anvil vise for 99.99 and an orvis clearwater tool kit for 29.99. Either setup is fine...

THE WING MATERIAL LOOKS TO BE mIDGE fLASH, AND THE TAILING LOOKS TO BE EITHER MICRO FIBBETS OR NYLON PAINT BRUSH, WHICH WILL FRAY LIKE THE ONE IN THE LOWER PART..

S.E. PA. ALL MY LIFE-------NATIVE AMERICAN, IRISH/WELSH...... NOW EMPORER OF THE UNIVERSE...

S.E. PA., bucks co. 2 hours in any direction for some of the best fly fishin in the US. 40 miles N. of phila. 10 min. to the Delaware river. home of trout, stripers,sm. mouth bass, and shad on the fly. 2 hours and I'm on the jersey beach's fishin. for stripers, blue fish, weakfish,flounder and albies what more could you want, Oh yea I forgot about steelhead !

MICKEY FINNS !!!

Aquatic Entomolagy by W.Patrick McCafferty Stoneflies by Richards,Swisher,Arbona Both of these along with the others will be a good library for insects.

I'll start before first light, take a break around mid day along the river somewhere then fish till after dark....

I started at 15 now 48, I helped out at the local fly shop by skinnin chickens and road kill. The owner then would teach me to tie..On weekends he would take me to the catskills where I got to tie with people like Lee Wulff, Art Flick, The Darbees, Dettes, It was an amazing experiance. Started commercial tyin at 16 for the shop..Did that for a few years until he closed up shop...been tyin ever since...

The Hellgramitte larva crawl to the shoreline where they under go a metamorphis under rocks along the stream. They emerge as adults along the banks. They are more vulnable at night when they are looking for a mate...If you see adults its a good time to fish shorlines, the bass will concentrate there loking for the larvae...A good dearhair pattern can be used in the evenings skittered along the surface to bring up bass ( I have had 10lb sripers chase these big patterns)... I tie a size 2 deerhair pattern for them(sorry no way to post pics yet)...

WORLD DOMINATION ! HA ! i'M EMPOROR OF THE EARTH, AND YOU HAVE TO DEFEAT ME FIRST !!! cograts....................