DubTV: Micro Egg Video Tutorial

Put this together really quick last night because I've had a few people ask how to tie them so small. Here's a quick video on tying size 18 eggs. I slaughtered the bows on these this morning. (More on that later..)

Brook trout are beautiful and all, but...

You can't rule out little sunfish like this that are full blaze in their fall coloring. He wasn't big, but I took a few seconds to really admire him. Gorgeous fish.

I realized today that I usually only hit the local stream just out of convenience when I don't have time to make the 45 minute drive to water cold enough to hold trout year round. That made me think about how much I'm going to miss having a fun little fishery that's less than 2 minutes away.

The leaves are starting to drop and the fish are slowing down. Yeah, I caught a few small panfish and a dink largemouth this evening, but the big ones are down deep and not wanting to budge. Seeing all the plant life starting to die off is depressing. On the upside, at least the stretch that runs behind my house is one of the only places in my county that's getting a big fall trout stocking this year. The good news is that barely anyone fishes it in the fall and the fish tend to not spread out as much as they do in the spring. That will get me through from October-January, and then the kids will be playing ice hockey on it until March.

Farewell summer.

Obiwan's jedi spey casting skills

I was checking my google alerts last night and I came across this article about a new movie called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. We all know Obiwan Kenobi, but if you're unfamiliar with Emily Blunt, she looks a little something like this.



Not too shabby. Anyway, it's a Hollywood, Baliwood, London, Lolliwood film written by the guy who did Slumdog Millionare. That was a good movie, but I don't think it will be anywhere close to being true to our sport as, say, A River Runs Through it. Honestly, it's about a sheikh who wants to introduce Salmon to the Yemen River. From the sound of it, I'd probably be more comfortable sitting through Divine Yaya Secrets of the Traveling Pants Sisterhood with my wife. (Or whatever the hell that movie is called)

After reading some poor reviews of the film after it's recent premiere, I've came up with some thoughts on what they could have done differently.

First off. You have a f*cking jedi in your cast. Go with it. The double handed grip on a jedi sword equates to Spey Casting. I could just imagine two jedis battling it out with two 14 foot spey rods chucking tunghead sex dungeon streamers at each other in a fight to the death.


Next up, Emily Blunt. Actually, no. Don't change that. Just have her in every scene, wearing this. It would be much more attractive than a flannel and hip waders.


Finally, we all know sure as sh*t who should be playing the sheikh.




This post was powered by Adobe Photoshop, and Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale. (probably a little too much of it)

EDIT! I found a Youtube clip, and it's even worse than I thought it would be.

As soon as I get home

This is happening.

Some sweet browns on midges

Water Under The Midge from Findependent Film on Vimeo.

We've had so much flooding in the past few days. It actually took me 3 hours to get to work today. After watching this on Vimeo, I'm dying for the water levels to stabilize. These are some beautiful browns. Plus, I have nothing but love for people who decide that their fly fishing vid should have some Beastie Boys in the background.

Here comes the spawn

Well, it's almost spawning season again. The browns (and some freaky rainbows in the state of PA) are getting full of eggs and getting ready to do the deed. I don't condone chasing fish on spawning beds at all. I think you should leave them alone. That being said, as soon as the fish are spawned out, you have two months of amazing fishing with egg patterns.

I've shared my success on egg patterns on here quite a few times and I think the trick to success is smaller eggs. Way too often I see someone throwing a size 8 or 10 egg at the smaller trout in the streams around here, with limited success. I really think those are more suited for Steelhead and monster lake run trout. Drop that egg down to an 18 or 20 and you have a better representation of the actual food the fish are feeding on, and you'll have constant action.


I'm currently knocking out an order of eggs for a fly shop, and for two personal orders from people I know. If anyone is interested in purchasing some, please drop me a line via email or in the comments section with your contact information. Prices are $15 per dozen shipped, or two dozen for $25. That's much cheaper than you'll find in a fly shop! All are tied on either Orvis or Tiemco hooks, using Mcfly Foam.

Sizes 18-20
Colors:
White
Pink
Cherise (dark pink/muave)
Oregon Cheese
Chartreuse
Cream
Peach
White
Red
Baby Blue

You can mix and match colors/sizes.





In other news, I've been wanting to get the picture of Michael's first trout blown up to hang in my tying room. I was actually looking at some of the places that turn your picture into a canvas, and as luck would have it, I was approached by Brendan at EasyCanvasPrints.com with a great offer for getting a canvas done. I ordered it yesterday and I was pretty amazed at how easy it was to set up the whole thing. I uploaded the pic and was done and checked out in two minutes. I chose an 8x10. The true test will be the fact that the pic I uploaded was taken on the iphone. I'll post the final product once it arrives, but here's the original photo. My god I had fun that day :)

Random Web Goodness

I really wanted to get out and fish today, but I wound up driving all the way from the Jersey shore to South Philly last night to meet up with some old friends. Long story short, I wound up driving back to the shore at 7am this morning with a pounding headache and not a wink of sleep. I did get in a few hours in a nap, but I'm still too wiped out to chase some small fish.

Since fishing was out of the question, I was pretty much a vegetable in front of the laptop, stealing some neighbor's unprotected WIFI. I spent a good amount of time browsing various fishing blogs, posts, sites, etc. Here's the best of the best from what I've read today.

First up is the John Gierach web invasion. From what I've heard, this guy has historically been pretty elusive as far as interviews and video footage goes, but all of a sudden there's a ton of stuff out there on him. If you didn't catch Tom Chandler's interview with Gierach the other day on Trout Underground, you need to get over there. I then came across a post on Orvis News mentioning Tom's post, but they also had a cool short on Gierach (minus the awful audio editing).


I also stumbled upon Pat Cohen's blog titled "Superfly". I watched this guy at Somerset earlier this year tying these amazing spun hair bluegill patterns. He's got a ton of pattern photos on his site, and it's definitely worth a read.

Image courtesy of gotbronze.blogspot.com

Up next, we have Up The Poudre. Sanders has been sending me traffic and commenting on my posts, and I feel bad about not returning the favor (I really gotta update that blog roll). I finally took the time to really read his blog today, and it's great. The writing is phenomenal, and every post tells a story. Plus, his logo kicks ass.

Image Courtesy of upthepoudre.com

I'd post more, but I'm about to pass out. Time to finish the beer and hit the sack. Tomorrow holds the challenge of driving home in labor day traffic, unpacking, and getting the lawn mowed. Plus, I have a feeling there's a few smallies that need some sore lips now that the water flows are back to normal. Happy Labor Day.

Blogging from the shore post #4 always carry a wading staff edition

I decided to hike out to the bay over the sod banks at high tide because I saw fish blitzing. I was totally fine for the first 30 yards and then I took a step and didn't feel ground under me. Yep. I went chest deep. Shoutout to Orvis for making their slingbag pockets water resistant or I wouldn't have had an iPhone to post this from. I'm going to carry a wading stick from now on.

It was worth it though. I had constant action on small stripers and blues for about 45 min on white buggers and small gurglers.



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Cutthroat with two mouths!

Via TDN.com

Pretty crazy.

Blogging from the shore part 2

It's just about midnight. I'm standing on a dock on the bay shooting an 8 weight with a minnow pattern, constantly getting my line chewed off by small snapper bluefish. Drunk guy and his wife walk out on the dock. He says to his wife "oh yeah, fly fishing! I used to do that all the time before we were married." He then walks up to me and says "now the whole point of this is to just use a hook and snag the fish when you throw out your line. I like bait fishing, it's more sporting." I just said "yep, I guess so.". I then said "what kind of fly rod did you used to use?". He said "oh, um.... I had a Berkley size 13 stiff. Best rod ever made. Look it up. "

Party on, drunk guy.

It all started with a breakfast beer

The beer



The bait



The results

I stopped counting at 15 (Thanks Irene!)

Had three hours to fish late this afternoon. Flows were up from hurricane runoff, water was only slightly discolored, and fish were ACTIVE. One of the best days I had this year, and there weren't even any hatches coming off. I caught bows, browns, and brookies. Looped San Juan worm in pink was the big winner on the brookies, while the bows and browns smashed eggs, nymphs, and streamers.

I stopped counting at 15 fish around the two hour mark, but I know I left with over 20 to hand, all released. I'd say about 60% were stocked, but I'm not complaining. :)

I want to say I wish all days on the water were like this, but on second thought, I think I would miss the challenge of tough fish.

Heres some shots of beauties from all three species.