09-29-2009, 03:56 PM
Thanks for all the info. Pat - good stuff!
All of those patterns look like they would be very much at home in any Steelheader's fly box. I used to tie a lot of Steelhead flies, and I'm thinking maybe I should cook up a selection from your arsenal for myself. Thanks for sharing.
Simple "attraction" is such a powerful component that is all too often overlooked by puristic hatch matchers waving the long rods. I have always appreciated Gary Lafontiane's significant contributions in that area. He was an intelligent/creative guy like yourself that approached his fly fishing in much the same way you do your brand of fishing. No small wonder why you have both been so successful at it.
Yeah, I would like to meet up with you for some trout, wallie, barracuda, whatever. I've totally been shooting from the hip on my fishing outings lately. At work, we re-submit today with a modified bid for that Colorado project I had mentioned earlier. Award is supposed to happen next Monday and then I'll have a better idea of what I'll be doing for the rest of the year.
In the mean time, weather permitting I am hoping to get out Friday afternoon. I realize that it will be less than ideal condions, but it's the best I can do this week. And as they say, "A bad day fishing. . . ." Sometimes I learn more from a bad day than a good day, or at least that's what I tell myself on a bad day. [laugh]
I'll keep in touch.
Jesse
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All of those patterns look like they would be very much at home in any Steelheader's fly box. I used to tie a lot of Steelhead flies, and I'm thinking maybe I should cook up a selection from your arsenal for myself. Thanks for sharing.
Simple "attraction" is such a powerful component that is all too often overlooked by puristic hatch matchers waving the long rods. I have always appreciated Gary Lafontiane's significant contributions in that area. He was an intelligent/creative guy like yourself that approached his fly fishing in much the same way you do your brand of fishing. No small wonder why you have both been so successful at it.
Yeah, I would like to meet up with you for some trout, wallie, barracuda, whatever. I've totally been shooting from the hip on my fishing outings lately. At work, we re-submit today with a modified bid for that Colorado project I had mentioned earlier. Award is supposed to happen next Monday and then I'll have a better idea of what I'll be doing for the rest of the year.
In the mean time, weather permitting I am hoping to get out Friday afternoon. I realize that it will be less than ideal condions, but it's the best I can do this week. And as they say, "A bad day fishing. . . ." Sometimes I learn more from a bad day than a good day, or at least that's what I tell myself on a bad day. [laugh]
I'll keep in touch.
Jesse
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