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My first how-to fly tying video.  With the fall season quickly approaching, here in the North East it’s time to gear up and make sure you have a healthy supply of bait fish imitations for the fall fattening season and slumpbusters are a great pattern for hungry fish like this rainbow.

Another great bunny bait fish [...]

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6/0 Olive thread
1270 Daiichi hooks size 10
CDC tan - tail
Olive yarn - body
CDC dark brown - undewing
Deer hair wing
Ginger Saddle hackle for the final collar
With the hatching of the giant sedge on Moody and golden stone flies all over the Wildcat and Ellis this fly is my bread and butter for above surface action this [...]

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For years now, I have fallen in love with the mystique and rich history of the
Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine. Being an angler, born and raised in this state all of my life, the draw has become too great for me to resist a trip to these fabled waters. I am finally [...]

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This minnow / baitfish evolved from the standard slump buster pattern. I avidly fished the slumps for almost an entire season two years ago until I figured out I needed a fly that was bigger & longer for the hungry brutes who reside in the coldwater streams of Mount Washington Valley, NH.
This was the [...]

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Too many years ago, when I could still see to tie on a size 24 dry, a fellow by the name of H.G. Tapley introduced me to the Cooper Bug. In those days we tied these Brook Trout killers with a red or a green floss body with deer body hair.
While talking with my [...]

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