Sparse Grey Matter

BY those standards this final Opening Day looks to be quite balmy: high somewhere in the thirties (seeing everything between 31 and 37 so far) and 2.1" of snow. I have not partaken of the annual ritual and I wanted to this last chance but I don't know. Rivers are not really wadable and more rain is ...

At least as well a memory serves the slight olivish tinted yellow were size 16 flies and appeared right along with the pale yellow/pale sulfur orange size 16's. One evening they were one color at least predominantly and another evening they would be the other color. The trout were often color specif...

Surely you don't mean "shades: alone? Now patterns, well yes thirty sounds about right once sizes are covered, CDC duns, comparaduns, parachutes, cripples. I find color very important but I limit sulfurs to a couple yellows, a blend of yellow and sulfur orange, and yellow with a faint olivish tint (...

I would suggest a search to find contact info for the manufacturer. Some of these batteries can explode if not properly charged. Different types require different charging times too. Chargers vary a lot, though red light for charge and green light for complete seem more common to me. Flashing red so...

Missed that Zoom-in as a friend from the limestone country called and we talked for a couple of hours. Sounds like you still have a lot of snowpack on your side of the mountains. I took a drive out to Roscoe and back today and saw that a lot has melted away along Route 17, though of course the open ...

Mine arrived in Monday's mail too! Barred Rusty Dun & Barred Ginger. I love his barred colors!

Never could stand junk on my vise. My tying table topper has a light background so I can see easily. I did break down and order one of Regal's material springs to fit my vise head so I won't always be hanging my bobbin behind the handle when I want to tie off a parachute. Ten dollars for a little sp...

A very nice blog Brk Trt. Good that you are fishing. Our water is mainly hard in the Catskills, with no warmups at all this winter.

I never met Don, but his fly tying made an impact on my own tying and fishing. Twenty years ago I tried to fish a few days each season with Pat Schuler, one of the best guides ever on the Upper Delaware system, and Don tied some flies for Pat. We had great days fishing the Green Drake hatch and Don'...

I have tied some of that style as well, with a dark brown dubbing blend of squirrel and Antron. Your's looks to have a slight claret cast to it Tom, or id that a trick of the lighting? Great flies for fishing the many levels of a hatch. I have tied CDC emergers for thirty years like this one, to get...