glitterati

This chenille is a bit thicker than some of the other stuff I've been working with lately. I'd like to keep the bead on the fly as I like to have a little weight to get this fly down in the water column. The chenille is too thick to thread through the bead hole, so I tied it on the hook as you would a traditional SJW. I don't prefer this manner because the thread is more exposed and is potentially prone to tearing, enabling the chenille to come free of the hook. I tried a wire bodies version, but it didn't come out looking right. I'll need to monkey around with this pattern a bit, perhaps I 'll need to use a larger holed bead on this pattern.


Money. Not sure what much else I can do to improve on this caddis pattern. Let's just hope the fish think it's bling too.

Seasonal Scores, Round II

More scores courtesy of Santa's Little Helper. There's something about the Holiday Season that brings obscure craft store materials to the forefront, that are otherwise lurking in the wings during the rest of the year, collecting dust. Intriguing caches of tinsel, mylar and cellophane sparkle the eye, leaving a perplexed fly tyer scratching his head wondering where this stuff's been all his life. Bewildered, the tyer grabs everything flashy and throws it in the cart, making the mad dash past the crotchety old bags browsing over those gaudy Santa gnomes and Dicken's Village miniatures, straight to the checkout aisle. "Those items aren't on sale", are the first words nagging out of the homely clerk's mouth, before you even have a chance to pull your items out of the cart. "I don't care", you mutter back, as you swipe your card, grab your receipt, and get the hell out of that holiday zoo.


Lametta strands, $0.99. Also known as crimped mylar. The front side is pearl, the back is white. The stuff will make a bitchin' looking body on a soft hackle, wingcases, or a gnarly ass wing on a streamer. I'm thinking muskie. I'd fish it to a wooly bully bull trout, but seeing as how I live over a thousand miles from bull country, I'll settle for an esocid instead.



6mm wireless glitter chenille, $1.99. Three different colors at 30 feet each. This stuff is the shiznit. I've got grandiose visions of a Hollywood version of a San Juan Worm, and a caddis pupa pattern. I need to see if this stuff comes in other colors.

Hard not to get in the Christmas spirit when you find such cool shit at the craft store.

Happy Thanksgiving

Time for the roughfisher to throw around some thank yous:

I give thanks for the little roughfishers,
and the fact that there is even a Mrs. Roughfisher.
Thank you for switch rods, glimmer flash chenille, tungsten, and chemically sharpened hooks.
Thank you Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy, Mickey, Keith, Brent and Bruce for your wonderful magic on stage and in my ears.
Thank you Brown Ale; Thank you IPA.
Thanks for cleavage, tight shirts, and cold breezes.
Thank you bacon.
Thanks to my 5 readers.

Happy Thanksgiving!