September 6, 2010

Audi 5000 G

I'm off to the IFTD show in Denver.

IFTD
While I'm out kicking ass on the DSP with Gracie and the boys and tossing back some High Gravity, you'll have to keep yourselves amused for the week with some of the classics from the archives. There'll be plenty of good shit to go around when I get back. I promise.

September 5, 2010

Chaos

chaos
Trying to whittle down over a thousand flies into two boxes is always a chore. I'm down to about five hundred. Wish me luck.

A foolish heart is worse


A foolish heart will call on you,
To toss your dreams away,
Then turn around and blame you,
For the way you went astray,
A foolish heart will cost you sleep,
And often make you curse,
A selfish heart is trouble,
But a foolish heart is worse.

I'm just going through the motions of living..

September 3, 2010

Browntown

Hard to believe it's September already. The weeks have flown by, countless days wasted working instead of being spent out on the river. Morning lows are finally threatening to dip into the thirties. Crimson hues are beginning to encompass the fringes of those saccharin laden maples, contrasting against the golden yellow school buses studiously making their way through the neighborhood route. While fall marks the return to school for most children, September also means that the International Fly Tackle Dealer (IFTD) Show is just around the corner.

Hurricane High Gravity
This year the roughfisher is making the voyage west to Denver to make the retailer show. That means a taco truck full of sick carnitas burritos, afternoons on the Dirty South Platte, and evenings chugging down some High Gravity a mile high. Thanks to MG the roughfisher has a couch to crash on and a throne to leave his mark behind. Sure, we will hit the show, make a few bizness transactions, and crash the annual after show parties like the Drake Flyfishing Video Awards. We'll be privy to sneak peaks at new products for 2011, maybe even post a few gear pics or reviews; I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time. I only wonder if Anheuser-Busch will be there so I can get sponsored by High Gravity...

We will be on the prowl. Our posse runs deep; flanked with the Primal Fly crew Denver is about to get the taste slapped out of its mouth. Time to go browntown and wreck some shit.

September 2, 2010

The New Bohemians

A twist to the czech nymph, in classic roughfisher style.

czecher nymphs
Bohemian nymph
Hook: Extra Strong Curved Size 8, barbless
Thread: 6/0 UNI, brown
Underbody: 0.20" Lead wire wrapped around thorax
Case: 1/4" strip latex, clear
Body: Brownstain or Olivine dub
Rib: Gold Ultra Wire, Brassie
Thorax: Glimmer Flash Chenille, Peacock or other contrasting color
Head: tapered thread

Note: the carapace is formed by pulling the latex strip back over body after it is dubbed. Tie in the Glimmer flash chenille around thorax area, pulling the latex forward over the chenille to the head and tie off. Color with permanent brown marker.