Lime Trude Step By Step Fly Tying Tutorial

Lime Trude The lime trude is a classic attractor pattern that doesn't really imitate and particular stage or insect, but rather just looking like something that fish can't help but to sample.  It incorporates peacock herl, a proven fish catching material, a bright 'hot spot', and a highly visible wing.  It's an excellent choice for pocket water fishing and wild trout.  It's also a pattern that is fairly beginner friendly, allowing for some imperfections in proportion and alignment.  Dry flies tend to be among the trickier flies to proportion exactly right, and even this one won't allow for serious errors, but the fly doesn't...

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Work in Progress

Over the past few nights, I've been experimenting with a klinkhamer variant to imitate a caddis emerger.  So far, this is what I've got.  Feel free to tell me what you think of it, or what I might add, remove, or change to make it better: Para-caddis Hook: Partridge 15BNX, size 18 Thread: Sheer 14/0, gold Body: Spirit River Spun Yarn Wing: Elk Hackle: Med-dark gin...

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Meet Taka!

I decided to start off the new year with a post to introduce you all to my chocolate lab, Taka.  He's about a year and a half old and still very much a puppy at heart (though at about 90 lbs, he's not a puppy in body!).  These are also the first pictures to come from my newest piece of photography kit, the AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens from Nikon.  It's a telephoto zoom that will hopefully allow me to get some nice shots of birds and other creatures once the forests thaw this spring.  Until then, Taka here doesn't mind being a model. As...

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