Another great day to hit the water for the New Year. Fishing was a little tough this morning. I only managed to land one fish on a Rootbeer Midge and that was after I had tried nearly everything in my fly box. When I got to the Beaver Tailwaters around 9:30am, I found they had …
Beaver Tailwaters Dec 26th
Great morning fishing!!!! Great morning fishing the Beaver Tailwaters. Morning started out pretty cold, then the sun came out and it was beautiful. Almost got warm enough to take off my jacket. Then the wind picked up and the cloud cover came back and the temp dropped. Didn't get real cold, but it did a …
Gettin’ Ready
Tying up some new flies using Daiichi 1130 size 18 hooks. This is to replace the flies I tied using Mustard and Saber brand hooks that kept bending. You can really tell the Daiichi is a much firmer hook in the vice. With the other hooks there was a lot of movement as I applied …
Beaver Tailwater Dec 21
Another nice morning fishing the Beaver Tailwaters. Conditions were same as yesterday, low 40's, overcast, but with a very occasional wind. The wind would pick up for a few minutes every once in awhile and man did it get cold for those short period of times. I tried fishing the stretch up from the Betrand boat …
Beaver Tailwaters Dec 20th
Nice morning fishing the Beaver Tailwaters. Temp was in the low 40's, but felt very comfortable as there wasn't any wind. Overcast all morning with a misting fog for the first hour. Fish were a little finicky this morning, didn't really seem to key on anything to strong. Black, Purple and Olive Zebra Midges did fairly …
Beaver Tailwaters – Dec 13, 2014
Another great December morning to fish. The weather was nice this morning with temperatures in the very comfortable mid 50's with no wind and overcast. I started off with the morning with the trusty ole black zebra midge and started catching almost immediately. After several netted fish, I switched to the copper midge and rusty midge and did pretty …
Ruby Zebra Midge
Here's one version of the Ruby Zebra Midge. Has the Firefly red under body, with a single strand of black embroidery floss over it on size 16 hook.
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