And a few more for spring....

Spring flies are usually what it takes to get me away from deerhair and it seems to be working... I can't wait until April to give these a swing! The next thing I need to pickup is a dark green cape so I can tie some actual deep green beauties :)

 

 

 

 

Blackville or Bust, tomorrow AM!! Spring fishing, here we come!

Just packing, and packing and packing and packing... lugging gear sucks! It'll all be worth it on Monday AM when we're swinging flies in the Miramichi river!

The water is on the rise and it'll likely be dirty and full of grass and debris... lots of taking stuff off your hook between swings but at least we'll be fishing =)

This is one pile of gear of at least six.....but this is the most important one!

A few last minute flies, I'm even going to try a simple tube smelt this time around. If I can have some success on this type of fly I plan to tie more for our next trip ... the hook on a tube fly is much smaller than the traditional spring streamer so it will be a lot more fish friendly. I'll be sure to report how it works out.

A marabou and a bunny strip... these are big flies, meant for trolling:

Just a quick post for now, stay tuned over the next few days as I'll be posting updates of our luck, good bad or otherwise =)

Tight lines and be safe!

Going to need some more black bunny strips soon...

The trouble with bunny strip flies is once you start tying them it's tough to stop...

 

Kelt just love them!

Another Bunny Strip streamer...

This one was shown to me by Mark Willigar on his site http://nsflyguy.ca/smf

This was one of the top producers at the Den in April and May for black salmon.

Changing gears for a bit -- Pete's Bog Monster (spring salmon)

Been tying with nothing but deerhair for a spell and It was time to change up for a bit:

We had incredible luck last year with this pattern - it was shown to me by the master of spring flies, Pete! Thanks again, dude!

This one is bound for Billy's fly box along with a couple more.

The truck is packed and we're headed to the 'Chi in the AM!

Dad and I just finished packing the truck and I might tie a couple more flies before hitting the hay. Here's a few from the last week or so:

Nick & Ethan are quite excited for a weekend of boy stuff - fishin', boatin', and shootin' BB guns! It's going to be a great weekend! 

Heading to the 'Chi on Friday with the young lads...

Hopefully we can find a few trout for Ethan and Nick - Not sure if there'll still be a few kelts around but we'll see. I've been tying up a few flies for trolling, got to make sure I have enough ammo for the young fellas =)

Here's a coyote GE variant -- quick and easy to tie:

A bunny strip thing - I like orange a lot:

And the rest of the gang --- definitely going to tie a bunch more canary marabous, I hate tying them but they are so damned effective...

A few more freestyle bunny strips.

A little bird just told me the fishing is great up river.... too bad I won't be going up until next weekend! I guess the only thing to do is tie some more flies:

'Black Ghost' Bunny Strip fly.

Getting a few flies tied up for next weekend - here's a Black Ghost:

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

This seems like a great place to keep a secret pattern =P

Shhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

I've been cursed with tying these damned bunny strips!

But they're so cuddly! =)

Zonker strips.....

.....I think I'm going to like tying and fishing with them! I picked up a few colours today - here's my first attempt at a zonker muddler. This is on a Daiichi 2271 size 1 and i'm thinking it will likley appeal to kelted Atlantics =)

Oh yeah, the only reason I'm using that horrible bobbin is that I have 6/0 thread in it -- the bobbin  could be made of jagged rocks with 6/0 so any piece of junk bobbin will do!