tie2fish wrote:I'm guessing Eric, that the amount of floating plant matter in the water you fish most often may play a role in your preference for fewer knots?

ABsolutely. Severity depends upon the year, but the d#mned things are always there.

Agree, John, on the TroutHunter mono tippet as the best I can find. I start my leaders with 12" of Maxima Chameleon nail knotted to the line, but I use a 10' TroutHunter Finesse leader as the base, tapered to 5X, and add a 4' tippet of TH 6X. But then I am fishing primarily dries size 16 and sm...

Here's another developed specifically for the Henry's Fork because at the time the drakes are hatching the air is also filled with gulls which discourage surface takes. http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r277/ewpeper/DSCN0162.jpg Dressing : Thread: Bennechi 12/0 olive Hook: #10 Dohiku 1XL light wire...

Here's a very bad pic showing three corks attached to the granite base for my Regal. Bodkin is stuck in right hand one. You cannot see the magnetized needle in the center one that I use for picking up hooks. Left hand one is for finished flies. That white thing in the foreground is the cap to a pill...

Wine corks are all over my tying area to hold bodkins, flies, hooks, anything I can stick in 'em. I use small pieces of adhesive-backed velcro applied to the cork and surface so I can vary the locations.

Eric

Marvelously balanced pattern Charlie. The proportions and color choices are so well done. These will serve you well in Yellowstone. They make me daydream of fishing the stretch below Biscuit Basin... Post the results of how your white miller soft hackles do. We were further up on the Firehole and h...

tie2fish wrote:Very nicely tied. Those look a lot like what Blue Ribbon Flies suggests for the Firehole. Rendezvous was there in June in 2014 and we killed with similar patterns.

Blue Ribbon wishes theirs were as nicely done as these!!

Eric

I also have whipped up a couple dozen CDC & Elk, size #16 to really put it to the test this year. Eric, Hans and others keep praising the CDC & Elk pattern so I have decided I have to give it a serious try this year. I'm with you, John, on putting the CDC & Elk to the test this year. He...

I was kinda stymied on thr "productive" question because I encounter rising fish most every day, and fishing blind on the Henry's Fork (because of highly mobile fish and few classically "productive" spots because flows are relatively consistent in speed, depth and structure throu...

Here's my #1 for 2015 . . . as well as 2014 and 2013 and maybe 2012. Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk. (Photo and fly by Hans) http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r277/ewpeper/cdcelk.jpg This fly has proved to be absolutely remarkable, taking some of the most difficult fish I've ever cast to and doing...