Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Erie Steelhead in February



My visit to Erie tribs the other day resulted in a remarkable steelhead. This boy pushed 13 pounds!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Brew Day

I've been making a lot of beer lately, here are some photos from a recent session:


Ingredients and supplies ready to go

Mash / lautering setup


Steve watching on a batch ready to be bottled



The turkey fryer boiling setup



The lautering process



Fresh wort filling the brew pot




A recent batch of Belgium Ale fresh from the keg



Me stirring the mash



Syphoning off into the bottling bucket



An original name



Syphoning setup

Monday, February 28, 2011

More Flies!

A few more flies that I've recently tied:

The BlueWing Olive (Tied from the LL Bean Blue Wing Olive material kit -made by Spirit River)





Foam Beatle


Light Foam Beatle


                                       Collection of Blue Wing Olives and Dry Adams



Collection of Dry Flies 



Streamers and Nymphs




Sunday, January 30, 2011

First Flies

Well, here are some of my very first attempts at tying flies:

The Dry Adams


Fur Ant


Black Wooley Bugger


Caddis Larvae



CDC Caddis


Spotted Egg


Inchworm


Emerging Larvae


Goof Off

Whacky Wally

Mystery Fly


Knatt


Olive Wooley Bugger


Prince Nymph


Salmon Egg


San Juan Worm

Stone Fly


Stretch Tubbing Scud