Erie Steelhead

Recent trip to Erie for Steel!

Erie Steelhead Fly Fishing

Steelhead in Erie:


A recent trip to Erie resulted in this fine fish

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



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

Fly Tying Workstation

I bought a fly tying kit from LL Bean but before starting to tie my first flie I thought I needed a decent work station.

Build mostly from baltic birch plywood and cherry for the sliding trays, it fits nicely under my keyboard.
There's also plenty of room for a 2nd drawer to contain the mess or additional fly tying supplies.

Plenty of room for the materials that were included with the kit not to mention what additional items that I've purchased:

The sliding tray near the front collects cuttoffs from the fly tying process:

And it removes for easy disposal:

New Blog

Well, I guess after all these years it's time to start my own blog!

I'll use this as a place to share my interests (what steals my time away from my wonderfull wife)


Since I happen to have pictures of my FJ Cruiser in OBX I'll start there...

... click on the FJ cruiser link above