Bugbinder
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Hi, Folks! How's Everybody? I was conceived in an apartment over an Italian restaurant in Upper Darby 83 years ago, but that's my only and closest association with Pennsylvania. I have been a Wisconsin Badger since 1971, member of Southeast Wisconsin TU until arthritic knees took me off the water, and have taught dozens of kids, teens ("apprentice grown-ups") and adults fly-fishing and fly tying. Arthritis has so far spared my hands, so I still tie.
I am also an aspiring author, and just finished a 63,000 -word novel, "MAMBA - VENGEANCE AND LIBERATION", that traces the Black American experience through the four stages from 1807 to 2009: Slavery, Resistance, Liberation and Peerage. Now I am taking a sabbatical and returning to my vise to start a Spring Creek Selection" series of flies. My tying protocol follows how I fished unless a visible hatch was on.
Starting at the bottom of the water column, I tied on, and now tie, a Zebra midge nymph. Had my only 20 - fish day on that puppy on a trib of the West Fork of the Kickapoo, my home water. I then go to soft-hackle emergers, my friend Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk caddis cripple, and then to a traditional EHC. The caddis is the more prominent hatch here. We do, of course, also have mayflies and stoneflies in abundance, but they are more chronologically limited. My boxes will also have Little Black Stones, BWO, March Browns, PMD's, Adams for the "Whathehellwasthat?" hatch, Yellow Sallies and the Hex. Terries are the traditional cricket, hopper, ant and beetle quartet, and for the night-fishing bullriders, the deerhair Miss Mousey, for the field mice that inhabit our streamside cow-pastures and occasionally wander too close to the bank, where the grass hangs over the deadly water, and fall in. Cue the theme music from "Jaws". As I know you have experienced on your small spring creeks, the size of the water has nothing to do with the size of a predator Brown out hunting a meal. Poor Miss Mousey.
I finish this with a question re flytying: will SCOTUS' recent scrapping of the tariff's cause a reduction of the price of Japanese steel and thus a reduction in the price of hooks made therefrom? Tight lines, all.
I am also an aspiring author, and just finished a 63,000 -word novel, "MAMBA - VENGEANCE AND LIBERATION", that traces the Black American experience through the four stages from 1807 to 2009: Slavery, Resistance, Liberation and Peerage. Now I am taking a sabbatical and returning to my vise to start a Spring Creek Selection" series of flies. My tying protocol follows how I fished unless a visible hatch was on.
Starting at the bottom of the water column, I tied on, and now tie, a Zebra midge nymph. Had my only 20 - fish day on that puppy on a trib of the West Fork of the Kickapoo, my home water. I then go to soft-hackle emergers, my friend Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk caddis cripple, and then to a traditional EHC. The caddis is the more prominent hatch here. We do, of course, also have mayflies and stoneflies in abundance, but they are more chronologically limited. My boxes will also have Little Black Stones, BWO, March Browns, PMD's, Adams for the "Whathehellwasthat?" hatch, Yellow Sallies and the Hex. Terries are the traditional cricket, hopper, ant and beetle quartet, and for the night-fishing bullriders, the deerhair Miss Mousey, for the field mice that inhabit our streamside cow-pastures and occasionally wander too close to the bank, where the grass hangs over the deadly water, and fall in. Cue the theme music from "Jaws". As I know you have experienced on your small spring creeks, the size of the water has nothing to do with the size of a predator Brown out hunting a meal. Poor Miss Mousey.
I finish this with a question re flytying: will SCOTUS' recent scrapping of the tariff's cause a reduction of the price of Japanese steel and thus a reduction in the price of hooks made therefrom? Tight lines, all.
