Winter or What to Do When you Get Tired of Tying Flies

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Broken Switch Part 2

Always enter a room quietly as not to disturb those that want to eat you for lunch. Maintain a low profile to avoid those who seek to annoy you. Art is trying to stay out of trouble and maintain a low stress level, everything in moderation and not making any waves. Platitudes, platitudes! I use to own a small pocket book full of them. I would whip it out to deal with just about every situation. My reputation grew as one who was quick on his feet always saying the right thing at the right time. As I previously posted my off switch broke and now I need to be conscience of what comes out of my mouth at all times. After all a closed mouth gathers no foot!

Winter

So much has been made over climate change and the political football it's become, that sometimes you can't believe what you read or hear. I read a book on global warming written in the perspective of the total existence of the earth that made a lot of sense. "Deep Future", worth at least a look at.

As for winter , yeah it will be here soon, but a warm and balmy mid October night makes me think global warming has already arrived.

Great Fly

We will be tying a variation of the all purpose Elk Wing Caddis, this time using coastal deer hair for the wing. You can mix and match body colors, legs, trailing shucks as you adapt for local conditions, sizes also vary.
Patchogue-Medford Library saturday mornings at 9:30am.

Fly Tying Frenzy

Don't feel the urgency of refilling my fly boxes full of new and crazy patterns this fall. Maybe a few of the tried and true, more wet flies in the traditional wing and patterns and streamers. In the past I have gone through stages of tying one type or another filling box after box only to never use them. Or even better yet, deciding on stream that they just don't look right. So this season I resolve to tie basic patterns that I use and tried and true classic ones. So no CDC emerger or spiders and god forbid foam ants and beetles I have a lifetime supply. I think I will try a few bass patterns and deer hair poppers and if I get daring some salt water patterns. Art's looking for a more well rounded approach to his available fishing.

The Off Switch on My Mouth is Broken

After many years parts do wear out!

My Last Day Fishing

The flies that caught fish on my last day were surprisingly very small: midge pupae #24, cinnamon ant#24 and a beetle #18. Three flies three fish.

Post Season Begins

With the year round season in the rest of our local waters the post season starts later next week with the fall stocking of selected waters. Makes from interesting fishing going from essential a private park to truly public waters complete with other fishermen or women who maybe be out to fill the grocery basket with some free food. Not to be overlooked is the famous fall run of striped bass, bluefish and false albacore. Plenty of stuff to cast a fly to. Today is also the first day of the winter sessions of our fly tying sessions at the Patchogue library. Time to restock those depleted fly boxes. The pattern of the day is the pheasant tail nymph. This is my favorite and most consistent producer this past season. So no reason to just sit around, plenty to do waiting for next year. Clean that gear, and get tying!