I live in the Panhandle of North Idaho and I fish the Coeur D'Alene, Priest, Clearwater (for steelhead) and Pend Oreille rivers plus lots of small creeks and some of the lakes.
I don't have any pics since the digital camera broke, but I've been tying 17th century-style snelled, no-hackle winged flies lately just because they are so cool looking. I've been spending most of the winter tying up the usual suspects to fill out the boxes but I'm really getting into these old, old flies. Gonna try some out next week at Priest River.

RevGeo

These are for Maine smallies this coming season ...

Quill Minnow, Page, Round Lake

Here's a trolling streamer for Maine salmon and togue:

Red Viper

Criscip the wing on the Red Viper is made up from gray saddle, pintail flank, lady amherst, goose fibers and ruffed grouse! Lots on that one - it's fun! Alec

Houzehead that's a big hook - it's a #2 10XL.

The Red Viper Rules!

Harley,

where did you get your tackle bag?

Hare's ear soft hackles and a local stocked pond. Stocked rainbows are fun at times.

But apparently there's a shortage of hungarian partridge feathers, so tying soft hackles with "substitute" materials just doesn't work so hot.

[align=]My name is Romain. I was born in September 1958 and I have three children. I worked in an medical institution for elderly people. I help them in their daily lives.
I have been a flyfisherman since 1970. I live in the (French speaking) west of Switzerland (Jura). I live in 3 kilometers to a village wich is called Courfaivre or the first CDC fly was tying ... I fish mainly with artificial flies in CDC

The CDC Story
Like the famous Swiss army-knife or the healthy muesli the fluffy CDC-Fly is a genuine product of Switzerland as well. CDC is the abbreviation of "Cul de canard" which is French for "Duck's arse". Not right at the backside, but on the top of the duck's tail is the preen-gland, which oils and waterproofs the aquatic bird. Around that gland are approximately Maximilien Joset two dozen small feathers - the cdc's. They are fluffy and due to their natural impregnation absorb very little water. The cdc-feathers give a natural "live-effect" which imitates the wings of many mayflies and other insects perfectly. In contrast to the barbs of a cock-hackle the cdc-hackles have very small kinked and twisted barbules that trap air and increase floatability. It is unknown who created the first cdc-patterns.

But in 1920 the Swiss fly-tyers Maximilien Joset in Courfaivre and Charles Bickel in Valorbe tied the first small series of simple cdc-patterns to fool the smart and suspicious trout and graylings of the chalk-streams in the Swiss Jura area. The body of those flies were made of raffia or thread. The flies had no wings and just a cdc-hackle instead of a cock-hackle turned around the hook-shank in the classical way.[/align]

(Maximilien Joset pattern style) "le moustique jurassien"




French style (Devaux patterns)

For me it's been pink squirrels, scuds, rubber legged fox squirrel nymphs, assorted softackles and Klinkhammers for trout in Wisconsin and larger rubber legged fox squirrel nymphs and Chris Helm's panfish nymphs for panfish.

Been into wet flies lately, and furnishing my own materials ... some of the time, anyway. Here's a simple pattern, starling and purple, on a 12 wet fly hook.

Jazzing up the old muddler for some big trout in the High Sierra