Session hits the salt.

Golden Stones, Royal Coachman wets, Purple and Starling, Red and Starling, RS2s, and of course Bulldog's Swimming BWO. Oh--and a variety of midges of course.

Pogo nymphs

I've been fooling around with some salty patterns; dreaming a bit about bonefish and reds. I've yet to fly fish for ANYTHING in the salt, and it's getting harder and harder to wait.





Who knows if these would work or not. I've already thought of a few modifications.

Been going for "Gartside-esque" ties recently - a little marabou, a little saddle hackle and a lot of movement in the water!



Thinking LMB and maybe some very hungry, pissed off nocturnal Brownie!

basically just filled up my winter steelhead box....mostly had to replace the ultra-simple pink bugger thing on the bottom. That's probably what I fish the most of, second would be a couple of those leeches on the top. most often it's pink, occasionally when I'm bored with pink, I'll throw on one of the black leeches when swinging, but because I've gravitated more towards dead drifting flies, it's still usually the flies on the bottom, no split, just have them tied in a variety of weighted eyes. Of course, no box would be complete without at least a couple of dries. While I've never hooked a winter steelhead on a dry, my buddy who I fish with the most, has actually hooked one super aggressive buck on a dead drifted dry (note the Oct. Caddis in addition to the pink/white gurglers)...a few egg patterns that I'll use in ultra low water conditions, but I tend to like to fish something that will swing better at the end of a drift, hence the bugger-ish flies.

Cheers

Tying some nymphs on #24 hooks which is way smaller than I've used before. Hopefullly I will have fun and not hurt myself.

What's the body material for the "pink bugger thing" flies? For the landlocked, I'm confident those would be decent crappie, walleye, and white-bass flies.

articulated flies

any good ideas on the best way to get eyes to stick on saltwater patterns? I used locktite superglue and they came off within about 15 minutes of fishing them.

Thanks, that's what I'd normally do, but I'm trying to just get the eyes to stick on without having a full epoxy head. (those eyes also were "stick-on" eyes, but I figured it would need more than just that).

Salmon Flies!
Here's my "Indian Paintbrush" This is one killing pattern.