Sea Run Cutties

Well, its that time of year again, time to capitalize on the great sea run fishing
In total today i landed 4 fish, all in about the 1 pound range, and they were scrapy little fish.
The fish were taken all on the incoming tide, on a size 6 epoxy minnow substituting olive marabou for the mallard. Right when slack tide hit, the bite was off, and unfortunately i didn't get to fish the flood

Here's a few pics and a vid of today's outing The view Nice silver cutthroat

And a short shaky video clip of one of them

Tight lines
-tyler-

My first build

hey folks,
here's my first build, built on a Beulah 8'6" 4wt guide series blank, and with the theme being gold.
Rod building is definitely gunna feed my fly fishing addiction, plus its more rods for me :P
here's the pics
Hope you all like, i just casted it in my back yard and boy do i
-tyler-

Rough start

Well, today was one of those days that basically no matter what i did, i did it wrong. I did catch fish but it took me a solid hour before i even got my fly on the water. First off, some how my line pulled its self through the frame causing a giant loop that i couldn't get back in, so i had to take the spool off. Sounds easy eh? well not when your reel decides not cooperate. I ended up resorting to my teeth to bite on the lever hard enough that it would release, and just wait that's not it. As i pull off the spool alot of my line falls of the spool( and no not from the end of it, just in giant loops). So i start to try and untangle this godzilla rats nest, and after about 15 minutes i was about ready to throw that reel over the side of the boat. but i restrained myself from that and just decided to switch reels and use my 8wt full sink line on my 6wt( boy casting was sure interesting). After the rod was re threaded it was about an hour after we launched. But even after that i managed to catch fish, 5 to be exact, nothing huge, but a fish is a fish. So at the end of the day i have to say it was definitely more an exercise in patience than a good fishing session.
As we speak that reel sits in my basement, in a giant mess, and i can honestly say i don't plan on untangling it any time soon. Looks like ill be sticking to the floating line for the next while.

To come: The picture's of my soon to be completed fly rod. It is the first fly rod i've built and is on a beulah 8' 6'' 4wt guide series rod
tight lines
-tyler-

Cutthroat Flats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh46VvkzSHs

So FINALLY i got into some good fishing, i've had minimal success so far this year but it looks like the fishings starting to heat up
this video is of a place i like to call the flats, that is in a lake that shall remain nameless for the sake of its fishy inhabitants
For some strange reason, no matter what we threw at them, whether it the deadly khartoum killer, or a small intruder, they would only take an olive wolly bugger, but not any plain old bugger, these ones were tied with a orangy-olive tail, leach yarn body, and a pretty heavily hackled body of olive grizzly hackle( not quite dry fly hackle, but pretty dam close), that gave it quite the silhouette
I hope you all enjoy this video, it shows my friend cory catching his first fish on the fly
sorry in advance for the shakiness of hand cause we didnt have the tripod with us
tight lines until next time
-tyler-

Some Recent ties

I have only been able to get out fishing a little lately, but with some unfavorable conditions have gotten skunked, so i thought i'd compensate with some recent ties, and believe me there is more to come<
purple egg sucking leach
hook: salmon style hook with up turned eye
underbody: .20mm lead wire
tail: purple maribou
lateral line: purple flashabou
body: black crystal chenile
hackle: purple saddle
head: pink chenile
thread: pink or black 6/0 or 8/0

virginia wulff
hook: dry fly size 8 to 16
wing: white calf tail
thread: black 8/0
tail: moose mane
body: 3 strands of peacock herl, green floss, and then more peacock herl
hackle: brown dry fly hackle

Here are a few intruders




and heres a Czech nymph pattern


hook: partridge size 12 scud
shell back: red flash back
rib: fine gold wire
body: red dubbing with sparkle with squirell fur at the head

hope those give you a few flies for you to add to your fly boxes, and check back soon because i just got a video camera, lots of videos to come
-tyler-

Khartoum killer

Welcome to Fly fish Powell River
I thought i would start out this blog with a local pattern that is just killer.
Recipe
Hook: streamer 3x long size 2-10
Thread: Black 6/0 or 8/0 uni thread
Tail: Purple Kyrstal flash
Weight: lead wire .20 mm
Rib: Silver wire(medium or fine)
Body: Black Sparkle chenile
Wing: purple zonker strip
Collar: Natural Pheasant rump

Step 1. Secure your hook in the vice and wrap the lead wire so it cover approximately three quarters of the shank.

Step 2. Start your thread just in front of the lead and securly tie it down.

Step 3. Tie in 4-8 strands or purple Krystal flash.Step 4. Tie in the silver ribbing.Step 5. Tie in the black sparkle chenille.Step 6. Wrap the chenille forward, tie off and trim up at the head of the fly.
Step 7. Tie in the purple zonker strip.

Step 8. Moisten the zonker strip and pull the hairs up wards, then rib the rabbit strip to the front of the hook and trim.Step 9. Tie in the pheasant rump feather.Step 10. Hackle the pheasant rump, and try to include some of the softer fibers for some added action. Whip finish and apply head cement. There you have it the finished Khartoum killer.Here is one of the many fish that have fallen to this deadly pattern.
Tight lines
-tyler-