Guide Hands

Day in, Day out, sun, wind, rain, snow and freezing hail, guide hands take a beating. then you add jabbing them with size 2 articulated streamer hooks, down to holding the threading size 24 midges.

Well might as well add the callouss' one builds from a season of rowing. These damn things take a beating. Guide hands.....

T & A WEEKEND

 A sight not often seen on the our ditch, clouds of trico's. Because of the recent heat wave

we have been trying to beat the heat and crowds of boat on the river , and fishing early, usually a tactic that payoff tenfold.

However this Saturday morning, we would complete our shuttle and launch just before sunrise,

we still had not seen the water, little did we know we would laugh in a "plug" of muddy water from the rain storm upriver the night before. While this did not make for conducive fishing, it did make for a beautiful sunrise float, seeing deer, blue heron, hawks, pesky beavers and minks. 

Trico's and the Arkansas.....

About 8am we were treated to some amazing hatches of trico's on the lower river. While there are

trio's on the Arkansas, clouds and clouds of them are not a common site. Just a neat site to sit and watch. 

Randoms #78 -

Fly shop cup of flies, todays choice - purple haze

Weeks work, well maybe more!

Neon Stimi

Seen on near the Missouri river, daily.

View from the front seat of the boat on a beautiful Friday morning.

Summertime

Summer time calls for hoppers on most rivers of the US. In the west, I am very partial to fishing hoopers starting in July through first frost. Then maybe some more because our finned friends cannot 

resist them.

Because myself and other fly-tiers must come up with new patterns all the time, it is impossible not to

have an impressive selection hoppers of every size and color. It is alright to be a collector.

Warm weather, tall grasses, get out and throw a hopper.