#lunchties
February 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today’s #lunchties: size 8 olive Squirrelly Dans. Recipe in alt text

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February 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today’s #lunchties: experiments with micro pine squirrel zonkers. I like the results with palmering them like hackle!

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February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today’s #lunchties another old reliable, the peacock and starling. Recipe in alt text

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March 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today’s #lunchties: Mink “Mohawk” Zonkers. Recipe in alt text

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February 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Today’s #lunchties: taste the rainbow! Killer bugs with a variety of Shetland Spindrift yarns. I honestly don’t remember the names of all these colors.

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February 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Today’s #lunchties: more mink zonkers. This time with soft hackle collar. Recipe in alt text. #flytying #flyfishing
February 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Today’s #lunchties: prototype super-micro “Intruder” thingy. #wetflies #softhackles #flyfishing #flytying #troutspey #tenkara
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Catch of the day, Super Bowl edition, 2 rainbows in the net, 1 lost right at net, 2 long distance C&Rs, several more grabs, 1 ambitious chub. Also the usual trash clean up. The hot spot soft hackle from last week’s #lunchties was the winner today.

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February 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Today’s #lunchties are nothing fancy, just replenishing my stock of size 14 Stewart Black Spiders. Recipe in alt text.

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March 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
January 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today’s #lunchties: The Emu Returns Again Part 3: The Threequel. As promised size 16 emu crackleback and a size 10 emu sakasa kebari. Recipes in alt text #flytying #flyfishing #tenkara #simpleflies #guideflies
March 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Today’s #lunchties: you guessed it more emu cracklebacks! My sources indicate that the holographic blue size 16 is cash money. If

I’ve started stripping the fibers from one side of the emu feather. This makes a more photogenic fly, but I doubt the fish care.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today’s #lunchties: more zonkers! This one is a big boy version for the wipers. Recipe in alt text.

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February 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today’s #lunchties: killer bug + hackle: Chris Stewart Killer Kebari, Gartside Sparrow, soft hackle scud, sakasa kebari. All in basic oyster Spindrift + partridge. Next up: on beyond oyster!

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February 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Today’s #lunchties: white bass kebari! Yes you read that right. One of the streams I fish during the spawn run is quite small and doesn’t have hybrids, so a tenkara rod works quite well.

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February 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Today’s #lunchties Partridge and Imitation Royal.

Recipe in alt text

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February 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My #lunchties are exercises in working with the small amount of materials I can take to work in this container seen here on my home tying desk. This coming week I think I’ll try working with pine squirrel and mink zonkers for mini-streamers/leeches.

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February 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today’s #lunchties I shall call “None More Beige”. Recipe in alt text of second photo.

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February 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Today’s #lunchties: Seaducer. It’s never too early to start prepping for the white bass/wiper run! I tie a lot of simple flies because the waters I fish are loaded with snags. This recipe is just saddle hackle and a little flash about. See alt text for recipe.

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February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today’s #lunchties are a new twist on the tried and true Ozarks fly pattern: the emu crackleback. The first one is tied big for detail on a size 10 hook but I’m going to go down to 16 as those seem to work best at the trout parks. The second is size 14.

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March 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today’s #lunchties: the trusty old Utah Killer Bug. With a variety of yarn/thread/wire you can come up with a bunch of Killer Bug variants, although it’s pretty hard to beat Sawyer’s OG or the Utah update. Recipe in alt text

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February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Today’s #lunchties if you see a pattern, yes I love wet flies. Tenkara for upstream pinpoint drifts and manipulation; and trout Spey for downstream swinging. The same flies work well for both applications.

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February 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Today’s #lunchties: variations on the gilding the lily of the basic Killer Bug theme. First is the OG tied with wire, and it gets more complex as we go. Do they work better? That's questionable other than the jig style. Tomorrow we add hackle!
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February 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM