Spun of Hackle, Wool, and Flash Dancing with Trout Wooly on the Swing Deceiving with every twitch on the drift Wooly Bugger Ode` Over time teaching fly tying class I have offend started beginning fly tyers off with the Wooly Bugger as the first fly they will tie. With a Wooly Bugger the tyer […]
Pre-Post COVID19 Expedition Similitude-1 Camping and Fishing to Seattle Got rubber rolling down the US-24 west at 7 am on Memorial Day, heading to see what is going on and talk some Thoreau teaching about peaceful civil disobedience. Cog railroad car from the Pikes Peak rail As a company, […]
Hiking the Wonderland Trail in its entirety has always been a dream. At this moment time is just a short in and out was all that was written in the trail dust for me. It was a perfect summer day for doing ten miles in my hiking clothes, brook trout patterned leggings and […]
Mount Rainier National Park, Summerland Wonderland Trail Similitude1-2 Hike Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park is always fun. Feeling a little more energic this morning, must be the blue skies. Comfortable in my hang out graphic hoodie and trout patterned leggings, the first mile breezed by. Wonderland Trail circumvents the base of Mount […]
Feeling the Energy and Beauty of Mount Rainier Mount Rainier has a special energy, like all our National Parks. Some more that others, I have felt different energies beside, before and behind me. Those bug me a bit, harder to pinpoint. Be prepared and stay aware of your surrounding at all times in […]
Cheesman Canyon Similitude-1 Hike Along the South Platte River On a sunny Sunday morning arrived at the Cheesman Canyon Trailhead for a loop hike of exercise and photography, without looking at a map or having one did an 8.01 mile loop hike with 2.5 miles of road hiking. I started out this layer, […]
Tying a Olive Micro Wooly Bugger Personally I have found trout really enjoy a Micro Wooly Bugger tied on a jig hook with a red bead. I have been tying these wooly buggers in a size 14. I find tying wooly buggers relaxing and catching trout exhilarating. The easiest way to put […]
Hiking Washington State on Boulder River Trail Similitude-1 Boulder River Trail was a last minute Sunday morning type of thing, getting out the door around eleven am. Grabbing extra coffee, water, brown trout fishing hoodie and my pack out the door we went. Distance 6.24 mi Ascent 872 ft Total Time 4h […]
Wooly Buggers Patterns, Tying, Fly Fishing Approaches to Fish Them I have a couple of boxes in my fly fishing gear of wooly buggers Patterns. I have several favorite rods, lines and approaches to fishing wooly buggers from a small stream to a spring run-off river. Still water is a whole different deal […]
Hiking the State of Washington on Boulder River Trail in Similitude 1-2 In this year of strangeness or as Jim Morrison sang about on the Album Strange Days, people are strange especially in times of chaos. On this damp Washington afternoon hiking in my Freestone Cutthroat Fishing Hoodie, fits just loose enough breathable […]
Caddis Flies a Trout’s Mainstay on the Food Chain For those who are unaware, Caddis flies are one of the most important and necessary aquatic insects in the country. They are also the one most imitated by fly fishers when they want their angling adventure to be successful. Found around the world in all […]
Hunter FryingPan Wilderness Similitude-1 fall hike on Lost Man Trail Last hike on Lost Man Trail was two years ago mid-July a wet summer’s day blanketed in wildflowers of every shape and color. It now a mid-September day with morning ice and some snow left from last winter. This past winter, spring and […]
