Skills
State of Our Trout II
- By: Ted Williams
Last issue I promised and delivered some good news about the recovery of the West's imperiled trout, though in the case of Paiute cutthroat recovery-aborted for the fourth time by retired macroinvertebrate researcher Nancy Erman and her troupe of loud, aggressive, fish-stupid chemophobes-you had to look hard for it. Herewith, good news that- once you get past some discouraging elements-is more obvious.
Tying Tap's Bug
- Photography by: Ted Fauceglia
Tap's Bug is one of the all-time great fly-rod bass bugs. Let's tie one. (Please be patient—it may take a minute or two for all of the photos to load!) Start the thread on the hook shank. Tie in the bucktail tail. Trim the front end of the clump of bucktail and make a nice taper with thread on
A Better Bugger
- By: A. K. Best
- Photography by: A. K. Best
Attach the thread behind the hook eye and wind to end of the shank. Tie in the wire above the hook point, wind behind the hook eye as shown here, trim the tag, apply a liberal amount of head lacquer to the wraps and cover with two spiral wraps of thread. Clip of a small tuft of black-bear hair, remove the underfur and tie it on the hook immediately behind the lead wraps.
The Trout Ring
- By: Jeremie Hollman
An encounter with a bull trout leads to a disappointing midcurrent loss.
Staying on Top
- By: Darrel Martin
Keep your flies floating where the fish want them by using today's flotants in the most effective ways.
The Winged Beetle
- By: A. K. Best
Every beetle I've ever seen on the water has its wing tips visible just behind the shell back halves. This usually amounts to about 25 percent of the insect's total silhouette. Yet all the beetle patterns I see in catalogs and in fly shops have no wing tips showing. I think it's
Wye's Drift Indicator for Nymph Fishing
- By: Yasuo Wye Yoshida
Begin perfecting the dead drift with this breakthrough new fly-fishing system.
Estimating Tarpon Weight Formula
- By: Jerry Ault
