tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835Wed, 01 May 2013 14:28:31 +0000nuclear sunfishdeer islandtoolssouhegan riverPanosonic GH2bugger barnadrian popfoam hopperC.K. Nymphone feather flyalderflyfly fishing show Marlboro 2010Coolpix 4500patagonia wadersvermontj-vicemerrimack rivertipspanasonic ts2/ft2randy knappwoolly wormwaterproof cameranewfoundlandsoft hackle flyfred bridgeconnecticut riverclassic wet flieschronomidbear's dencamerahenry's forksouheganpumpkinseedThe Professor Streamerbob meadsalmon flyfallRapid River Streamermt. washington hotelgodaddycolebrookbluegilllargemouth bassgurgle-popLL Beanhenry's lake specialanytime anywhere nymphmozytroutwonder bughobie float catpaul dinolojvicetying deskdragonflywaterproof bagfavorite stuffammonoosuc riverpaul's looperRegal visebobbinebony jewellwingwet flymerrimac riverbob marriott'scolebrook flieseric austinbill longatlantic salmonpanasonic ts3fly fisherman magazinemurdochmillers riverhare and herlmosquitohopperhornbergshell crackersoft hackle streamercatalogThe Grizzly King Streamermarabou and mallardhans weilenmannpatternsfly fishing show Marlboro 2012woolly wisdomcliff outdoorsfly tying kitpentax 33WRKennebago Specialfly tying photography tutorialfloridabloggergrey ghostpeacock caddis larvaCanon G9davie mcphailbob ericksonemerging dragonflystevepanasonic ts1fujifor Peter Frailey's Fishingwithflies.comhttp://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/noreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)Blogger100125blogspot/RHChhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-4162749841776115767Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:58:00 +00002013-04-29T19:58:14.987-04:00millers riverwonder bugwoolly wormThe weather here in New England has been absolutely gorgeous.  We need rain, but with day time temps in the mid-60s and nights in the upper-30's I am really happy. It's nearly the end of April, and the April showers never arrived. It was a good ski season with more than the average amount of snow, so I am surprised to see water levels low along some of my favorite trout rivers and streams. So..http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/04/first-day-out-on-water.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/0MpAwzWv2oU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-8092264442791390001Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +00002013-02-20T06:00:07.807-05:00dragonflypatternsbill longIn the prior blog post I commented on Bill Long's realistic dragonfly nymph.  I have now uploaded to fishingwithflies.com Bill's story of this big bad boy.  Included are tying instructions and tips,  fishing tips, and a few pictures including a top view and side view. The story is indexed at the top of the following page.  It is labeled as story #89: http://www.fishingwithflies.com/http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/02/flies-with-story-bill-longs-dragonfly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/BREQy_LoTek" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-8083753629886292831Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:12:00 +00002013-02-18T10:12:08.759-05:00dragonflybill longA while back (actually, a very long while back) my friend Bill Long from Pennsylvania sent me a sample of a very realistic dragonfly nymph that he has fun tying and fishing.  I've drafted a page for the "Flies With a Story" section of my Web site and have sent it to Bill to check for any errors or revisions to the recipe. It will include several photos of the sample he sent me, and some tying http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/02/bill-longs-realistic-dragonfly-nymph.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/pA8Goii1KRc" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-4074110154355696883Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:44:00 +00002013-01-27T16:41:05.571-05:00hans weilenmannsoft hackle flydavie mcphailMy last three blog posts have been about soft hackle flies tied by my friend Paul DiNolo. Soft hackle flies are generally simple to tie.  Usually it's only a simple body, perhaps a touch of dubbing for a thorax and to make the barbs of the hackled collar stand out, and a few turns of a soft hackle feather. Materials are minimal and applied sparsely. When it comes to tying in and wrapping the http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/01/soft-hackle-flies-thoughts-on-tying.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/XDOIbrvXKZI" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-5216116444637205569Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:47:00 +00002013-01-19T20:47:15.517-05:00patternspaul dinolosoft hackle flyMy friend Paul has just prepared another article about soft hackles, which I published on the Web site earlier this evening.  I am writing about it here on the blog, but the full article and five photos of samples he tied and sent to me with the article are on fishingwithflies.com, here: http://www.fishingwithflies.com/FliesWithaStory.html It's at the top of the list, story #88.  Story #87 was http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/01/soft-hackle-flies-follow-up-by-paul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/URXyJqsnjss" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-3872986957191702554Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:27:00 +00002013-01-07T20:12:47.093-05:00patternspaul dinolosoft hackle flyI hope you will enjoy Paul DiNolo's article about the Soft Hackle Brassies he and his friends found so successful this fall and early winter on the deep glacier-formed ponds (called kettle ponds) near his home in southeastern Massachusetts. I've published his story on my Web site in the "Flies With a Story" section here: http://www.fishingwithflies.com/SoftHackleBrassie.htm Also, I have some http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2013/01/soft-hackle-brassie-better-photos-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/DuI0mucuBrs" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-1810290281069122930Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:33:00 +00002012-12-30T12:33:28.998-05:00patternspaul dinolosoft hackle flyMy friends Paul, Dennis and Jim have been fishing the kettle ponds of Cape Cod and environs all fall and through December, with awesome success.  I haven't quite found my way down to fish with them, as I seem to have put my gear away in early September.  But I have enjoyed Paul's frequent telephone calls with "fish reports"  to tell me how great the pond fishing (stocked trout) has been this yearhttp://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/12/the-soft-hackle-brassie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/SQpu9AOe3xU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-1087407331245847686Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:15:00 +00002012-11-25T12:59:34.114-05:00Regal viseNo. I am not leaving the world of fly tying.  Assuming I find a buyer for the Regal, I still have three vises left.  (I am talking about fly tying vises, of course!) It's just that I haven't used the Regal for quite a few years. If I can't sell it to one of my friends on this blog in the next week, I will list it on eBay with a "buy it now" price of $100. This model is the Regal Medallion http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/11/ive-decided-to-sell-my-regal-vise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/I87qeQjrbqU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-4806083306974777523Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:44:00 +00002012-08-08T19:44:17.640-04:00Yesterday's post provided a link to Post #1 of my two week Canadian Rockies trip. See the post below this one. Unfortunately the link was broken because some of the characters were missing. For about an hour it didn't work, until I corrected it. That link in yesterday's post will now get you to Post #1.  But it will not get you to Post #2, which was published an hour ago. So, I have keyworded http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/08/here-is-better-link-to-canadian-rockies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/nvy_a_LvHTs" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-640267497903287722Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:49:00 +00002012-08-07T17:35:42.920-04:00Full and upfront disclosure: this trip was not a fishing trip.  I am only posting this information here because I know many of my readers follow my photography Web site and blog, and many others are simply outdoor people who like to travel to beautiful places. I won't belabor the point past this one short post on fishingwithflies.com. My wife and I spent two weeks in June in the Canadian http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/08/travelogue-of-my-trip-to-canadian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/g_XgLi_cMIA" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-3524200492446819040Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:58:00 +00002012-08-05T17:58:09.094-04:00It was early afternoon when I saw this forming against the bright blue sky. I was float tubing in a farm pond. I was happy that this cloud broke apart a few minutes later. Now, five hours later (and about four hours after I stopped fishing) we are having quite the stormy weather.  Thunder and lightening galore.  I hope it brings in some dryer and cooler air, as we've been over 90F for five dayshttp://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/08/a-beautiful-sky-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/bxERsS0bIqU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-1605502869735232573Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:40:00 +00002012-08-01T20:40:09.123-04:00 8 a.m. breakfast at Poor Boys' off Rt. 93 at exit 5 in New Hampshire. Not a meal for anyone on Weight Watchers.  This shows Poor Boys' Specials for each of the three of us!  That's six plates for three people. In some parts of the world this would feed a small village, I would guess.  I didn't eat again until 5 p.m. Me Paul and Jim Me Jim I frequently skip the tail http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/08/a-few-pictures-from-tuesdays-day-trip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/Z7TbQ6gQDS4" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-3383782281846501513Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +00002012-07-25T21:20:33.203-04:00I couldn't help it.  With the weather forecast showing today as the "pick of the week", I decided a day fishing would be better than a day at the office!  Sunny sky, low humidity, low 80s. I drove 45 minutes to a "secret" location on the Merrimack River.  I'm sorry, but a promise to a friend is a promise to a friend.  And I definitely don't want my sources to dry up!  (But I will show a few http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/today-was-pick-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/bjuBmDn09Ak" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-230377542964530687Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:10:00 +00002012-07-22T13:11:11.726-04:00patagonia wadersfavorite stuffPatagonia stuff is expensive so you'd expect their customer service to be excellent.  Well, I just want to confirm that it is. Here's my story. I have two Patagonia flyfishing products, a pair of Gortex waders and a pair of felt-soled wading boots. [Actually, I have two pairs of Patagonia boots.  A two year old pair and a very old and worn pair that has been resoled once and which is nice to http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/patagonia-continues-to-impress-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/lGB2frf8EBg" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-7315721412311991753Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:58:00 +00002012-07-18T20:58:56.293-04:00I was fishing the other day in a farm pond with a small streamer.  Looking carefully at it after each cast I frequently spotted the very tiniest of bugs.  I'd love to know what they are called?  I assume fish eat them.  Frequently I see the sunfish in open water slurping flies near the surface.  I had always assumed they were little midges of some kind, but I never saw any flies.  Could these http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/how-small-do-bugs-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/cr_4V0ZMBnI" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-8897731177976168910Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:34:00 +00002012-07-15T17:34:18.225-04:00I know I shouldn't complain.  We've had a couple of heat waves here in New England, but nothing like the mega-heat some of my fishing friends from other parts of the country are reporting to me.  Our local ponds seem to have reasonable water levels, but my favorite river is running at about 1/3 of normal flow.  We need rain.  Even our lawn is getting brown, which rarely happens because we abut http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/were-having-heat-wave-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/owJDYoykIvA" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-7392583652452756818Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:44:00 +00002012-08-03T07:30:42.207-04:00marabou and mallardI have a lot of summer fun fishing for panfish in a local farm pond from a float tube.  Only a few people have a permit to fish it, and I seem to be the only fly fisher.  Occasionally, I will see mini-bass boats with electric motors (these are the boats that you can put in the back of a pickup truck or on the roof of a car), but the fishermen driving these boats are usually fishing baitcasting http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/bit-of-panfishing-this-week-marabou-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/JlZIpAeRmrg" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-3176413078177855490Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:29:00 +00002012-07-08T07:12:12.103-04:00I'd never seen these new fangled glasses until my friend Paul pulled them out last week as the sun went down.  I guess you can find them just about anywhere: Target, Walmart, etc.  Where have I been? I wish I'd taken a picture of the glasses themselves.  But you get the idea.  There are two LED lights, one on each side.  He loves them for tying on flies in the dark.  I wonder how they'd be at http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/fly-tying-glasses-with-led-lights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/sE-39hHy2SY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-2915954833701649594Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:06:00 +00002012-07-04T17:06:31.020-04:00I fish alone frequently and always enjoy it.  But there is something special about fishing with friends.  It seems that a number of times on this blog I have reported about my power trips to northern New Hampshire to fish for the day with a car full of friends.  It's always a great time, though I am really exhausted the next day. These are day trips.  I get picked up here in Massachusetts by http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/07/fishing-with-friends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/ej_yLgcqn5o" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-178340411291818392Sun, 20 May 2012 13:49:00 +00002012-05-20T09:49:05.381-04:00Here in eastern Massachusetts it was at first felt that we'd have a nice earlier-than-usual trout season.  But in spite of the flowers and other flora being a few weeks ahead of schedule, the fishing in April never seemed to take off.  Water levels were low early on, due to the fact that there was no snow to melt and run off.  But the water was nevertheless cold and I don't think the bugs were http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/05/water-levels-are-beginning-to-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/Rf02wkDPij0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-7928416604285929138Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:00 +00002012-05-09T07:30:29.749-04:00Google keeps coming up with great ideas to add to their blogging system.  [fishingwithflies.com is a bona fide Web site, which I run from my home computer with Frontpage 2003 software... a bit antiquated but it still works; while fishingwithfliesblog.com is a blog powered by google which means among other things that the content is fully stored on google's servers which makes it oh so simple. http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/05/i-just-added-foreign-language-translate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/EGszIPl2Bqo" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-8642594623622525539Sun, 06 May 2012 16:08:00 +00002012-05-06T12:08:51.656-04:00Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but I just uploaded to my photography Web site a set of 16 images of butterflies photographed yesterday.  Since I presume that most of the readers of fishingwithflies are nature buffs, I thought these images might be of some general interest. Yes, I know it's not likely that any of these will find their way into the mouths of a bass or trout.  And I don't think Ihttp://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/05/flies-of-different-sort.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/wCYkcavwaU0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-1746049820118326914Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:02:00 +00002013-03-06T12:17:04.681-05:00fly tying photography tutorialpatternsone feather fly Part 5 of a 6 part series So..., using the information and suggestions from the first four parts of this series on photographing your fly tying steps, I have prepared a few images showing the construction of a very simple yet effective fly I call the "One Feather Fly".  It is a great pattern for practicing dubbing, both direct dubbing and dubbing loops.  And it involves using feathers that http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/04/step-by-steps-for-one-feather-fly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/TCzY39Ilx0g" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-3183892771364517689Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:31:00 +00002012-04-13T10:31:04.912-04:00fly tying kitI recently discovered my old flytying kit from circa 1960 (maybe '61 or '62) buried in a box in the attic.  Looking at the contents, it's no wonder that I lost interest almost immediately.  Check out the vise that came along with it!  And those feathers... oh, my goodness.  I remember "tying" (I use that term loosely, pun intended) a few flies, each of which disassembled quickly on the water, http://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/04/bit-of-reminiscing-worst-flytying-kit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/VgUQbt_tZOY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861885056754631835.post-7465125493408161470Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:52:00 +00002012-04-01T17:52:41.592-04:00fly tying photography tutorialPart 4 of a 6 part series In this tutorial I thought I would share some of the things I have learned about using point and shoot cameras for fly photos.   Auto Mode For many point and shoot users the entire idea of just "pointing and shooting" is very appealing.  It's easy and the results are quite reasonable and generally "good enough".  All you do is set the camera in its "Auto" mode and firehttp://www.fishingwithfliesblog.com/2012/04/set-up-for-your-point-and-shoot-camera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter F.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/RHCh/~4/63qTizEgakE" height="1" width="1"/>