fly tying

Leftover Turkey

by Wayne Mumford November 26, 2011

You were expecting a recipe, a giant turkey sandwich? Sorry. Thanks to the kids we did eat a couple wild turkeys this year, in the process I got them to save me a wing; should’ve got the pair. Anyway, my never ending feather fetish led me to a little limited turkey research. The gist of [...]

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Plucking the Duck- Mallard reincarnated as Fly, Part I

by Wayne Mumford November 1, 2010

I’m not a big hunter unless it involves a fishing rod. It’s about putting something on the dinner plate unless some unfortunate deer with a decent rack stumbles over me- which actually happened last year. My kids on the other hand are busy blasting away at everything this fall, living the life of true hunting [...]

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Montana Mouthwash, The Shimmer Nymph, Frito’s Craw Bouncer

by Wayne Mumford May 30, 2010

Here’s a collection of bugs that should get us into some fish. The first is a nice looking Woolly Bugger variation, the next is an early season, high viz nymph and finally a cool looking crawdad pattern. Montana Mouthwash, Keller’s Montana Mouthwash by fly tyer Kris Keller of Big R Fly Shop The Shimmer Nymph, [...]

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And yet another Golden Stone pattern

by Wayne Mumford April 15, 2010

D-Rib Golden Stone Fly by Carl Pennington, 11/07/09 from Juan Ramirez on Vimeo. Ok, I’ll get onto something else now. Obviously I like fishing golden stone fly nymphs so I was just prowling around the web to see what was about. I like this one because it doesn’t have the thorax dubbing overload that this [...]

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Golden Stone Pattern

by Wayne Mumford April 13, 2010

The golden stone fly is just about everywhere in the faster, rocky bottom waters of Montana. This pattern caught my eye because it’s pretty simple and looks good. It’s a little overstuffed for my tastes, I’d probably cut back on the dubbing some and maybe use a hopper hook but otherwise it looks like it [...]

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August?

by Wayne Mumford August 12, 2009

The weather seems hardly anything but. The end of July seemed like it was priming us for a hot finish to the summer but it hasn’t happened. Thunderstorms, torrential downpours and wind have been the norm. Fire, smoke, oven heat and dry lightening, the usual August stuff are nowhere to be found. I did have [...]

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BT’s Dubbing Twister

by Wayne Mumford November 14, 2008

In my last post I mentioned that “I have pretty much gotten over the knick-knack gadgetry fetish…”- well sort of.  Awhile back I was following a link off SwittersB’s weblog, I think it was on body weaves for flies, which was excellent- even though I don’t speak French. Anyway I continued on to some of [...]

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Dubbing remix…

by Wayne Mumford March 9, 2008

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