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Tying Flies

It’s Grasshopper Time

by Wayne Mumford August 27, 2010

Even though the weather seems to be flaking out the grasshoppers around here right now, the various grasshopper patterns are always a hot ticket on the water during late summer and fall.
I visited today with a guy from Fernie, B.C. and he said that the usual hopper frenzy was not happening, small drys- already. He [...]

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Top Water Frenzy or, Where have you been lately?

by Wayne Mumford August 10, 2010

It’s no mystery,  it happens to all serious fishing folk this time of year; they go fishing. When you are locked up in hard water and crummy weather for most of the year it’s hard to resist the urge to do nothing but fish 24/7 when the weather finally favors your favorite piscatorial pursuits. So [...]

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Top Water Pike

by Wayne Mumford August 2, 2010

I guess I’m going to have to consider an epoxy coat or a kevlar vest for my top water foam frog patterns. This one lasted about 20 minutes last night, which equated to 3 landed fish and a half dozen attacks. Yes, the top water bite was on. Flipping hysterical fishing.
As soon as the sun [...]

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Making Bass Poppers, Foam vs Cork

by Wayne Mumford July 25, 2010

I did a little battle last season with cork poppers- cutting, shaping, sanding, poking holes through bodies for legs (and myself) and so forth. I bought some foam blanks in typical shapes which are fine but can get a little spendy and I had to mail order (wait, no way) and it seemed like I [...]

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Kermit’s a Goner

by Wayne Mumford July 24, 2010

While the top water bite is not exactly going gang busters yet we still had a few takers. I drug out some of my foam frog top water fly experiments to see how the pike would size them up.
The little league guys thought it looked pretty good, this one just about downed the whole works. [...]

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Foam Topwater Bass Bugs

by Wayne Mumford July 18, 2010

I’m staggering to the finish of ten day absence from the US workforce, vacation in other words. One can never be to prepared for vacation, blown boat trailer tires, boat trailer wiring meltdowns, truck front ends falling apart and such. I’m trying to figure out what nasty thing I did to be visited the the [...]

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The Traveling Sedge

by Wayne Mumford June 30, 2010

It’s getting about that time already. Traveling sedge time that is. Those large skittering meatballs that show up for the evening meal on many north country lakes trout menu.

This is a cool looking tie by Dave McPhail that should do the trick.

And of course the old standard, The Goddard Caddis.
Ah, those explosive attacks when [...]

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