The secret of the Navy Diver nymph, says Tim Flagler, may be its dark blue color, which works especially well in winter. “Although they can be tied in a variety of sizes, I like them fairly small, so here I’m going to use a JF2 size 18 Lightning Strike jig hook paired with a 7/64” slotted gold tungsten bead.”
How to Tie a Navy Diver
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How to Tie Peter Koga’s Hula Charlie
Peter Koga’s Hula Charlie, tied by Koga himself, is the featured pattern in Tim Flagler’s instructional tying video this week. The Hula Charlie borrows some elements from Lester Matsumoto’s Magic Charlie but stays true to one of the great classics in saltwater tying.
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How to Tie Ken’s Crystal Worm
Tim Flagler ties Ken Walrath’s Crystal Worm in this week’s featured tying video. “I think it’s the little bit of mottling and shimmer that together make this pattern look so lifelike,” notes Flagler.
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How to Tie a Get Down Pat’s
The Get It Down Pat’s is the subject of this week’s featured tying video. Tier and videographer Tim Flagler notes that it is “really nothing more than a Pat’s Rubber Legs tied on a jig hook. A weighty little beast, it sinks like a stone, pun intended.”
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How to Tie a Kinder, Gentler Mop Fly
Tim Flagler perfects his imitation of a cranefly larva with what he calls a Kinder, Gentler Mop Fly. It’s a fun pattern to tie, and Tim shows off some pretty fancy thread work, including tips on how to split thread to hold dubbing in place.
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How to Tie an Off the Hook Sucker Spawn
This week’s featured pattern in our tying instructional video is called the “Off the Hook Sucker Spawn” by author Tim Flagler. Sucker spawn, notes Flagler, are “an easy, early season high protein meal. At this time of year, it’s a good idea for anglers to carry at least a few…..”
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How to Tie a Top Secret Midge
Tim Flagler shows how to tie a Top Secret Midge, a pattern authored by Colorado’s Pat Dorsey, in this week’s featured tying video. “I believe the Top Secret Midge was originally intended for western tailwaters but it works seriously well here in the East,” says Flagler, “especially in smaller sizes, like anything from a 20 down to a 26.”
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Get Wild . . . On the Rocks! with Orvis’s New Battenkill Gin
“Orvis is proud to introduce—in collaboration with Vermont’s own Caledonia Spirits, makers of Barr Hill Gin—a revolutionary new option for lovers of the juniper berry. There has simply never been a spirit like Battenkill Gin, which offers a taste experience that connects to the history and traditions of the Orvis Company.”
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Violations of the IFPA’s New Rule on Fly-Name Obscenity Rile Tiers and Industry Leaders
The seven new flies named in the IFPA’s new voluntary ban are: the Ass-Gasket Emerger, the Dry Humpy, the BarackO’Rocket (steelhead fly), the Gonaddler Minnow, Jock Scott’s Jock (salmon fly), the Naked Lunch (a bonefish pattern), and Don’s Dingus Popper.
But professional tier Alleck Rüidt and other says the ban goes too far. ““Professional tiers can name flies however they want. We don’t need any third-party governance. This IFPA is just some kind of reactionary-PC thing.”
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How to Tie a Deadpool Midge
The Deadpool Midge is the subject of this week’s featured tying video. “The Deadpool Midge incorporates many of my favorite midge larva building materials into one super-tasty little package,” says tier and videographer Tim Flagler. “And like the character it’s named for, it is adorned in red and black and is pretty much indestructible.”
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How to Tie a Red and Black Midge
Tim Flagler demonstrates how to tie a Red and Black Midge in this week’s featured tying video. The Red and Black Midge, notes Flagler, is “ridiculously easy to tie, looks really cool, and works incredibly well.”
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Hunting the Saltwater Prize
“’Look: big school,’ my guide, Emir, said. He was pointing to a spot 50 yards in the distance. The surface of the water was churning, black tails poking up like so many miniature sails. ‘Hop out,’ he said.” Jon Gluck writes in The New York Times about fishing at Belize’s El Pescador lodge and his attempt at a grand slam.
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How to Tie a Damselfly Nymph
Tim Flagler demonstrates how to tie a Damselfly Nymph in this week’s featured tying video. “It’s an easy, quick and fairly cheap tie that works well in just about any body of water – making it an exceptional guide fly,” says Flagler. “Rob keeps a rather impressive list of all the species he has caught using this fly. It’s intended to generally mimic a damselfly nymph, which are common to lakes and ponds as well as rivers and small streams.”
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Video Hatch: “Journey On”
In the summer of 2015, filmmakers Aimee Savard and Chase Bartee packed up their belongings, moved into their 1985 Volkswagen Westfalia, and left their home in Massachusetts. The goal? To make their way to Montana, and spend as much time as humanly possible exploring, fly fishing, and documenting their travels.
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How to Tie the Last Walt’s
The Last Walt’s is a fly that can imitate just about anything, from a caddis larva, to scuds, sow bugs, cranefly larvae, even mayfly nymphs. “When the fly gets wet,” says tier Tim Flagler, “the bright thread wraps become even more visible beneath the fur, giving the fly a unique and natural look.” Watch him demonstrate how to tie this versatile pattern.
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Bamboo Rod Makers’ Landmark Montana Shop Lost in Fire
Early on Sunday morning a fire destroyed the Twin Bridges, Montana workshop where Glenn Brackett, Jerry Kustich and the rest of “the Boo Boys” crafted some of the finest bamboo fly rods ever made. As Jerry Kustich wrote to MidCurrent this morning, “Twin Bridges will be going through bamboo withdrawal.”
R.L. Winston released a statement this morning, including the following:
“The R.L. Winston Rod Company suffered a great loss in history, tradition and the best bamboo rods on the market on Sunday morning, when the Winston Bamboo shop caught fire. It is suspected the fire resulted in a total loss of property and equipment, valued at over $1 million. Fortunately, no one was harmed and no damage to surrounding property occurred.
The fire took place exclusively at Winston’s Bamboo shop. Our Boron/Graphite facility and Bauer Fly Reel operations run separately and business hours have not been affected.
More than the money, the fire feels like the passing of a cherished family member. Countless hours through many hands have shaped the fine bamboo rods that have passed through the now charred doors. It is not surprising the emotion Winston rods is feeling, and the healing process will take time. But, as we grieve, we also look to the future.”
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How to Tie an SBR Sulphur Nymph
Tim Flagler demonstrates how to tie a pattern he calls the SBR Sulphur Nymph in this week’s featured tying video.
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How to Tie The Insult
Poul Jorgensen’s “The Insult” is the featured pattern in this week’s fly tying video. Tim Flagler ties this one on a size 12 Daiichi #1770, although Jorgensen’s original recipe called for a size 10. “I absolutely love patterns like this that require few materials, are quick and easy to tie and most of all, can be counted on to catch fish,” says Flagler.
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Smith Optics 2017 Sunglass Giveaway
From today through May 29, MidCurrent and Smith Optics are running a giveaway for a new pair of Guide’s Choice sunglasses with the winner’s choice of lens tints. Just go to the Giveaway page and sign up.
Read more about Guide’s Choice sunglasses and Chromapop lenses on the Smith Optics website.
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Bristol Bay on the Edge
Friday, May 12th, news broke that the Trump administration paved the way for the Pebble Limited Partnership to restart its quest to dig North America’s largest open pit copper mine – directly in the headwaters of Bristol Bay’s vast wild salmon runs. For the next five days you can watch the new movie “The Breach,” produced by Mark Titus here on MidCurrent or on Vimeo.
The EPA and Pebble’s settlement agreement was a backroom deal brokered between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Pebble. The EPA’s own peer-reviewed science was not taken into consideration, nor the requests from Bristol Bay’s Native Communities, fishermen, and hunters and anglers to uphold the EPA’s Proposed Determination.
Bristol Bay provides 14,000 American jobs and 1.5 billion dollars to the American economy with the 30 – 60 million wild sockeye salmon that return there each summer.
Please take action and call EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt to tell him compromising an irreplaceable ecosystem, a fully sustainable food supply and some of the greatest sport fishing on earth is unacceptable.
The Office of EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt: 202.564.4700
For a dive into what’s at stake in Bristol Bay, watch the award winning documentary The Breach for the next five days for free through this link here: THE BREACH
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