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Posts Tagged ‘dragon fly
12
Jul
17
fanciful fun…
07
Jul
17
fly fishing…
took my grandson, Maddox, out to practice some casting at a local pond. The dragons & damsels were abundant and seeking any structures to land upon…to include the rod.
31
May
17
Forever…
“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
17
Oct
16
Stillwater Dragon Pattern…
“Around the seel no tortur´d worm shall twine, no blood of living insects stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather´d hook, with pliant rod athward the pebbled brook. Silentt along the mazy margin stray, and with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.” John Gay, Rural Sports, 1720
30
Mar
16
Holding on….
a dragonfly on my son’s fingertip…he (Tony Muncy) snapped the pic of the visiting fly.
25
Jul
15
Dragon & Light…
21
Jul
15
Stillwater Dragon Fly…
Oregon Rainbow Trout, Caught/Released by SwittersB
The abdomen of the dragon fly pattern is densely wound marabou (staggered colors) in a dubbing loop. The shaggy body is then trimmed with scissors or a razor blade (I prefer scissors). A wound hackle for legs and pheasant tail fibers for the wing case over the top of the plastic dumbbell eyes. The head here is dubbing but can be wound marabou fibers or ostrich herl fibers. I do not weight this pattern but prefer to take it subsurface with an Intermediate sink line fishing the shoreline of lakes out to the drop.
