Story from the past

OK ladies and gents this blog will be written under the influence of Southern Comfort and Dr. Pepper…………….Sorry, I think. Since I posted two blogs within the last two weeks on fly tying. I am sorda at a lost of what to write about so I am asking you the readers to give me feedback […]

WHATS UP WITH THE SAVAGE RIVER?

With all of this winter stuff finally happening here in the east, I found it time to tie flies and do a little investigating. With a little time spent on organizing gear and fly inventory under my belt, I figure i would get tying and get answers. There were some things that went down a […]

First

I struggled with the title to this one, completely wanted to call it, “Busted 2012’s Cherry!,” “Ice Breaker” or any other cliche’d title of a similar vane, but settled on the simple “First.” There are mulitple ways of counting when the year begins, there are calendar years, fiscal years, the orthodox year, and the chinese […]

Articulated Hareball Leech

Fast, Easy, Effective, and Fun pattern is the Articulated Hareball Leech “AHL”. This pattern was introduced to me when I lived and fished in Alaska. This is a common pattern up there and as you fish your way back East it starts to be just a pattern you see in books or on the web […]

SEE YOU LATER 2011…HELLO 2012!

SAVAGE RIVER SEPTEMBER 2011 What a fantastic year.Why you ask? Well for starters a group of five guys decided to start this group that created a blog. Once the blog was started we thought…how can we spread our interactions and mishaps of bugchucking on a larger scale? Well that was when our facebook and twitter […]

My Back Pages

Sometimes ground zero isn’t always obvious. Sometimes it takes years to realize that one moment at one particular spot was the start of something big. For me it was Big Elk Creek I was 13 years old. Big Elk Creek isn’t the one you’re thinking of. It’s not an Erie Trib, not the piece of […]

Discharge Special

Listen up all you curb stomping fly fishing pimps and pimpets, you are about ready to see and read my recipe on the infamous discharge special. Only a few elite individuals that walk this earth are aware of the Discharge Special “DS”, but after today all you trout lovers can pimp the “DS”. A little […]

Intoxicated rod building 101 Sorta

Alright peeps listen up, here comes a new one. I know the blog has been lit up with fishing trips/stories and reports and that’s great but now I give you fast lesson on how to go about building a rod for an entry level fly fisher. This particular fly fishermen that this rod was built […]

IM DREAMIN OF A WHITE BUGGER

WHITE WOOLYBUGGER HOOK: MUSTAD R75 OR R75S (SIZE 6-12) TAIL: WHITE MARABOU TAIL BODY: WHITE CRYSTAL CHENILLE (MED.) TAIL FLASH: PEARL CRYSTAL FLASH WEIGHT: BEAD AND 18 WRAPS OF .025 LEAD UNDERBODY THREAD: WHITE 6/0 UNI-THREAD HACKLE: WHITE SADDLE(SAME SIZE OR ONE SIZE SMALLER(YES,SMALLER) BEAD: SILVER (PREFERABLE), BUT 1/8″ OR 3/16″ DEPENDS ON HOOK […]

Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Catch’em on Dries in November

The thing that is amazing about fishing, any form of it, is that as fishermen, we tend to prepare with one method or pattern in mind for a day’s fishing, only to find out that once on the water, we had really wasted our time in preparation that could have been better spent, well doing […]