Trash on the Fly

Oh yeah, there goes another packet of gold flashabou.  Pickerel: check.  Spring: pending.

Got a big order of Sucker Punch materials in the mail the other day…
 
As soon as I get done chasing birds I had better start tying!  There’ll be tailing fish in no time… February will be on us before we know it.  Not that you can’t catch em the rest of the year, but, by the time snipe season [...]

I went back to the site of Apex Trash.  I was hoping for another alligator gar– maybe even a bigger one.  When I got to the spot, there were gar rolling, and I couldn’t see them while they were near the surface long enough to be sure, but, I hoped they were all alligator gar.  After [...]

¡Fabio, a la izquierda! I whispered not three minutes after we bailed off the panga so Pablo could pole the edge for Chad.  [Fabio, to the left!]
This was the first fish of the week, and it was almost too easy– the tailing pod of fish was roaming hungry and it was just a matter of quietly hurrying to [...]

My father-in-law introduced me to wing shooting.  Since my own father didn’t hunt I never tried it when I was younger.  I have always been an outdoorsman, and always been surrounded by people that hunt but never thought I’d get involved in it.  A lot of  people that I took carp fishing would comment that stalking carp has a lot [...]

 
Zach is a fashion beast.  Oh, the fitover-style sunglasses are mine, to be sure– in case of polarization emergencies.  The baseball hat as well.  But only Zach can turn a borrowed hat and a spare t-shirt into serious flats stalking gear.
His fish was also sporting something from the Fall 2008 line:  the Carp Gagger fly.  It’s [...]

The latest version of the Sucker Punch - The One True Carp Fly.
  
 
The new materials list is:
 
Rust thread.
Bead Chain Eyes – large (5/32″), black.
Centipede Legs – Montana Fly Company, Speckled Orange #801, size Mini #0.
Wapsi Life Cycle Peacock Dubbing, Crawdub Burnt Orange Dubbing.
Hot Orange Pheasant Rump.
 
Hooks are awfully personal, but, this one is tied on a [...]