Schullery on One Fly
https://www.paulschullery.com/ A treatise on colors. The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours and Their Applications to ... - Michel Eugène Chevreul - Google Books
Types of Wild Salmon
6 Types Of Salmon Ranked From Least Preferred to Best Salmon, renowned for its taste and nutritional value, holds a special place in various cultures worldwide. From the revered ceremonies of North American tribes to its presence in traditional Japanese feasts, salmon continues to be a sought-after delicacy. With its popularity soaring, navigating the diverse array of salmon options available in grocery stores can be overwhelming. Questions about sustainability, sourcing, and quality often arise. To aid in making informed choices, it's essential to understand key factors such as size, bone presence, and meat color. Here, we present a comprehensive comparison of six popular types of salmon, shedding light on their unique characteristics and culinary uses. 6. Chum Salmon Chum salmon, also known as Silverbrite or Keta, roams the Pacific coast of America, typically weighing between 8 to 15 pounds. Despite its historical significance as a food source for sled dogs, chum salmon often faces aesthetic prejudice due to its brownish hue and curled lips as it ages. However, this variety offers excellent taste at a more affordable price point. Its mild flavor and drier texture make it suitable for various cooking methods, including baking, broiling, and grilling. 5. Pink Salmon Pink salmon, the most common species in the Pacific, lacks the oil content of its counterparts but shines in terms of sustainability. With regulations ensuring responsible harvesting practices, canned pink salmon emerges as a lean, healthy option. Ideal for salads, sandwiches, or salmon cakes, it offers versatility and nutritional value with minimal saturated fat content. 4. Atlantic Salmon Unlike the diverse Pacific salmon varieties, Atlantic salmon is exclusively farm-raised, boasting higher oil content and a flaky texture. Despite initial concerns about pollution and over-crowding in
This Land is Your Land
Get outside and discover it. While the white man did a great injustice to the native peoples of North America, in changing the lay of the land, the one redeeming thing about the current status of land ownership in the US, is the amount of public lands, particularly in western states. Get outside and discover it. Beeches, boats and fancy dinners or what most people think about when they think about a date. In our family, it’s more about prairies, ponies, and sporting adventures down two track roads that lead us back to old friends and the chance to make even more memories. Life is not measured by the breathes we take, but the moments that take our breath away.
Frank Sawyer’s Bow Tie Buzzard
One of Sawyer’s favorite flies is described in Fly Fishing With a Buzzer Nymph, as described by my old pen pal. By Nick Sawyer | Submitted On May 03, 2010 There are a great many representations of buzzer nymphs available on the market. Some of them are very good and no doubt most of them will have caught fish at some time. As far as I know, there is only one bow-tie buzzer and that is the pattern designed by Frank Sawyer. Any others are simply copies of the original in just the same way as all weighted nymphs are developments of the Sawyer Pheasant Tail Nymph. Frank Sawyer spent a lot of his life teaching others how to use his original nymphs, the Pheasant Tail, the Killer Bug, the Sawyer Swedish and the Grey Goose. All require much the same technique and are used the world over with varying levels of skill. The Frank Sawyer Bow-Tie Buzzer (BTB) is completely different. It is true that a few fish will be caught whilst using it as a conventional weighted nymph but as such it is far from deadly. When fished as Frank intended, it really comes into its own. The natural buzzer nymph hangs in still water, just a few centimetres below the surface. In its struggle to transform itself from nymph to fly, the buzzer seems to rotate in the water. All buzzers appear to have a kind of frill around the head. As with all things to do with fish and flies, Frank Sawyer spent years observing what happened underwater. He knew that if fish were to take a representation of a buzzer with any sort of frequency, something unique was required. He tried all sorts
Fly Tying Head Cement for Small Flies
Griff's head cement is gone, and a part of me has died. I'm in search of a replacement for the best head cement currently available for tying small trout flies. Griff's head cement has been discontinued, which was the best head cement commercially available for tying of small flies. Rim Chung is now using laquer and laquer thinner. I've gone to Veniards No. 1. Lacquer-based Head Cements Many other modern Catskill masters also use spar varnish as well as lacquers in their various forms. The well known Western fly tyer A.K. Best, in his book, "Production Fly Tying", advocates the use of common hardware store lacquer for its economy and fast drying qualities. Many of the "lacquer" head cements you purchase appear to be a very small bottle of nitrocellulose lacquer that you can get at the hardware store for a whole lot less money…(like A.K. Best says). If the head cement is a pale yellow color (or clear) and smells like lacquer thinner, it is a good bet it is lacquer. Griff’s Head cement - Griffin makes two versions, thick and thin. This is a very common product found in the US. A lot of my friends used this stuff because it was so readily available in our area. But it’s not thin like Griff’s. TroutHunter Harrop Superior Head Cement is the next on my favorite list, but the cloudy color is less than desirable to look at in the bottle anyway, though the application of it seems fine. I am also trying Homemade Thin Nail Polish Head Cement Recipe which is the 2/3 Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails, Clear Topcoat, with 1/3 straight acetone. Veniard’s No. 1 is the closest I have found and my favorite so far. Rim
What Happened to Mark Roth?
What ever happened to my fly tying picture framer friend, Mark Roth? If anyone knows how I can reach him, please let me know, as the mail I sent to his house/garage workshop in Woodland Park seems to have been returned. You can drop me a line at sportingroad@gmail.com. The following used to appear on his site about his hand rubbed wooden fly frames, which are unparalleled: Roth AnglingAll items are hand made one at a time...nothing here is mass-produced or farmed out. I started fly-fishing at age 11, and then filled my first professional fly order at age 12 in 1973, after being taught by Andy Puyans while working in his shop in Pacheco, Calif. I took up framing in 1988 following a number of customer requests. Some fishermen may have seen my small magazine ads in the late '80s and early '90s in 'Fly Rod & Reel' and 'Fly Fisherman' magazines, at which time I put out a small mail order catalog...this web site now functions as the catalog.A fly plate presentation consists of assorted flies mounted in a recessed shadowbox-depth frame, either with or without angling art or a photograph to correspond with the chosen flies. Each finished fly plate on this page is signed and dated, flies tied by Mark Roth. If you would like your own flies mounted in a fly plate, see: Custom Fly Framing page. Or if you see a design below you'd like to add your own flies to, inquire for a quote for a 'kit-only' on these without the flies.Each fly plate includes archival mats with gold & black French mat lines, acid-free backing, and each fly carefully mounted in a cherry frame. The depth of
Semblance Minimalists, Impressionists and Exact Imitationalists
The essence of zen is the beauty of simple things. Fly or Nymph Fishermen tend to fall into one of the above three categories. I am a semblance minimalist fly fisher and only carry 5 or 6 different patterns. I used to carry around 3000 patterns, I was an exact imitationalist, as I was a commercial tyer in my youth. But nowadays it’s just Rim Chhng’s RS2, the Improved Yong Special, the YKnot, the Calgon Fly, Andy Kim’s micro egg and a pheasant tail variant. If I found my former methodology more effective, I'd return to it. But minimalism suits me, and the fish as well. My old pen pal Nick Sawyer explains the minimalist set up well: http://EzineArticles.com/4255534
RS3 Fly-Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery
Over on avidmax.com, they just recently posted the following article about the RS3 fly, which is a supposed adaption to create a bulkier nymph than the RS2 fly which was devised by my very good friend, Rim Chung, some 30 years ago. Not sure why you would want "a bulkier nymph" but perhaps he's on to something, I don't know. To me, it looks more like the emerging Alien out of the movie by that title than an improvised RS2 to me, but everyone is entitled to their own tyings and who knows what works until you experiement with it, which Rim would approve of doing as many experiments as possible on the stream to find what works best for you and the trout in your area. There have been many commercial attempts to duplicate and/or improve the RS2 since Rim invented it, as he has never sold it commercially or attempted to keep the pattern to himself in anyway, including Rim's own Avatar fly. So as Rim always says, imitation is best form of flattery. Here's the article by Max Pavel on his RS3: How to tie the RS3 Max writes: The RS2 is a classic pattern that was created by Rim Chung. RS stands for “Rim’s Semblance”. The fly pattern was designed to imitate an emerging mayfly. If you have fished in Colorado the chances are you have heard about the RS2. The RS3 is a spin on Rims pattern that I developed because I wanted something that was tied on a heavy wire hook with a slim profile to be fished on bigger CO rivers where the average mayfly is a bit bigger then on the tailwaters. This fly has been very
Tilley Hats
I have had all of the Tilley hats from the original bucket duck hat to the present day help and microfiber ones, almost every one that they have made over the last 30 years. I have to say, that Rim Chung's stylish fishing favorite was and still is the T3, in white with green under brim. I got one of those to start, but I really didn't like the white color for standing out too much while fishing or shooting. Rim claims "it made him blend in with the clouds." My favorite was the LT6 in Khaki with Green underbrim. It was perfect for fishing and shooting, but they no longer make it and finding used ones are now difficult even, such as this one on ebay Tilley Endurables LT6 Hat Khaki Tan w//Green 7-3/8 Outback Straps Wide Brim I used to wear a Fedora and then safari hats for hunting then cowboy hats but I keep coming back to the Tilley. They are perfect year round, except the colder days of winter. The T4 duck hat was better looking with the brass holes than the current LTM6 mesh around the top of the crown version. I have also tried the models with bigger and smaller brims. They don't make much difference in the actual sun protection, as the longer brims are floppier (moving around some in the wind), and the shorter versions are more fixed allowing for you to keep them in place to provide shade. Neither of these new models are as good looking as the original T4. But I guess the T5 or LTM6 is better than the longer brimmed LTM2, which is very floppy as you walk around, if you have
Lance Egan’s Team USA Competitive Angling Flies
Euro nymphing is all the rage among marketing and fly shops these days as they tought their wares of "tactical angling" and "competitive angling." This is nothing really new compared to the methods that Rim Chung has employed for the last 30 years with his light-line nymphing methods here in Colorado, but the European methods seem to have evolved along similar paths. Fly shops have jumped on board, in an effort to sell more rods and a whole new line of leaders and flies, in an industry that has been largely stagnant for the last ten years. I have to admit that the premier guru of this euronymphing method is Lance Egan who has now produced probably the two best fly fishing videos/movies that have ever been produced to date, and the links to these movies are below. So being curious about his flies, I decided to order a few of his flies from his www.flyfishfood.com site. The ones we have found most useful in Colorado and Montana, we have posted tying directions here. Gut Sack Sow Bug Gray - 18 Stonefly Chenille - Coffee/Black Egan's Rainbow Warrior - Red - 18 Egan's Rainbow Warrior - Pearl - 20 Egan's Tungsten Surveyor - 18 Egan's GTI Caddis - Amber - 14 Egan's Frenchie - 18 Egan's Jig Frenchie - 12 Egan's Jig Rainbow Warrior - 16 Transfoamer Pink - 10 Pat's Black and Tan Rubber Leg - 8 The Thread Frenchie, a take on the classic Frenchie a very well-known Euro style fly is a great way to get a super slim bodied Euro style fly. This fly has evolved thanks to Lance Egan of Fly Fish Food and for good reason. Not only is