Monday, March 02, 2009

My last few Monday evenings have been spent reorganizing flies while my wife and her friend Jen steal the TV away. I pulled all my flies out, moved marginal flies to another box and put some go to flies in my primary carp box for this spring. I'm pretty happy with the results. Here are a few pics, though these are just the reorganized flies...since these were taken I filled in the empty spaces with another dozen Montana Carrots and close to a dozen of the venerable SJWs. In addition, I whipped up not one, but two dozen flies for a fly swap in CO. My first set of flies got lost in the mail(thank you us postal service!) I should have some pictures of the fly swap up soon...can't wait to see the full results as there are some serious carp anglers in CO. They flat out know their stuff down there.

I think the river is still a few weeks away from any serious carping...but I am officially ready to go. I added a 9 ft 6 wt Echo 2 to my collection, primarily as a backup but with as sweet as this rod is, I'll find reasons to fish it!



7 comments:

JM said...
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JM said...

John, what are the flies at the far top left under the SJW's ?

Also, bottom far left ?

Thanks !!

Anonymous said...

good to see you're ready to go. I'm jealous.

Wendy Berrell said...

I would call that a venerable collection of flies. The rubber legs theme is obvious. You tie up some great stuff.

Paul Huffman said...

Are the Montana carrots the ones in the middle row with he eyes?

I didn't know you liked crazy dads too.

Ward said...

I just found this blog and there's a lot of great stuff here. Especially appreciated the shot of your fly selection!!

Have you fished the 'headstand'?? (http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/img461bffec1811f.jpg) Its probably been more productive for me than the sjw.

Anonymous said...

I like the modified posse biggers on the top left. Anything that resembles a posse bugger is bound to catch fish.