Fly Recipes
Challenge #5
Hook - Size 4-10, long shank. Thread - Black. Tail - Natural guinea fowl. Body - Black wool/yarn. Rib - Flat silver tinsel. Throat - Natural guinea fowl. Wing - Ringneck pheasant tail fibers. Head - Peacock herl. The Challenge Question is: What is the name...
Answer to Challenge #4
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #4 is, Art’s Candy Fly. Sometime, back in the 1980s, Art Limber took minimalist fly patterns used in fishing for Coho salmon off the beach to a different level. Epoxy flies had recently become all the rage for Bonefish and...
Challenge #4
Hook – Size 8 or 10, stainless steel long shank. Thread – To suit overall colour theme. Body – Silver or gold mylar-tinsel wrapped around hook shank. Over-body and Tail – Polar bear hair and complimentary colour of Crystal Flash™ laid over back of body, tied down...
Answer to Challenge #3
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #3 is, the Davie Street Hooker. This very successful steelhead fly originated in the 1980s on the Thompson and Dean rivers by Ehor Boyanowsky. The evocative moniker of this fly pattern befits its appearance;...
The Comical Worm
Fly fishing off the beaches of East central Vancouver Island does not offer the same experience as do West coast kelp forests. Here, for ambulatory anglers, the main pursuit is sea-run Cutthroat trout and Pacific salmon, with the occasional by-catch of some bottom...
Challenge #3
Hook - Size 1/0 - 4, Partridge single salmon. Thread – Pink. Tail – Polar bear hair, dyed pink. Underbody - Silver tinsel. Body - Rear half silver tinsel. Front half fluorescent pink translucent vinyl strip wound over underbody. Wing - Polar bear hair dyed pink....
Answer to Challenge #2
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #2 is, Murray’s Rolled Muddler. In the fly originator’s own words: “The Rolled Muddler is one of those flies that evolved because I was looking for a pattern that imitated our local saltwater beach stickleback. The fish is...
The View from Bob Weir’s Bench 20 11 24
Although a late season Coho may sometimes be found off this beach, today was a day of curiosity, not for fishing. The big storm that blew through last night had battered the beach. A mid-morning high tide was a great time for a recc’y to view any possible damage. A...
Challenge #2
Hook - Size 12, Mustad 9671. Thread - Red. Tail - Mallard duck flank feather. Body - Silver tinsel. Ribbing - Fine silver wire. Wing - Mallard duck flank feather. Head – Natural grey/brown deer body hair, spun around hook shank, trimmed close. Lateral line – A few...
