Jeremy Hunt

What? Dry hand removal. To me, it looks I'm trying to give back to the sport and help a few folks out there who are willing to learn. There will be alot more videos coming so all I can say is, thanks for the people who do appreciate them.

How are you using yours at Taney and what are you usually throwing? I have the same one from TFO and have found a few uses for mine, but the conditions have to be right. I'm just curious, maybe we can share ideas.

I'm sure Back Country Outfitters does. It's rabbit from Hareline. If you can't get it there, we have it at our fly shop here (Blue Ribbon) locally. Ask for Larry and he will set you up and mail it to you.

Great deer hair work!! Love the flies! Thanks for sharing

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No problem. Thanks!

Thought I would share this with you. The other day we had a prolific caddis hatch. So many they were every where in the boat. The next day I woke up and because of the moisture, they actually were continuing the life cycle in the boat. I never seen this before and I learned alot from it. Very cool stuff.

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Brian, how's the river? Where did you get that net with the wood handle like that? Nice bow, they're sure pretty on that river. Any browns being caught?

It's at the Fish Hatchery below the Table Rock Dam, the main building. You have to call to make reservations.

Class will be this Saturday at 2pm. We will cover streamers and how to tie different articulated type patterns. I will also cover a little on how to fish these patterns in the best water conditions. Should be a great class. Hope to see you there.

Ham hit the nail right on the head. Come and see us at the shop. Water is running now and this is the time you want to throw big streamers. It pushes the big fish towards the banks. In this kind of water, you'll want 350-400 grain sinking lines to really be in the strike zone.

Good Job! I keep saying...those Circus Peanuts are dangerous. I know this pattern will do great at Taney for big browns at night, especially in the fall.

That is correct. There are a few ways to fish streamers in low water, which I'm finding out as I learn this whole “streamer thing“. It's really complex if you think about it. This last week we've been throwing switch rods (11ft-6wt) and Jim Teeny (10'ft-8wt). The way we caught that fish was, believe it or not a 400 grain, which is a little too much, but I knew the water we were fishing would handle it. It was about 6-7 feet deep with little current. What I have found out when fishing these Zoo Cougar's is you use the heavy grain lines to sink it because there's no weight in the fly. And unweighted flies with deer hair heads make a big difference on the way they ride in the water. I could go way more into detail, but it would really take way more time to talk about it. If you want, you could pm me your number and we can talk about it over the phone. Just way to much to talk about.

I worked all weekend. I haven't had a day off for three weeks. I have one tomorrow. Yeah, I wish I could've seen you guys to. Ty Ingram and a few others stayed at my house during Sowbug. We went over to Copper Johns for the b-cue. I was hoping to see some of you there to. Anyways.. We'll see each other sometime.

Fishing is really good right now. Low water on both rivers and fish everywhere. Also the didymo is back, and looks to be thicker then it was.

White River is fishing the best I’ve seen in a long time. In the last two weeks, we’ve hooked some decent browns everyday. Here’s a few more photos of some browns. The rainbow was caught at Dry Run Creek on the 16th by Jordan. The cfs is amazing right now. Keeping minimal flows makes for great holding structure throughout the whole river. Gin clear for the most part, unless we get a surge of high water. All in all…WOW!

What thread are you using? How many turns are you making when tying down the yarn? And how many do you tie in front of the yarn after you tied it down? These will fall apart after awhile. It happened to me and I had the same problem until I started using GSP and was able to make alot more turns around the yarn without building up thread bulk that you could see after cutting it to shape.

So here's what we've caught lately on streamers. Nothing to big, but quality browns in my book. Jason- Korker boots catagory manager stuck this yesterday at the very end of the day. These all came today and were all caught before 10 am. The "bite" on the "White"...got to love it!!!

Anyways....here's the steps if some of you want to tie. You can always use this for warmwater as well. Circus Peanut steps

On this pattern you don’t want it to be too loose. I’m using 25 pound mono. The hook has to be a 3xl and the hook style is TMC 5263. The thread to really secure the mono is Danville fly master 210. I like white so it doesn’t show through the rabbit, if you use rabbit for the body. I have some other ones tied up with rabbit, but I’m going to keep those to myself. Randall, you coming down to fish during sowbug. I have to guide two out of the three days, but if you can stay a day later we’ll get out there and hook some browns. Hopefully that good luck will stay on our side. Great fish you caught that day. I’ll be at Blue Ribbons booth.

To be honest, I have fished flies with rubber legs for a long time and have had no problems fishing them in any trophy zones. I’ve also been checked by agents who saw flies with rubber legs and didn’t question it whatsoever. So like someone said, you be the judge on what you should and shouldn’t throw. I think it’s ok, but that’s just my opinion. About the articulated hooks, it’s a must for having more action to the fly so if you can get away with it, do. One hook doesn’t give this fly justice. That’s why it was designed this way. I think every fly has a purpose for the way it was tied. More and more I’m starting to understand why people throw BIG articulated patterns. It’s all action and even when your not working the fly, it’s working for you. I bet you can hook just about anything you want on this pattern.

State Park to Cotter or White Hole to Cotter. I'll let him know.

I’ve had a few good trips on them the last couple of times out. We actually had more fish chase a streamer then nymphing on the bottom. Since the White was running 6-8 units for a few weeks I stayed on the fork. It was a fast float, but we would drift it three times in one day. The strategy has been throw streamers in the morning, the second drift we would nymph and the last one we would get real serious about what was in store. It’s been a great routine because if the White is running more then 4 units I would rather gamble with high water at the fork. Because the Norfork is such a shallower tailwater, when it does get high it’s still fairly shallow and I think that’s better water for fish to see fly patterns, especially streamers. The other day we had a huge brown chase our fly all the way to the boat. If I only had a few more inches of stripping time…one will never know.

Same here, but there's alot of water that isn't, which makes for excellent streamer fishing at night. Tomorrow I plan on drifting 11 miles in the drift boat from 11pm-7am and working streamers along the banks. Should be a great night and we are finally seeing some lower water levels to present these flies in. We’ve been doing really well with this particular fly for the last month.