Pattern For Pms

[laker67]

This is always an interesting read every 6 months or so when it comes up.

-Jerod

I spoke of a fly that the college boys from springfield were tying a few years back and I'm sure it was a spinoff of Leonard's fly. Fact is that the fly produces. I used it in the high water of 08 and caught 26 taney lunkers just on that one pattern.

[Conehead]

Well,

Thanks guys for your input. And Leonard, thanks for your help. Leonard I usually fish with Daune D. when I hit Tanney and he always speaks very highly of you. Thanks again.

I did not mean to rock the boat of friendship. Both Brian and Leonard are in the "fishing buddy" group, but not sure they are fishing buddies.

Fun post, hope to see some of you in Late January.

George

[duckydoty]

George

Let me know when you are coming. Roaring River has got some nice fish in it right now. You'll have to get over that way also.

[dfield]

Why don't we have a data base of fly patterns on here?

[fishinwrench]

Why don't we have a data base of fly patterns on here?

We do. With intricate directions on how to tye them, and everything. Scroll down to Fly Recipes

[ohmz138]

We do. With intricate directions on how to tye them, and everything. Scroll down to Fly Recipes

http://ozarkanglers.com/index.php?option=c...0&Itemid=74

[Gavin]

Havent tried the PMS, but it must be a good fly cuz the pine squirrel pegs are often empty at the St. Louis area fly shops....Wonder if Leonard's fly is gonna add em to the endangered species list;>)!

[Conehead]

difeld,

There is a fly pattern data base. But when I type in PMS in the search window, it comes up "No results". After Phil's post, I saw the PMS pattern in the data base; It must have been there all the time, but I missed it (just like my kids used to do).

(Duckydoty)

Daune,

Do you still have the same cell # as you did last January, if not PM me. (EDit: Duh, I just noticed your website, I got your number)

A friend and I are flying into Branson on (Thursday) Jan 28 at 2:15 pm. We will fish Tanney on Thurs, Fri, and plan on hitting Roaring River over the weekend. My friend will fly back on Monday, Feb 1st at 2:00 pm. I'll run him to the airport in my waders, and then back to Tanney. I have business meetings Tuesday to Friday and will fish when the company offers any free time or do a little night fishing (tempatures permitting).

I understand Lilly's is hosting a tournament on the 30th. We have not even thought about that yet (I'm guessing you would need a boat to be competive). Not sure I would want to rent a boat for Tanney high water since I am not all that familiar with the channels on the lake.

The wife and I are vacationing in Branson the last week of April, perhaps dinner with you and the Mrs and a little fishing may be in order if you have not left for Alaska by then.

Catch you in a few weeks.

George

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I called Leonard and apoligized for my remarks. End of story on that front.

[FJ80]

I spoke of a fly that the college boys from springfield were tying a few years back and I'm sure it was a spinoff of Leonard's fly. Fact is that the fly produces. I used it in the high water of 08 and caught 26 taney lunkers just on that one pattern.

How I met Brian Shaffer...Many moons and fish ago (8yrs now) I was of the group of the college boys from Springfield that took advantage of our college situation and really began to figure the Taney night fishing out for ourselves. We suffered many a morning sitting through fisheries management class watching each other nod off. On one of our trips to I was fishing just down from #2 and noticed something moving slowly, eerily towards me in the fog on top of the water. At first I thought it was a group of geese, I rubbed my eyes and looked again, but still couldn't make it out. After I freaked myself out and yelled at my buddy we realized it was a pontoon rowing upstream towards us at 2:00 a.m.! The guy jumps out as he gets to us and proceeds to open his fly box and hand us each 2 flies after figuring out we were relatively new to the whole night fishing scene. He the proceeded to get back in his pontoon and say, "well fellas I'm going to go touch the dam, I hear there are some freaking huge trout up there ". The guy was Brian Shaffer. The first fly was an olive pine squirrel streamer without flash or marabou, at the time called a pine cone and soon given the un-official code name by us college boys, big nuts. The second fly was a mickey fin, a classic streamer pattern that later spawned another favorite night time streamer of our close nit college fishing clan. Soon thereafter, Jack couldn't keep pine squirrel in-stock at Back Country because we kept him cleaned out. I finished grad school in 2002 settled into a job, now have a 3 year old learning how to fish with Sponge Bob.

Brian, thanks for stopping and sharing that night, it has meant many meaningful and successful fishing trips and a great memory that we still laugh about to this day.

Leonard, thank you for taking a good pattern, working to improve upon it, and being willing to share with anglers wanting to have successful fishing trips.

You are both innovators on and promoters of a great resource we all get to enjoy. I am still amazed at the numbers of fish these patterns have been responsible for.