Trip planning

[trythisonemv]

Looks like the usual suspects.  Thanks guys . Planning on throwing a barely legal and sculpin pattern I came up with as well. Taking several streamers actually.  Looks like sunburst is the best bettor shuttle and good float. Hope to hey down beginning of February ill post my findings. 

[trythisonemv]

So looks like life has stepped in and now trip is planned for 27/28 of February.  Going with the recommendation's from Brian sloss and staying at sunburst and floating those two floats. Very cheap to stay down there and they seem very nice! 

[trythisonemv]

Couple of new additions to the north fork trip box. Tied up a couple more Barely legals and some more stone flies I came  up with. 

[trythisonemv]

Another new pattern...

[trythisonemv]

Another one this one is similar to a fur trader but smaller profile and longer...

[Lancer09]

All craft fur?

If you can try something similar with bucktail in the body. Gives you more bulk for a similar weight. It will cast easier and probably have better movement. That much craft fur usually collapses on itself and doesn't have the stiffness to give much wiggle. 

But go throw it and see if you like the action!

 

[trythisonemv]

5 hours ago, Lancer09 said:

All craft fur?

If you can try something similar with bucktail in the body. Gives you more bulk for a similar weight. It will cast easier and probably have better movement. That much craft fur usually collapses on itself and doesn't have the stiffness to give much wiggle. 

But go throw it and see if you like the action!

 

Its got some yarn mixed in and the big schlapen tail.  Not overly confident with buck tail yet. Well see...

[trythisonemv]

The others have a lot of maribou which is my favorite material I think. Have some deceivers too but not anything people haven't seen before and again my bucktail savvy isn't real strong yet. 

[Lancer09]

If you can do synthetics you can do bucktail. Biggest difference is thread tension and not over doing the bucktail. Just decide if you are tying in flat, reverse or hollow flared and your good. 

[Lancer09]

Just worry about how much flare you want. Tie with different parts of the tail to see how they react to get what you want. Smaller amounts will still give bulk. If you use too much hair it's going to be too stiff to collapse down on itself.