Food, Fishing, and Outdoor Adventures
I’ve never been one to carry a multitude of different streamers. Perhaps I have not been properly schooled in the ancient arts but I have always just carried a few basic streamer patterns. I love the addition of his rubber tails which incorporates everything that works on a Meatwhistle and adds a little bit of McKittrick’s Jawbreaker.
A few saltwater patterns Scott tied up this winter in hopes of making it to the ocean during 2012.
Mysis in Colorado carry a mystique of black magic. People have their special patterns to emulate the small crustaceans and for the most part are unwilling to part with their secret recipes. Some of the largest trout in the state and even the country are caught every year on mysis. In certain tailwaters it is a fly that you can never take off, no matter how slow a day has been, you always keep the mysis as the lead fly. This is probably my favorite collection Scott tied this winter, and the one that I want to steal.
Green Drakes in my mind are not a staple pattern of Colorado as much as they were for me in Montana. That being said, for a couple weeks every summer you look up and realize you are in the midst of thousands of Drakes wishing you were more prepared. When July comes around you better be ready to fish drakes, and fish them hard. Fishing the nymphs below riffles and the dries anywhere else can provide you with a day you will never forget. The nymph doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be big and buggy, and that is exactly what Scott was thinking…apparently.
