Wait for It

With the rivers acting like roller coasters, those of us here at the shop have been giving one of our local lakes some casting time. This got me to thinking of what flies most people use there. Most people that know me, know I like to think outside the box when it comes to trying and tying new flies.

After sitting down and doing a little internet search about what style of flies are used at other lakes like the one close to us, I found some patterns not used around here. Out came the vise and I got busy tying these patterns in a few different colors. Tied up about a dozen very simple flies in these patterns.

The next day I handed them off to Tanner since he was headed to that lake before coming to work. Tanner fished for about 2 hours and was rewarded with 5 nice trout landed. One of them being a nice 3 pounder.

Now I'm sure you may be thinking, "3 pounder, what?" Well I'm not going to give that information out just yet.

Over the next couple of months we are going to be doing some refining of the flies and techniques for using them. Every few weeks I'll be posting updates on what we have come up with and how fishing has been. Come spring time, we will be showing you the flies and giving out information on the best type of techniques we have come up with.

What's the name of the lake and type of fish? Well you'll just have to keep checking back in for that. From all of us here at North40 Fly shop in Omak, we wish you a happy new year!

Keith