Saturday, September 1, 2018

Turning The Calendar

Good morning friends. Here it is the first day of September, Labor Day weekend is here and I'm sure there will be a few hot dogs and beer consumed over the next few days along with many other delicious specialties. Well whatever you choose please enjoy the holiday.

September is also the start of the meteorological start of Autumn and that's welcomed here. The next month will feature a variety of weather conditions as well as a few great days on the stream. By the end of the month we will have entered the "glorious season"....an anglers dream. Let's be patient and the rewards will come.


Figure out a way to wrap this to a hook.


The Orange Palmer, a great fly for the Autumn season. These are tied on size 12 and 14 hooks but don't be afraid to tie them larger.


Find yourself a place like this, float a fly and see what happens.


Guys like this swim in places like those pictured above.








28 comments:

  1. Beautiful pics, Alan. The season is indeed changing. I've got 43 degrees up here this morning; my favorite time of year.

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    1. mike
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      43 degrees, it's been a long time since I've seen that number here in the south. We've had a couple of nice days here and tomorrow it's back in the soup.

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  2. A great time of years to be out in the woods..... very nice phots and breakfast too.

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    1. Doug Korn
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      Yes Doug it sure is, and it's going to get better.

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  3. Beautiful pictures, and such a great time of year to fish. We've already had our first snow in Teton country. I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend!

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    1. Tom Davis
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      Tom it's a time of year when it comes together, hungry fish in color, and the landscape tries to match it.
      Good things are ahead.

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  4. C'mon Fall. It'll soon be time for Tog and Fat Alberts. Fun fishing, to say the least. Stripers and bluefish will also soon be plentiful. Usually. Your palmered orange looks like a simplified "bomber".

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    1. John Dornik
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      John I know you are excited. We usually hit the cape to fish for brookies, but the striper guys far outnumber us. The orange palmer is is pretty much the same as a bomber. Different tail and no wing.

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    2. Hold the french toast and bacon, Alan. I'll take my maple syrup with crusty fried-up scrapple. Grade B MS is actually better than grade A. "There is no arguing with taste".

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    3. John, scrapple is one of your faves, I know that from past post comments. I agree on your selection of maple syrup grades.

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  5. As always Alan a real treat. Thanks for the look into your world.
    Best wishes, John

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    1. The Two Terriers
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      John I love bringing that look to you.

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  6. Alan
    What great color combo to accent fall colors---delicious looking dish especially the bacon, fall and spring are my favorite seasons.
    By the way I didn't mention the pheasant tail you tied for me the other day on my latest post---very crowded Wednesday a lot of fishing pressure on this place. I landed trout dead drifting the pheasant tail and using it under the indicator. Pete would have been proud of its performance today. Thanks for tying it for me. Enjoy the holiday!

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    1. Bill Trussell
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      Bill I think everyone loves bacon. Your choice of seasons are hard to find fault with.
      Pete is smiling for sure. He loved that fly and fished it very effectively. You are now going to see how good that fly is.

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  7. G'Day Alan,
    Due to the time difference it's Sunday September 2 here in OZ. We are heading into Spring. Through SSR we can share the best of both seasons at the same time. It's also Father's Day. My son has given me a really nice pen knife in the shape of a fish. He found it at his favourite bookshop.
    While I enjoyed my oatmeal porridge for breakfast,your plate of bacon and what looks like fried egg dipped bread looks delicious. We call that "French Toast". Dont know why!
    As someone whose favourite wet fly is the Black Woolly Worm, I do like that Orange Palmer. Do you fish it as a wet as well as a dry? I like flies that are multi purpose. I've ordered some Hornberg's from a US fly shop for that reason. Not a fly that you find in OZ.
    Very pretty water fall and resident brook trout.
    I didn't get out for Trout Opening yesterday. I woke up with a severe cold(aka--Man Flu) and thought it a wiser move to stay rugged up in front of the fire. Today is most likely a goer--so this can be my Trout Opening. It's foggy and cool but not raining.
    I hope everyone has a fine Labour Day weekend. Down an extra hotdog and beer for me!
    Kindest Regards,
    Steve.

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    1. Steve Hynes
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      Steve wonderful gift that pen knife. Those little knives come in handy. We call it french toast here to. A touch of maple syrup and it's so good. The Orange Palmer can be fished wet, most of the flies I use must be able to do some multi-tasking at one point.
      The Hornberg can save a days outing. In the state of Maine I think that the Hornberg should be considered the official state fly. Get better and fish....

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  8. Alan, your photos bring wonderful reminders to what is coming. I would say it is my favorite time of year. The harvesting of crops ,the change of the leaves and of course those beautiful Brookies coloring up to pass on the next generation. Thankyou.


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    1. Brad Basehore
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      Brad great time are ahead of us. I fished that fly I found in the book you gave me, Limestone Ledgends. The fly is called The Madsen...it brought a few up to the surface. I've got to tie the wing in better.

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  9. That pool below the little falls is just begging to be fished.

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    1. Mark Kautz
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      Mark isn't that a beautiful spot...holds fish to.

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  10. Many things to like about the fall season. Orange flies are one and anything with maple syrup is another. Another lovely post, Alan.

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    1. William Shuck
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      Bill maple syrup on crushed ice, now that's a treat.
      There's a fly that was created in Maine and is called Maple Syrup...pretty effective to.

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  11. Alan, increasingly I see why you concentrate on small streams. I mostly fish a catch and keep section of the Swift, though I release all I catch unless they aren't going to make it, and that amounts to very few.

    I am not going to turn this post into a rant, but the nitwits that leave trash and bait boxes around which I pick up, brag about the big trout they take home to the freezer, and tonight a guy who plowed into where I was fishing, not only him but his big dog as well. I might have hit my final nerve tonight. Small streams offer the only solitude for fly fishing these days.

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    1. Parachute Adams
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      Sam it's not a rant when you state something that is very true. And people who may find it offensive are probably the culprits responsible for said trashing. Small streams offer places where you won't run into folks like this.
      I must say though I have run into "Bud" in some pretty remote places.
      Keep the faith friend.

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  12. Hi Alan,
    Great post once again, that 1st pick of the bacon and what looks like 'eggy bread' (or french toast) has got my tummy rumbling (I am sat at my desk typing this at lunch time!). Those plunge pools look so inviting - they would be among my 1st ports of call were I to be fishing that 'Blue Line'.
    I had a trip to the Tees yesterday afternoon and had an absolute blast.... 3 1/2 hours fishing about a half mile stretch resulted in well over twenty trout and grayling up to 15". It was warm, windy and bright so not ideal conditions, but the water was very cool and the fish where hungry and on the feed. Only three patterns were used - Hares Lugg & Cree (this years go to wet fly), Wynn's Bloa and a small bead head based on the 3$ Dip (but with CDC instead of deer hair) with yellow Pearsall's and a touch dub of mole fur.
    Thanks
    Alistair

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    1. Anonymous
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      Alistair I love the plunge pool, it's a mystery what lies in it's depths.
      Your outing was a success to the max. Some pretty hefty fish in that catch mix. I'm familiar with the "Wynn's Bloa" but the other two I have not encountered in my reading.
      It feels good to fish.....

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    2. Alan,
      They are both creations of my mind! The hare's lugg & cree came about as I had no Golden Plover feathers so I substituted with some really well marked but soft hackles from down the sides of a cree rooster cape I got from Root River Hackle - the way Chris and Patty have processed the capes means that there are a a few (just a few :( ) spade hackles but quite a few feathers that I guess must make up the root or base of the wing (I think they are called the scapulars?). They are quite soft for rooster hackle so not good for dry flies, however as they had really strong Cree marking I had to use them somehow. I use a butt of olive green thread and add a body of spiky hares ear with an oval gold rib, with the cree hackle you have a very buggy looking fly.
      The 3$ dip is a fly I got from of Matt Grobert's Caddis Chronicles blog.
      Thanks
      Alistair

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    3. Alistair a photo would be great.
      Matt is one hell of a tyer.

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