Boxes...

Caddis flies




Midges and tiny dries.




This is the I have on all trips, has a bit of everything

My favorite of all hatches in Montana, PMD's

Rainbow Warrior.
At some point I will put up all the boxes with favorite dries, attractors, stones, etc.

This is a sexy fly I got out of Frontier Anglers catalog called Allison's Neon Gnat. This is a tiny bastard about size #20. I tie it in olive and a rootbeer color. Last year on the Weber we hit the whities with this one and the 'bows with the olive. Haven't fished the rootbeer ones yet.

Cheesman Emerger. It looks a little too buggy right now but I will trim off some of the extra stuff coming off the thorax. I tie these in the #20=#22 range with black or olive body.

Haven't fished these but just finished a half dozen today. The Psycho Prince tied on #16 or #18. Plan on using these soon as maybe a golden stone, yellow sally imitation.

Purple Psycho Prince. Haven't used this one yet.

This is where the magic happens. The day was too pretty to go out and fish...I stayed home instead and tied up the patterns above and a few more. Still need to fill up some more boxes. After more tying today I need to get to the fly shop and get material for some articulated stuff. Those Sage rods in the corner look pretty sweet, huh. The arsenal includes an SLT 9' 5wt 5pc, Z-Axis 8' 6" 5wt 4pc, and a TCR 9' 8wt that will hopefully get some use in March in Idaho. I recently sold a rod that in my opinion, can't be bear for the money, the St. Croix Legend Ultra 5wt. I traded my 6wt to an ebay store in Idaho for the Fishpond Shooting Star and will soon replace the 6wt to throw those articulated patterns. I love my Z but may trade sell it for an equal valued 6wt without the fighting butt. No work tomorrow so if'n I get more bugs tied up then I will hit the Weber.

Fishing

Been thinking about fishing a lot lately, in between saving lives and dispensing mercy at the hospital. Got the fly tying station back in the bedroom and tied a few the other night. Planning on fishing tomorrow so hopefully I'll have some fish porn to add to this fishless page...the time is comin'...

More paintings...

What's left of Monida Montana

Looking across the Kenai River in AK at the Russian River Ferry.

Rainbow trout face. This one is sold.

Had an awesome time on Saturday at Sterling's place. Hunter did well at the "Ice-breaker" event. The deal was that teams of one adult and one child would compete in a series of events. Also, the kids were supposed to try and get donations that would go to Sterling's business. Hunter made the bracelets shown above and I sold them to co-workers and friends/family for 5 bucks apiece. Hunter made about a hundred and fifty bucks, more than enough to pay our entry into the event. He also collected over two hundred bucks for the donation. At the end Hunter won both grand prizes...for the most in donations Hunter won a Mossberg 12 ga. shotgun. For winning the kids shooting contest (and he got lucky 'cuz there was a couple kids that prolly coulda' outshot most of the adults!) he won a free guided boar hunt! I don't know who was more excited, me or him! Dave was pretty interested in the hog hunt and after discussing it with Ster, will accompany us on the hunt in the next couple months for his own pig. It was funner'n'hell to be out there with everyone and thanks to Sterling, Bruce, and Cody for putting the whole thing together.

These shots are Dave, his son, Taylor, and I on Ster's Corrine property. We did jump a couple ducks...wounded one goldeneye, bastard kept diving. I must'a shot 4 rounds at it. Dave finally put it out of its misery but we couldn't get it out from under the ice. In all we got 9 phez.

First duck shot by me, a goldeneye that apparently is too full of mercury to eat...Ster's dogs had fun with it! These were from Saturday and Monday. The Bobwhites and Chuckars were birds for some of Ster's clients...Hunter made a few buck setting them out on Ster's property.