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British Columbia, Canada
Long time fly fisher, mediocre fly tier. Grew up fly fishing in Alberta and interior BC, then went to the coast for a steelhead trip and stayed for 7 years. Back to the interior as of summer ‘25.
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Eats
Steelhead Dynamite
A Steelhead variant of Vince Aubin's Dolly Dynamite
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Clouser Minnow Variant
A Clouser variant that I always have in my box. You can tie this with any colour, but find predominantly pink has the best results.
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Floating Mylar Minnow
Top water fly with exceptional results in salt water esturaries. It isn't a popper, but is very sporadic when stripping. The head is foam and body hollow which holds an air pocket until your next cast. As far as I can tell there isn't another fly like this and I haven't come up with a name for it, so open for suggestions
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Steelhead Bug
Simple bug using a heavy wire hook. Great during high water on Vancouver Island rivers when the fish are a few feet from shore
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Purple Whistler
Great beach casting fly as the chain bead eyes will take a beating off the rocks. It also whistles as it's zipping past your head
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Mickey Finn
Fantastic for salmon off the beach and rivers.
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Clouser Mickey
Great beach and river fly for when you need a little more weight
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Green Butt Purple
A hackle tip variant of the Green Butt Purple.
Tag - Holographic Green Tinsel (or green silk)
Tail - Golden Pheasant Tippet over Topping, both red
Body - Bright Purple Silk Floss
Rib - Medium Oval Silver (wound counter to the body hackle, locking it in)
Body Hackle - Natural Heron and Bright Purple Silver Pheasant, wound together from 2nd turn of rib. (Can sub Blue Eared Pheasant for Heron.
Collar - Teal
Wing - Four white hackle tips, tented slightly.
Cheeks - Jungle Cock
Head - Black.
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