Okay, I'm back from Ellensburg (where I became the sixth recipient of the FFF Washington State Council's Fly Tying Hall of Fame Award, I almost broke my arm patting myself on the back. Actually, I did feel honored, if a bit puzzled about what I'd done to deserve it). Looking around during the show, I saw only a very few tiers tying terrestrials, specifically beetles and/or ants and thought that might be an apt choice for this month's salon. So, c'mon, show us whatcha got. Just to get your creative juices flowing, here are pictures of a winged ant and an ultra-simple beetle, patterns with which I've had considerable luck.
Preston Congratulations on the well deserved Hall of Fame award. Unfortunately I have absolutely nothing up my sleeve in regards to terrestrials. TC
congratulations Preston, lost a bunch of ants in the scablands a couple weeks ago so I've been replenishing
Foam cricket for early summer fishing Doubles as a grasshopper for trout that can't tell the differnce
I'm off on Tuesday for about a week at Chopaka. I hope there will be more ant/beetle/terrestrial suggestions when I get back after Memorial Day. Pretty cool stuff so far.
Although we didn't get as many responses as I had hoped, the three we got were outstanding. For whatever reasons I've chosen Paul Dieter's ant as this month's winner. Congratulations Paul, and June's salon is yours to organize. As an example of the effectiveness of ants in general, a friend took over a dozen trout at Chopaka one day by paddling across to the northeast side of the lake and wading along the shore casting a dry ant pattern; something that would never have occurred to me.
yeah i'd like to know since i ruined may's fishing it before i took a picture. a sweet peacock herl, hackle tip winged ant.
I don't seem to be able to contact Paul Dieter. Can anyone contact him and tell him he's on the hook for organizing the June salon?
Okay, since it's already the 11th of June I'm going to give up trying to contact Paul. Kelvin, since you contributed a pattern why don't you take on the June salon? All that's necessary is to pick a subject and judge the entries at the end of of the month. By the way, reducing picture files to a couple of hundred kilobytes or less results in a perfectly satisfactory image and saves a hell of a lot of time downloading (especially for people like me with slow systems).
a little late, been tied up (no pun intended) but I've been trying to get ready for the upcoming hopper season on the Missouri river.
