The FlyFish Fanatic

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The 2010 Olympic winter Games will be in Vancouver, Canada (Where I live) in less than a month. I will be working as a Security Supervisor at the games and will be working 40-80 hour a week at the games so more than likely I will not be making many (If any) posts during that time.

If I have time, I will post a few times, but I just wanted to let my readers know that there will be a lack of posts during the Olympics and Paralimpics.

In the mean time, get out and do some fishing, there are a bunch of places and different spieces of fish that can be caught at this time of year including Citthroat Trout, Bull Trout (Char) and winter Steelhead.

Try some of these places;

-Steelhead, Try The Squamish River, The Stave River, The Vedder, the little Cambell.

-Bull Trout (Char), try the Vedder, The Squamish

-Cutthroat Trout, try the Harrison, The Little Cambell, many of the backwater sloughs of the Fraser River (Nickomen, Mariah, etc…)

I WILL be back with a vengeance after the Olympics are done. Stay tuned, after the Olympics as there will be some really GREAT additions to this blog including Weekly “Friday’s Fly” as well as at least one instructional video per month (Hopefully 4-6 per month) including videos on Tying, River and Lake tactics, Equipment maintenance, knots, etc…..

Have a great time fishing in the next few months.

Rick Passek “The Flyfish Fanatic”™

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Recipe;

-Hook, Size  (Mustad 34011)

-Thread, 3/0 Black

-Tail, Pink Marabou

-Body, Black Crosscut Rabbit Strip

-Collar, Pink Marabou

-Head, Dumbell Eyes

-Flash, Light Pink DNA or Crystal Flash

-Pink UV Dubbing behind the eyes

Tie in your thread, and tie on your Dumbell eyes with a figure eight tie in.

Tie in the Marabou tail and the pink Crystal flash, About the length of the hook

Tie in and palmer the Black Marabou, leave some space behind the eyes for more marabou

Tie in a Pink Marabou Feather by the tip

Palmer the hackle forward and tie in some Pink Crystal Flash

Dub a bit of Pink Flash Dubbing to hide the Black thread behind the eye.

Whip Finnish, and add some Head Cement or Zap a Gap.

This again is a GREAT winter Steelhead fly that I use in Faster water. This fly can also be tied without the eyes so that is can be used in slower waters.

Fun Tying

Rick Passek “The FlyFish Fanatic”™

Recipe;

-Hook, 34011 Size 4 (Mustad)

-Thread, 3/0 Black

-Tail, Golden Pheasant

-Body, Black UV Ice Dubbing

-Hackle, Black Cock Hackle

-Collar, Fire Red Schallapen

-Over Collar, Guiena Fowl (Red Large Dot)

Tie in your thread and form a small thread ball where you tie in the tail to help it sit more upright

Tie in your hackle, due the body with the UV Dubbing making sure to leave room at the head

Palmer your hackle up to where you stopped with the Dubbing.

Tie in your Schlappan and wrap it around to form a collar making sure to stroke back the fibers every turn

Tie in the Guina hackle, wrap 2-3 turn making sure to stroke back fibers every turn.

Whip Finnish the fly, add head cement and you are done. This is a Great Winter pattern for Steelhead, and I have caught quite a few Coho Salmon on this fly as well.

Fun Tying

Rick Passek “The FlyFish Fanatic”™

The Muddler Minnow is one of the best Cutthroat and Coho Patterns EVER made. In this weeks “Friday’s Fly” I will be tying a Variant that I have found to be GREAT for Winter time Cutthroat Trout. The tying steps are no different than the regular Muddler, the only difference is this one uses different colored Mallard flank.

The Recipe is;

-Hook, Size 8 (Straight eye if you have one.)

-Thread, 6/0 Olive

-Head, 1/8″ Gold or Copper Bead

-Tail, Dyed Mallard Flank

-Body, 3/64″ Uni Mylar (Gold Silver)

-Underwing, Dyed Olive Mallard Flank

-Overwing, Deer Hair

Add your bead, then Tie In your thread like normal

Tie in a small piece of the Olive Green Mallard flank. Then, tie in the uni-Mylarwith the Gold side UP!

Bring your thread back up to the Bead and then wrap the Uni-Mylar in overlapping turns to the bead.

Tie in a small piece of the Mallard Flank for the wing. It should be close to the lenght of the tail.

Cut out a clump of deer hair, stack it, and tie it in just behind the bead allowing the small tag pieces to flare out.

Trin the Flared out pieces to form a small head. Also, cut out some of the Deer hair wing to make it a bit on the sparse side.

Add a few drops of head cement and you are done.

The only part of this pattern than can be a bit tough is the tying in of the Deer Hair and the trimmng to form the head, but even these are not that hard.

Take your time with the first few, and in no time you will be tying these up in your sleep.

Fun Tying;

Rick Passek “The FlyFishFanatic”™

I am Selling my Spratley that I bought 2 years back. Here are the Details;

-10′ (Medium)
-1 (20lb) Pyramid Anchor with 40′ of rope
-1 (15lb) Pyramid Anchor with 40 ‘ of rope
-Floor Carpet for all three sections
-2 Scotty rod holders
-3 Scotty Anchor Flush Mounts (One in the Bow, one on each side of the Stern)
-2 Scotty Anchor Locks
-2 Swivel Seats
-Paddles

The Boat is Used, so there are some scratches and it is not as shiny as it was on day 1, but for a 2 year old boat, it is in good condition.

I bought it 2 years back for Just over $3000 with most of the Items listed with the exception of the Pyramid Anchors (Had Mushroom Anchors)

I am also selling the trailer, I had it custom refit to be able to have the boat on top while having room for storage under it. The Trailer was bought in June at Home Depot for $700 and them the Refit to accommodate the Boat, Total cost was $900.

I have also Posted this on Craigslist;

Boat Only, $2000 (On Craigslist for $2200)
Trailer Only, $500

BOTH, $2200 (On Craigslist for $2500)

Call Rick at 604-722-0491

Located in Cloverdale (64th & 184th)