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Get some orange yarn, then get some stout hooks. Do you know how to tie an overhand knot?? If I was you, I'd practice that knot until I could tie blind folded. Okay, you got that knot down yet?? Next step, tie a piece of that orange yarn on that stout hook with that knot you been practicing. Okay, now cut back the yarn a little bit, but not too much. When that piece falls off, get another piece of yarn and tie another over hand knot. You getting the picture??? When in September are you gonna be there?? Air fare from SFO-ANC was $530 RT over the week end, now its up to $618 and higher. Send me your address and I'll send you a recipe that is sure fire. Mind you, it ain't mine, but it caught enough silvers that the fly tying chair of the Alaska Fly Fishers published it in their newsletter. Oh and it is not that over hand tied piece of yarn either, bubba. It will take some real tying prowess and times a wasting.
Bruce, we were partial to sparesly tied flash fly pattern in orange, purple and pink, polar shrimp, battle creeks. bunny leaches in black, orange and purple and some ESLs, but heck, everybody knows they don't work. You know what works? Learn how to tie an over hand knot, I'm telling ya. First year we were up there there was this fella fishing a hole and hooking silver after silver. He was a catching machine. I could not take it any longer and I had to find out what the heck he was doing. So I approached the guy and struck up a conversation with him. Turns out he worked in the finance department of some auto dealership in Anchor Town and was up there on his day off. Almost forgot why i was talking to him- I just had to ask him his secret. You know what he said? "Can you tie an over hand knot???" as he showed me his fly. He wasn't even embarrassed to tell me. Heck of nice guy, he even offered me some of his yarn so that I would be dialed in as well. Gawd, it don't get any easier than that and you don't need any thread or fly tying skills either. That overhand knot came in pretty hand once I learned how to tie it.
By now you probably think I am effing with ya, so wheres them stack of bibles as god is my witness. . You should get a whole skein of that yarn while your at it cause you'll be giving it away when folks see what a fishing machine you is. just don't let them cast over your shoulder in the same hole whiles you are fighting a fish. Miles of water and the only place to catch a dang fish is right over your shoulder as if all of them were holding there in that one spot.
Hope this helps.
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