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Mike Sales
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2011
I enjoy interacting on social media and I enjoy everything about TH-cam. I tie flies for my own enjoyment and I hope to create instructional fly tying videos at some time. - See Official Website - MichaelTheTwispAngler
Glo Bug - Salmon Egg Color
Sometimes called a salmon egg pattern - I've fished with this in Alaska and Washington with great success. On the world famous Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska - I would catch a nice 19" rainbow trout of the wild kind. In the Kenai I would hook up countless times but never land anything because they're too strong. In the world renowned Lake Lenice selective fishery I would always hook up there with a glo bug fished under a strike indicator. I would cast pretty far and then let it drift and hang up on some weeds or slowly tug until it would stop on a fresh water weed or something. Then when the bobber disappears I would quickly retrieve and fight a fish. At Lenice that's what it all about for me. It can be drifted with a split shot three feet above the fly pattern or it can be fished maybe 9 feet under a strike indicator in a lake or something. Now if you have all three still water patterns that I recommend - the red chironomid, the red San Juan worm, and this glo bug - then you've really got it locked up.
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Red Chironomid
มุมมอง 46 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Tied quick and inexpensively - this red chironomid pattern has been effective on a special breed of desert located hard fighting rainbow trout. I would want a hard fighting fish if it was all catch-and-release at the lake. And that's what it was like. Fished 9' under a small strike indicator - not much movement - so it hangs on something - well we could see the weeds coming up - nice and sparse...
San Juan Worm
มุมมอง 49 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This is one of my three go-to still-water fishing patterns. When the chrome fish hit there can be a lot of excitement.
Stimulator Caddis - Yellow - Instructional video with music
มุมมอง 377 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This is how they are tied the old way. The old way is so much better. Yah know - I shopped at the finest fly shops in the Tacoma area. And I'll tell you - this video shows how to tie it the best way. The beginning photo is the upper Elwha River during what appears to be high water. I hiked up there on the National Forest Trail and found good water and hooked up everywhere. It's bear haven up th...
Crane Fly - Gray
มุมมอง 6212 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This might be a good fly here in Twisp Washington State - or in the Methow Valley - which is where we are. In the UK these flies are larger and they call them Daddy Long Legs. Anyhow - I saw these little crane flies buzzing above a side channel under a trail bridge right close to where it dumps into the Twisp River which then flows into the Methow River - all of this is under a mile from my hou...
The Barbershop Fly - Instructional Video
มุมมอง 4314 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This fly was given to me to keep. The barber that was going to cut my hair at his shop - handed me the fly and told me tie a whole bunch and get ready for Chum Salmon season. I learned of Kennedy Creek and some other locations from a book, newspaper, or magazine or something. Kennedy Creek is the only creek I would say is worth while trying. After over 25 years after the fly was given to me and...
Spotted Wing Blue Dun - Instructional Video
มุมมอง 3516 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Hook: D1270 #10 - #14 Thread: Grey Tail: Blue Dun Hackle Fibers Body: Adams Grey Dubbing Wing: Gray Turkey Flat Feather - I spotted gray with a sharpie pen Hackle: Gray Hackle Worked to catch several 10" to 14" Westslope Cutthroat trout out of Crow Creek Lake in the early Fall - this was well over twenty years back. I cast with a fly rod with full floating yellow fly line - across deep water - ...
Blue Dun Craft-Wing - Instructional Video
มุมมอง 2816 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Hook: D1270 #14 - #18 Thread: Grey Tail: Blue Dun Hackle Fibers Body: Adams Grey Dubbing Wing: Thing Wing Material Hackle: Gray Hackle Worked to catch a nice 14" Westslope Cutthroat trout out of the Methow River on a hot day during the summer. I cast with a fly rod with full floating yellow fly line - upstream over deep fast moving water inside a thin foam stream. The fish was released unharmed.
Blue Dun Craft-Wing
มุมมอง 1119 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Hook: D1270 #14 - #18 Thread: Grey Tail: Blue Dun Hackle Fibers Body: Adams Grey Dubbing Wing: Thing Wing Material Hackle: Gray Hackle Worked to catch a nice 14" Westslope Cutthroat trout out of the Methow River on a hot day during the summer. I cast with a fly rod with full floating yellow fly line - upstream over deep fast moving water inside a thin foam stream. The fish was released unharmed.
Thorax Dun - Silent Fly Tying Video
มุมมอง 2321 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Tied on a Size 14 Saber Fly Hook that's the number 7015 Dry Fly & Curved Nymph, special bend, straight eye, 3X long, standard wire, & light bronze finish. I'd only tie certain flies on this type of hook - for me that's pretty much every dry fly - except the McGinty. The Thorax Dun is a real fly pattern for fly fishing - and it imitates a Pale Morning Dun or something. Once you get the pattern d...
Channel Trailer for Fly Tying with TheTwispAngler - showing flies that may have fly tying videos 😀
มุมมอง 1914 วันที่ผ่านมา
In this video we show each fly - that has been developed. 😀
Episode Three - Fishing in the City of Anchorage
มุมมอง 133 หลายเดือนก่อน
Don't you know that a teenager in Anchorage may have few choices for activities outside the home. Well that's how it was for Mike. These stories are pieced together as a bicycle trip and fishing story collection.