Happy New Year, Denver Fly Fishing Show and other notes of interest.

Happy New Year to you all.

A few notes of interest. Ill be tying this Saturday and Sunday January 8 and 9th at the Denver Fly Fishing Show at the Merchandise Mart. Should be a good time and the show will have something for everyone to check out from new rods, reels, gear, fly tying material and have tons of tiers on hand.

Also I came home to find a big box of DVD's on my front porch yesterday from Aaron Jasper over at Trout Predator online with his new European Nymphing and tying techniques. Got to watch the video last night with Kevin Compton and I think this is great introduction video for new comers wanting to learn the secrets of Czech/Polish/French and Spanish Styles of fly fishing. Kevin will be selling the videos at the show this weekend so swing by and check it out.

Also Kevin will have Dohiku barbless hooks in all sizes and ranges for sale as well.

I will be tying a splatter of bugs from the new Euro Trash Adams, some European Jigs and caddis flies as well, stop by and say hi.

Tight lines

Polish Quills

So you are stripping some peacock quills for your nymphs, dries, mergers, midges or whatever you may be twisting up at the vise. As you know Peacock quills make very awesome looking segmented bodies. But are you stripping your quills with an eraser, your fingers, dipping it in a solution of sorts? Well, if you are and are sick of breaking them or find them too time consuming to strip, check out www.polishquills.com . They are a relatively new company over in Poland that is hand stripping the quills which eliminates the problems of cracking or breaking mid wrap because they are not dipped in some solution that weakens the quill. The quills that they are creating can be used on hook sizes from #12 to #22. They are also producing the quills in 10 different colors to meet all your natural and unnatural needs. Colors available are Natural, Olive, Golden Olive, Orange, Yellow, Red, Pink, Brown, Crimson and Ginger. Each Pack has 25 quills ready to be twisted into something buggy. Check them out and there quills. And the neat thing about them if you do decide to splurge and buy a few packs, is that they have a complete satisfaction program in place, if you don’t like them, send them back within 7 days for a refund. Happy Twisting

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Fly of the Day

From the archives comes the fibet/polywinged rs2

hook: 200R #18

body: biot

Underwing: two fibets

Overwing:Polywing

Thorax: Buggy Nymph Dub

Tying for myself

Got a few minutes at the vise to twist up some bugs for myself.

Where is the time going, Thanks, 2010 in the rearview mirror.

Everytime I sit down to put something on the blog, something comes up so I have not been very active here. I have managed to get out and wet a line this fall and winter a few times, not as many as I would have liked, but each time I did get out, was well worth it. I was also able to get out and carve some turns in the fresh powder that has been dumping snow on the mountain, which will be a good cleansing for the river systems in the mountains this spring.

I have found myself tying flies for myself and customers, had a great year both at the vise, on the water and life in general.

This year I was able to fish Montana, Idaho, New Mexico and my beloved state of Colorado. I want to reflect on this past Year. 2010 was a busy year for me flytying. I did demos all over the front range at several shops, a few Trout Unlimited Chapters tying events, Denver Fly Fishing Show, and was added to the Partridge of Redditch International Pro Staff. I added several new customers around the country and globe for custom tied flies of my designs which is very rewarding.

A few of the patterns that made it into anglers boxes have been my BWO pattern, Stones of the Underworld, Caddis of the Underworld, Bunker Torpedos, midges galore and the newest pattern the ET Adams.

As this year comes to the end, I want to thank the folks who take the time to read Father Natures Life on the Fly Blog and who have contacted me about tying flies for them, the shows, the demos, and Partridge of Redditch for adding me to their Pro Staff. I am looking forward to 2011 in terms of fly tying, and fishing. Thanks to all, hope you all have a Happy Holiday Season.

Cheers,

Chad aka Father Nature!

E.T. Adams

Here is a pattern that I came up with and tested out this past year on the water. It is a basic mayfly nymph and the colors and size can be adjusted to any color scheme to match Blue Wing Olives, Pale Morning Duns, March Browns, Drakes and Tricos.

The pattern is a very basic pattern with very few bells and whistles, but the bells and whistles that this fly does have is what makes this fly count. This is a year round pattern and can be sized differently as well as changing up the color scheme as noted above. The pattern has gone through a very thorough testing phase before I began showing it off recently at a few tying demos. This bug is one buggy bug and made to go in any fly box. The fly was responsible for bring many fish to net this year and will have a place inside my fly box for quite some time. It is one the best mayfly nymph patterns that I have used this year and has a very bright future in my fly box.

The pattern is called Euro Trash Adams or E.T.Adams for short.

I took the name from a Cracker Song called Euro Trash Girl.

Why the Euro Trash associated with it. Only because the most of the materials are of European descent from the Hook, Tail, Dubbing, Wingcase and Lacquer.

The Guts and Glory of the fly

Hook: Partridge CZ hook #16

Tail: Coq De Leon

Rib: Vinyl rib (as an added attractor add a small gold wire for double rib).

Body: Mixed dubbing grey and tan hare

Thorax: Siman Peacock UV Green Dubbing with chopped up deer hair from Fly DK

Wing Case: Siman Magic Shrimp Foil (I give the wing casing a little slab of black marker and hit it with Hends Lacquer Olive.

Wings: Partridge or as the top left corner fly has some medallion sheeting for the wings under the partridge. Works great as an Emerger.

Thread: Black

This bug is tied reversed hook point riding up.

Fly Tying Demos This week

I have a couple of Demos coming up this week. Ill be on hand Thursday night at the Cherry Creek Anglers Fly Tying Clinic twisting up some bugs and Ill be at Anglers All in Littleton on Saturday from 10-12. Come by one or the other and check it out. Ill be twisting up some hook reversed mayflies, a few caddis patterns, maybe a bwo dry or two. Should be a good time. Hope to see you out.

Cheers,