Merry Christmas

Gold Brooch Fly Pins – Santa’s Little Helper

Santa’s Little Helper is fashioned from a  Christmas theme Atlantic salmon fly pattern I came up with several years past. Though it’s never caught a salmon that I know of  I’m certainly sure it could. The gold brooch fly pin copy certainly will not hook a salmon. It surely will fetch some glances and admiring comments when displayed on hat or coat.

Santa’s Little Helper displays warm Christmas colors.

I just hope it fetches some Christmas Cheer. Merry Christmas to all!

Gold Brooch Fly Pins – The Feather Merchant

Feather Merchant fly pin in box.

Feather Merchant fly

 

A real classic. A Ted Trueblood designed steelhead fly pattern.

Gold Brooch Fly Fish Pins

The Alaska Mary Ann gold fly pin with body complete, awaiting attachment of the wing.

Chief Needahbeh awaiting the completion of a feather wing.

Completed Alaska Mary Ann steelhead fly tied on a 1/0 gold brooch pin.

Classic Chief Needahbeh Streamer tied on a gold brooch fly pin.

Three Minutes to Land a December Rogue River Steelhead

Found this fresh fall steelhead in a good high water run on the upper Rogue River. Recent showers have swollen the flow of the river, but the water remains clear. The fly was one of my new stonefly nymph patterns, the “au natural Carpetbagger Nymph.”

Rogue River December Steelhead, Al’s Special Gold Brooch Fly Pin

December 2nd Rogue River chrome and Cabela’s Spey rod. Rio heads and sink tips.

Hooked up in the high, grey water of December. December steelhead on my mind.

Al’s Special gold brooch fly pin. Al Knudson was an early pioneering fly tier of the early 19th Century. He was one of the first to use large flies for winter steelhead. Knudson’s streamer patterns are little remembered today, but surely would fish just as well now as they did in the old days.

Green Butt Skunk – Gold Brooch Hat Pin

Green Butt Skunk – A real classic tied on a gold fly pin hook.

All steelhead fly fishermen recognize the classic Green Butt Skunk steelhead wet fly. Celebrate the season with the pattern tied on a gold brooch hat pin.