Here’s a really cool product out of Denmark that will make your shrimp flies look more shrimpy! Visit their website prosportfisher for more info and tips! …and take a look at the magazine these dudes put out, it’s pretty cool!
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swimming through the bait ball…
check out this epic youtube footage from the FinAddix crew of a tuna blitz while filming out of the Tropic Star
Lodge in Panama, JJ Slater of Slater Productions films the underwater footage… click here!
beauty in the eye of the beholder
Whenever I walk the beach or fly fish, i try to make a point of picking up the plastic trash that people leave behind or gets washed out through our local storm drains, especially after a good rain. Even though it doesn’t seem significant, I know it helps in a small way and I feel good about it. Our oceans are exploited and are ill. Everyone can make a difference. Check out these two articles about plastic in our oceans, a very interesting artistic perspective. Photos created by Goussin and Le Calvez and Soup a photo series that documents the pollution in our oceans by Mandy Barker. More disturbing photographic images by Chris Jordan!
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sardine fly, a work in progress!
Every now and then you tie a fly that looks good enough to eat! This fly is solely tied with steve farar blended materials, which are basically slinky fiber and angel hair blended together. The result is a beautiful blended fly with color and flash.
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hot tuna!
big payday from mustad for the yellowfin tuna igfa world class tackle record. iphone photo by Al Q
One of the highlights working the Fred Hall show on Thursday afternoon was witnessing the award ceremony for the IGFA world class yellowfin tuna (427 lbs) caught in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico last September 18th by Guy Yocum. Guy used a Melton rod and Shimano Tiagra reel loaded with 100lb test. The tuna was caught on a chunk. Nice one boys!
paulo is the man!
Photo courtesy of James Dywer.
While surf fishing with his daddy last weekend, Paulo, age four, landed his personal best, 14.5 inch barred surf perch all by himself. Wow! We are all proud of Paulo’s catch here at flies, sand & surf! Great job Paulo! I wish I could bottle that smile.
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tasty baitfish flies…
These flies are SF blended swim baits in different flavors courtesy of Al Q. I will be tying thes e at the Fred Hall show this Thursday between 2 – 6 pm in the FFF booth. photo by Al Q
california dreaming…
ok, so I am laying in bed, right. and at 7:12am I get a text, “25 lb. striper” from my fly fishing buddy, Jim Solomon. So i immediately give him a call, hoping this isn’t a prank. Jim answers and says, “i did it I got a 25lb striper, wait to you see the picture” I got the whole play by play and seriously couldn’t be happier for my buddy, who deserves this fish because he puts in the time and effort every week. This is a lesson to all surf fly fisherman, never under estimate the ability to see structure, even if it isn’t very pronounced. the fishing was slow this morning as Jim and Bob Middo worked the beach. Jim spotted one small but defined little cut as he was fishing his way down the beach. He pointed it out to his fishing partner Bob and then fired a long cast into it, on the second strip, his fly stopped and was inhaled by this beautiful striper, which immediately took off towards Catalina. After and epic 15 minute battle which included dealing with a shore break, running down the beach and a dealing with a plastic bag temporarily stuck on his line, surfed this trophy to shore. the fish was photographed and released unharmed. it doesn’t get better than this folks, especially when we shouldn’t be hooking and catching stripers on flies in our home waters…i will be posting Jim’s fly, “The Solly Clouser”, stay tuned… Click here for a pdf on how to tie the Solly Clouser!
fly shop facelift…
here’s the new logo I just designed for my buddy Guy Jeans who runs the Kern River Fly shop up north. We should be seeing more of this logo in the near future once Guy rolls it out into his website and marketing materials. This is just a sneak peak…
the hawaiian “o’io” syndicate…
The Hawaiian Syndicate: from left: Roy Fukushima, Zino Nagasuji, Al Quattrocchi & Peter “o’io” Koga at Marriotts Fly Shop in Fullerton, California.
the new Q “Mikey Mantis” fly in a long and short versions. Soon to be tested on those finicky monster bonefish. ©2013 photo by Al Q.
thanks for those who showed up to see Zino’s great “big bonefish” presentation at Marriotts yesterday at 12:30pm. we had a nice turnout and Zino covered a lot of great information. my favorite part of his presentation was the underwater footage of some of the flies Zino likes to use for the solitary big double digit bonefish that lurk the flats of Hawaii. the thin lizzy was unreal, underwater…we even came up with another pattern based on some of Zino’s feedback which has been entitled the micky mantis. it is really easy to tie and the addition of silly legs as a wing will give this fly some extra movement without stripping the fly, a key element in enticing larger fish. stay tuned for the micky mantis…
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flies, sand & surf 