My buddy Jim Solomon demonstrating the proper way to use your stripping bucket when your not wetting your line along the beach. Pick up plastic trash. Kudos to Jimmy! Photo by Al Quattrocchi
Q tip…
Let’s face it, broken sun glass frames suck!!! I just snapped these taking a heavy backpack off, they pulled my croakies and pinched the frame resulting in a clean break.
But here’s a way to fix them even when there is a clean break.
Using crazy glue, baking soda, a nail file, color marker and Sally Hansen clear polish, they will be good as new!
You use crazy glue to set in place for 30 seconds, once the two pieces hold together, then carefully add some extra crazy glue around broken seam and pour baking soda over the wet glue and cracked edge working all around break point, the baking soda dries the crazy glue super fast and will build up the bond along the broken edge making a more secure bond. Then file the bulked up edges flat, hit with a colored marker of choice and finish with clear nail polish. Bam!
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pic of the week…
Jim Gill with a beautiful 15 pound Peacock Bass recently landed in Brazil on one of my large rattling peacock flies… WTG dude! Photo courtesy of Jim Gill.
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pic of the week…
Photo by Al Quattrocchi
Ending the year with a true SoCal trophy from the beach, Jim Solomon (theflyzone.com) getting it done in our local waters on the morning of December 31st, 2018. It was awesome to watch Jimmy land that beautiful fish. We were actually targeting them, they cruise our local beaches this time of the year when the water gets cold and the perch show up… as Steve Perry once said, “Don’t Stop Believing, Hold on to that Feeling!”
MDR club swap meet…
The Marina Del Rey Anglers Club Swap Meet Directions Here!
Help support the MDR Anglers Club. No fly gear but there will be lots of old salty gear for sale, great for beginners getting into the sport.
Marina Del Rey Anglers club meeting and Swap Meet.
January 10th 2019 – Thursday evening
Burton Chase Park – in the Community Room. 7 pm
At the end of Mindanao Way in Marina Del Rey
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filling the fly box…
Qman working the trim. Photo courtesy of Graham Day
Group pic. Photo courtesy of Al Quattrocchi
Some of Graham’s lovely bonefish flies. Photo courtesy of Graham Day
Table full of activity. Photo courtesy of Al Quattrocchi
A fine fly selection ready for the fly box and flats. Photo courtesy of Graham Day
Pre trim Micro Crab. Photo courtesy of Graham Day
I had five awesome students this past Saturday at Bob Marriotts Fly Fishing store that were ready to conquer six classics flats patterns and we all did it! We got into a few fun techniques like making my original “Pinche Claws”, dubbing fly bodies with synthetics, and making mono eyes, DIY style with Tuffleye Core. I also demoed the classic hand whip finish and connecting your fly to your tippet with a non-slip mono loop! All in all, an info packed, four-hour intermediate class that was lots of fun for me to share. It was my first fly tying series class and there will be more. I hope some of you can get in on the next one. It will be more of an advanced master class with a limit of six fly tiers, we will announce some dates next year. I would like to do one on Popovic’s Big Bucktail streamers (Beast, Bucktail Deceiver, and Bulkhead Deceiver) and maybe one on Crustaceans (red crab, pinche crab and crayfish). I will try my best to up your game and show you many inside tying tricks, so don’t get shut out…happy holidays!
-Al Q
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pic of the day…
The winter temps seem to be dropping, but the local winter bonita bite is still hot. Here’s a beauty by our friend and kayak master, Jim Salazar with a 28 inch bone, landed in our backyard. Photo courtesy of Jim Salazar
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no more bow knots…
Here’s a qualifier for the Cool Sh#t section of my blog! These new plastic laces from Hickies. Great for on the boat or off, they will NOT catch a fly line and make ordinary shoes into slippers, easy to take on or off!
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carp love…
watch this video till the end, while swimming this articulated beast fly to inspect it’s action in the water, we had a surprise visitor take a swipe at the fly, luckily my buddy Jim pulled it away at the last second. I think the carp wasn’t trying to eat it, she was just in love with the sexy action….lol
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flies for the flats….
I will be doing an intermediate/beginner fly tying class on some classic saltwater flats patterns that I have personally used with success. The class is on December 15th, right around the corner at Marriotts in Fullerton. (info below)
The class is limited to 6 tiers and unfortunately just sold out…
We will cover 6 classic flats patterns. A modified Enrico Puglisi/Crab, Squimp, McVay/Gotcha, Fernadez/Snapping Shrimp, Ververka/Mantis Shrimp And Nauheim/Crazy Charlie. Also time permitting, I will demo how I make my DIY silicone crab legs and mono eyes…it should be a fun session, I hope to see ya there.
Next year I will try to do two more advanced fly tying classes: one on big saltwater streamers and baits, may throw in the Beast! …and one on warm water bass flies.
tight lines… -Al
Flats Fly selection tied by Al Quattrocchi.
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flies, sand & surf 