Posts Tagged With: #ondafly
pic of the day!
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!”
Enrico Puglisi materials day…
Save the date: I will be doing a FREE in-store demo at the Pasadena Orvis Fly Shop in a few weeks of some of my favorite local fly patterns using EP (Enrico Puglisi) fly tying materials and showing you how easy or complicated you can make fly tying. LOL Actually the materials are very easy to use once you learn the proper techniques and have the right tools to keep thing simple.
I will tie a modified Surfin Merkin/sand crab (corbina are right around the corner folks), a shad (freshwater bass), a squid (everything in saltwater eats squid, even me!), a anchovy/sardine (local inshore fav) and a bluegill (Large Mouth Bass).
It should be fun, I hope to see you there and hopefully some new faces too…
Cheers
-Al
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Tags: #corbinapatrol, #flytying, #ondafly, enricopuglisi, flyfishingisfun, PasadenaOrvis
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let’s talk hookup…
I had the great pleasure of hanging out with our buddy, Pete Gray (host of Let’s Talk Hookup) this past Sunday to talk saltwater flyfishing on the Mighty 1090am for two hours. Rocking Rick Reda was unfortunately not in studio, we missed him, he was offshore on the Royal Polaris pulling on two hundred plus pound yellowfin tuna, LOL, hey, someone has to do it. Anyhow, if you missed the early radio show on Sunday, here it is on the archive podcast, hope you enjoy! Tight lines…
-Al Q
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Tags: #ondafly, #saltwaterfly, letstalkhookup, mighty1090am, petegray, saltwaterflyfish
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come fly with me…
Al Q working the beach. Photo by Jon Nakano.
I will be speaking tonight at the Long beach Fly Casting Club and doing a basic presentation on Surf Flyfishing the Beach, plus some shooting head casting techniques (The Tango), which can be used for fly fishing off a boat as well and I will be tying my “Qs Beach Bug” surf pattern. Hope to see ya tonight!
Al Q with a bull redfish from a recent trip to Louisiana a few weeks ago. Photo by Al Quattrocchi.
Also I will be on “Lets Talk Hookup” Sunday morning on the Mighty 1090AM out of San Diego to talk shop with Pete Gray about Saltwater Flyfishing. Tune in if your up early from 7am to 9am.
-Al
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Tags: #alquattrocchi, #ondafly, alq, flyfishing saltwater, Saltwater flyfishing
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Qs thin lizzy…one of my go-tos
the original recipe….published in Fly Fishing in SaltWaters…this pattern was developed after my friend Zino told me about the large bonefish in Hawaii that were feeding on lizardfish. He needed a fly that would imitate them. I went to work on the vice and after talking back and forth, I came up with this pattern called the “the thin lizzy” named after one of my favorite bands, LOL. It was intended to freeze on the flat once cast and let drop in the hopes the bonefish would discover the fly.
here’s the thin lizzy in action, note the proper weighting system that allows this fly to do a head stand and remain motionless as long as theres’s not too much current …video by Zino Nakasuji.
a nice Hawaiian bonefish landed on a Qs thin lizzy, photographed by my friend and fellow angler Zino Nakasuji
weedless and beefed up version for calicos, redfish and other species…photo and tied by by al quattrocchi
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Tags: #alquattrocchi, #flytying, #ondafly, hawaiian bonefish, qs thin lizzy, saltwater fly
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Save the date…the Qman is coming to a beach near you!
photo and design by Al Quattrocchi
We are going to the big pond! I will be doing the Southern California fly fishing club circuit this summer. For those of you that might want to try your hand in some saltwater beach fly fishing, I will try to take the pain out of it and break it down so you can be safe and understand all you need to know to DIY it and have fun…hope to see some new faces! 🙂 I will also have my new fly design, “Come Fly With Me” long sleeve shirts available for purchase, supplies are limited…
Club Dates:
Santa Barbara Fly Fishers: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
Fly Fishing Club of Orange County: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017
Pasadena Casting Club: Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Golden State Flycasters: Monday, July 17th, 2017
Wilderness Fly Fishers & Sierra Pacific Flyfishers: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
Sespe Fly Fishers: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017
tight lines…
-Al Q
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Tags: #alquattrocchi, #ondafly, #saltwaterflyfishing, flyfishthebeach, flyfishthesurf
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save the date…june 3rd
The 9th Annual Carp Throwdown brought to you by Conway Bowman and me is happening Saturday, June 3rd 2017 at Carp Headquarters, Lake Henshaw in San Diego. If you have never participated in this event, it is a blast and one of my favorite fishing events of the year. Its the place that the best carp fisherman all converge to highlight their skills and get drunk, LOL. Only kidding! Some of the best people I have ever met are at the CTD for sure, great group of guys and girls. There will be music and popcorn on Friday night and we have an amazing raffle to help support our good friends at Healing Waters. Thanks to all of our wonderful sponsors that help make this possible. Hope to see some new faces this year. Cheers
-Al Q
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Tags: #carpland, #carpthrowdown, #ondafly, bowmanbluewater, carp throw down, carpmecca, flyfishcarp, lakehenshaw, sandiegocarp, sightcastcarp
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culver city art walk, this saturday…
I hope some of you guys at this Saturday’s, Culver City Arts District’s Art Walk from 2pm to 6pm. I will be selling some of my fly fishing artwork and fly creations. I will have a few Gyotaku prints from my 12# line class world record calico bass (largest to date caught on fly) for sale.
I will also do some of my original colored pencil hand fly sketches (5×7 printed card stock, suitable for framing)
…and a few hand tied anchovies and squids in sardine cans…first come, limited supply (couldn’t eat enough sardines to make a lot more! LOL)
Click here for more info: http://tornadocreative.com/events/
Participating Artists:
Caroline Beghin-Kircher
Kevin Bradley
Jerolyn Crute Sackman
Ruth Katzenstein Souza
Diana Mausser
Nancy Nimoy
Al Quattrocchi
Chris Rohloff
Jeff Smith
Gary Steinborn
Joni Takeshita
Alison Wright
The event will take place in the new Helms Design Center, on the Washington Boulevard side of the historic Helms Bakery complex. 8745 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Free parking at the Metro Station and in the Venice lot at the Helms Bakery.
There will be drinks and light snacks available and rockin’ live music from Par Avion. (our favorite surf band!)
Please invite your friends and share this event on social media. We look forward to this artistic collaboration and hope to see you all there!
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Tags: #culvercityartwalk, #flyfishingart, #helmsbakerydistrict, #ondafly, #paravionmusic, #tornadocreative
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flies, sand & surf 