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Steelhead Fly
Fishing Etiquette |
| "The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary" defines et-i-quette as: the rules of behavior standard in polite society. In this letter they are simple rules to help avoid conflicts while fishing. Most fly fishermen don’t want onstream conflicts, which are most often caused by someone’s ignorance or lack of fishing etiquette. |
| Rule #1: | Do unto other fishermen
only what you would have them do unto you. It only stands to reason. |
| Rule #2: | Give other anglers their
space. Solitude can be an important part of angling. Be quiet. |
| Rule #3: | Communication can solve a
lot of problems. Talking to other angler can stop conflict before it happens. |
| Rule #4: | The angler who gets there
first has first rights to a piece of water. If he doesn't want to share, leave! |
| Rule #5: | Don't cut the other guy
off. Never get into a run ahead of an angler who is fishing. Some anglers can cover a lot of water in a hurry. Ask if you can follow or go to the next run. |
| Rule #6: | Leave nothing but your
tracks. Leave nothing. If you have to go potty, bury it. |
| Rule #7: | Don't hog the water. Fish through a piece of water in a reasonable length of time and then let someone else fish. |
| Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias | |
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Blue Herons have inhabited every every fishing destination that I have fished except for Kamchatka. They are fish hunting birds that wade the shallow margins of ponds, lakes and rivers. Both fresh and saltwater marshes are also much to their liking. Herons eat a wide variety of fish, animals and insects. They prefer small fish and frogs. I watched the heron at right as he stalked the edge of the Deschutes River. |
| Links USGS Great Blue Heron Nature-Wildlife |
After he had left, I examined the shore line and found it to be exceptionally rich in heron food. Tall canary grass and dead woody debris sheltered a clean narrow, shallow submerged flat sand bar. Then the bank broke precipitously into a slow deep eddy. Along this natural |
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wall grew a dense weed narrow bed. A hoard of minnow fry from 2" - 4" hugged the edge of the weed bed. The heron cruised slowly down the the path between the terrestrial and aquatic vegetation and picked off minnows one by one in fairly rapid succession. An angler can learn a lot from herons. Herons know the landscape of the waters they inhabit in intimate detail. They know where fish live. In many ecosystems herons and predatory game fish hunt the same foods. Someday I will go back to this eddy that herons stalk in the bright light of day. I want to see what stalks this same eddy when the light levels are lower. |
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Grease Liner Steelhead Fly |
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The 1960 to 1980 era will probably be considered the Golden Age of waking fly development in the Pacific Northwest. One of the early pioneers is Harry Lemire of Black Diamond, Washington. He is credited with the development of a fly he named the Grease Liner. Many Pacific Northwest and British Columbia steelhead have |
| been taken with it. It was tied with a black dubbed body, sparse grizzly hackle and chestnut colored deer hair wing and tail. Other tiers copied Harry's fly and added their own variations and modifications. The first significant modification I remember reading about, was in an article by Mike Deeker where he discussed his "Bubble Head" series, which were modified Grease Liners. He cemented the wing buttes into an upward facing scoop that would naturally plow water and make his flies wake without being riffle hitched. In 1982 a guy gave me a beautiful piece of dried un-tanned moose hide. The hair was black with gray butts, about 2' long and very stiff and tapered. It was perfect Grease Liner wing/tail material. We have experimented with many different body and hackle color combinations. The three flies listed below are proven and re-proven each year. They cover most of the summer and fall conditions that you will encounter. | |
| Grease Liner, Black This fly evolved on the Salmon River a small clear Sandy River tributary near our store. It was one of the early spring go-to flies in the 1980's. It is tied with very stiff moose body hair for the wing and tail. The forward sloping wing butts have been cemented and shaped into a scoop that will plow water and help rise the fly to the surface. The Black Grease Liner is a good choice when encountering fresh rested steelhead in clear water over |
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| 47 degrees. It is a proven at-dark fly and also a good choice for rivers that are in glacial run-off. | ||||
| Item | Description | Size | Price | To Top |
| 20620-04 | Grease Liner, Black | 4 | 3 for $5.95 | |
| 20620-06 | Grease Liner, Black | 6 | 3 for $5.95 | |
| Grease Liner, Peacock Why flies that are tied with peacock herl bodies are so effective, no one will probably know for sure. Flies like the Gray Hackle Peacock and Coachman have been in use for 200 years because they catch fish. The Peacock Grease Liner Waking Fly mimics the old Gray Hackle Peacock wet fly pattern colors. It is a proven morning to mid-day fly and is productive in water temperatures over 50 degrees any time of year. |
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| Item | Description | Size | Price | To Top |
| 21005-06 | Grease Liner, Peacock | 6 | 3 for $5.95 | |
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Liner, Orange It's hard to say who was the first fisher to tie the Greased Liner in fall caddis colors. The first I remember reading about was in an article by Mike Deeker where he discussed his "Bubble Head" series, which were modified Grease Liners. He cemented the wing buttes into an upward facing scoop that would naturally plow water and make his flies wake without being riffle hitched. Ours are tied with this scoop. |
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| Item | Description | Size | Price | To Top |
| 21000-04 | Grease Liner, Orange | 4 | 3 for $5.95 | |
| 21000-06 | Grease Liner, Orange | 6 | 3 for $5.95 | |
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ODE TO CADDIS FLIES They build their cocoons of pebbles and twigs And grains of sand and thingamajigs When the timing is right, they leave the streambed Shedding the water, getting airborn instead With dappled wings and plump little bodies They hip-hop the water like tiny jalopies Flying like dinghies with bent or lost rudders They bounce off the water and run into each other Still, they're my favorites, these small jitterbugs Though a little bit clumsy, they can sure cut a rug Filling their dance card to pass on their genes They're simply oblivious to trout on the scene Zigging and zagging both this way and that They appear to be clueless about where they're at Swoosh! comes a swirl, and another is gone Trout always know when the tent wings are on So they swarm by the zillions and will surely survive But it would help out a lot if they would just learn to drive by Jim Highland |
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