Messy Fly

A messy streamer that all fish love. Fur, feathers, and if you want, add some rubber legs.

MidgeMans Midge

Here is a heavy stonefly midge that the master midgeman put together. He said he made it extra heavy for those deep hiding trout in faster water so I decided that Id give it a dive flag - safety first.

Negative Flies

Here are a bunch of flies sketched out and photographed in the negative.
I also need to apologise. For those that follow this blog, you might have noticed a lack of substance in most of the recent posts. No fish photos, no trip reports.  Well rest assured that those kind of posts will be arriving soon. Coming in the month of July I plan on doing quite a bit of fishing and with any luck I will have more to blog about than just a painting or a sketch a day.  But for a few more days the art will have to do. Enjoy...

Bastard Midge

Done in ink and colored pencil, here is a simple bastard midge.

Winged Ant

Here is an inked winged ant done late in the day.

Summer On Flies cont.

Bigerrfish and AYOTF Summer on the flies continue with this new fly we call the Fire Chicken.  This painting is a 8 x 10 and all watercolors. Check out bigerrfish.blogspot.com for the recipe and a tied example of this fly done on a #22 size hook.
I think this fly will fish, but I leave it to you

Small Brookie

Here is a quick brookie sketched out and a bit of watercolors dropped in. My buddy Jason hooked into a lot of these guys in a recent trip to the WV mountains. Check out his videos at KillbilliesOutdoors.com http://www.killbilliesoutdoors.com/fishing-video.html

Yellow Tail

Here is a stimulating fly that might  make a trout rise and investigate.

Redhead Soft Hackle

An 8 x 8 in. attempt at a soft hackle fly.
Also asking my fellow Bloggers out there for a bit of information on gsmnp. Planning a little trip I hope will come together for a back country trip next month to the shores of Lake Fontana.  If anybody has inside knowledge of this area and is willing to share it, shoot me a line.
Of course if I can't make it to the park, there is always the waters of the Chattooga.

Random Atlantic

I was lucky enough to catch the US soccer game yesterday and enjoy a truly dramatic game winning goal in the final minutes. In a must win or be eliminated, the us rose to the challenge to quench to group.  Having played four years of highschool and a few in college I try to keep up with a few teams around the world and needless to say, yesterdays victory made my day.
Anyway, enjoy this fly and try to catch the next game on the 26th.

Green Humpy

Here is another roughly sketched fly, this one, a green bug, was done with watercolor pencil and pen.

Here is a quick sketch of a dry fly done with pencil, pen, watercolors, and beer. Yes it is slightly more erratic than most posts but hey, what do you expect... Enjoy

Crane Fly

I hope all you fathers out there had a good day. Mine was a great day with the chance to hang out with friends and family and watch a bit of golf. A little side note - It was tough to watch our SC native drop from -6 yesterday to post an end score of +4 and choke in the last round. Phil, Tiger, and Else, couldn't even get it together. I visited that pebble beach two years ago... NO I DID NOT PLAY IT, are you kidding? One I could never afford it and two I think they would throw me out before I finished due to BAD golfing.. No, I visited it while out there on a family vacation. It is truly a great looking course.
Also, For those that follow this blog you might just notice a new button near the top of the page that will direct you to another page. Buy A Fly has come as the requests for how to purchase one of these flies has grown. I have settled on a opening price for these small pieces of art of a mere $25 plus $3 shipping. The larger painting of fish are not part of this offer. Enjoy your day all you fly addicts

Orange Atlantic

Here is an Atlantic Streamer with a little orange and yellow thrown in for color. I also got a few stickers from Cameron Mortenson over at
thefiberglassmanifesto.blogspot.com the other day. A nice large one I will be adding to my collection currently clogging my Jeeps rear window. He runs a very nice blog from the midlands of South Carolina and if you got minute and haven't visited his site, drop in and tell him A Year On The Fly sent you.

Christmas Downwing Wulff

Here is a variation of the standard Wulff sketched in colored pencil. Taking the advice of a fellow Blogger, I looked beyond the standard dry royal and 'tweeked' it. I believe I am going to try and tie this variation myself and see how it handles. Basically its your royal wulff with a red segmented green hurl body (christmas colors), red head and a bit more wing to cast a bigger above water silhouette.