This week I am off for spring break (I am a high school teacher) and
I am in the fishing mood! I tied up a bunch of flies Saturday and
Monday (weather or family obligations kept me from fishing).
One of Monday's family jobs was helping my daughter get her own
website built (www.wishberrie.com) so she can sell her "Name
Art" (check it out, she can do fish and flies for fishermen). This
was a stretch for me since I have never set up a domain name and
hosting before. I don't do HTML but my Mac has some web authoring
software meant to work with their .Mac site, but I figured out how to
load it to her site using an ftp program. Anyway, I'm pretty proud
of myself (and my daughter's talent).
Now that I know a little more about this stuff I am going to spiff up
my homepage in the future. I'm thinking of a "what I am tying" page
to give recipes and instructions for whatever fly has caught my fancy
recently. The last couple of days I have been trying to make some
chub minnow patterns to use at Strawberry when the ice comes off. I
tried a variety of styles and settled in on the "Thunder Creek"
bullet head style that looks good and is a very easy tie.
This morning looked like a perfect day for fishing, but my wife
hauled me out (again) to look for tile for our basement (after the
last flood we've decided to go with tile instead of carpet) I don't
know why she wants me to come along... I have found dozens of tile
styles that I like, to me they all look like very similar light,
earth toned tile, but to her they are "too yellow" or "too brown" or
"too pink" or "not light enough. I think she drags me along just so
she can say "no" to anything I like! (and no, I am not color blind.
I can see the subtle tints she sees, but I DON"T CARE!!!!)
(For the recored, after 31 years I am still madly in love with my
wife. I just don't like having to pick out paint, furniture, carpet,
tile, etc. with her. ESPECIALLY when I could be fishing. I think I
share this trait with many other men...)
After the ordeal by tile, I finally went fishing this afternoon on
the Weber River The Weeb' is running a little high but there was a
side channel that was wadeable with fish rising. Most of them were
small, but there was one big nose that kept popping up. I must have
caught 10 of the little fish but couldn't fool big nose. Still, it
was fun, dry fly fishing.
Tomorrow I might dig out my pontoon boat and hit one of the local
reservoirs that are newly ice free.
I have been tying RS2s, BHPT, BHGRHE, and Mohair buggers (Denny
Rickards style with grizzly died burnt orange and Arizona Simi-Seal
Mohair) and the afore mentioned chub minnows using a Denny Rickards
pattern, as well Thunder Creek and Clauser patterns using a variety
of materials.
Tom
My Daughter's Name Art website: www.wishberrie.com
Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd
Webshots Albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav
