Hi Charlie,

Sorry about fowarding your earlier message back to the group before 
adding my questions below. Fingers are just moving too fast today I 
guess.

I'm intrigued to hear about the propeller-head fly you used on the 
Stilly. Some German flyfishers I ran into up in Alaska a couple years 
ago were using propeller flies to really tear up the coho holding in 
a tidal estuary before heading upstream to spawn (the coho, not the 
Germans ;-)

Where'd you find the little propellers to tie 'em with? Do you put 
something hard (like a bead) right behind the propeller to let it 
spin freely and keep it from cutting into the thread head?

Thanks,

Kent Lufkin


>Fished the lower Stilly from 12 to 4 today thinking the silvers would be in
>by now.  What did I find?  Still full of pinks, but I'm not complaining, had
>my best day of salmon fishing ever.  Eight landed, two more foul hooked and
>I missed another three or four.  Another fly guy on the other side was doing
>at least as well.  The gear guys just off my shoulder (those guys love to
>fish close) seemed to land them non-stop for about an hour, got tired and
>left..        
>       Fly of the day�. Bead headed chartreuse wolley bugger with white
>palmered hackle, and a propeller on the front�.
>
>Tight lines my friends,
>  Charlie

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