Al Q's "Holy Moley" Sand Crab pattern

he's got it out on his blog, and I don't want to plagiarize, but this looks like a great pattern!

Al Quattrocchi

Al is a big time chaser of corbina, but also has an interest in a variety of species and fly fishing in general.

https://alquattrocchi.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/qs-holy-moley-sand-crab/

Ultra Shrimp

Here is a version of Bob Popovics Ultra Shrimp

Ultra Hair, Pink Hackle, 1/0, mono eyes, Loon U/V thin/thick for the shell

The Betsy

My versions (still in need of some trimming) of Bonefishdick's (yeah, look him up :) ) fly
titled "The Betsy"

There is enough info "out there" on Dr. Google for you to follow.

For now:

I also tied a black version.

These use ultra hair for the tail and collar, Farrar blend for the body.

Blue and White use florofiber for the throat.

Can't wait to fish them!

Whiskered Trout

Again, went searching for the elusive south jersey salmonid: the NJ stocked rainbow trout.

Saw rises and cast my fly.

Result was a first for me: a catfish on the fly!

Fly fishing and things that go "Whoosh" in the Night

Hopefully this will be one of a series of posts about nighttime interactions.

A couple of years ago, I was fishing off my brother in law's dock.

As I was doing fan casts around the dock this early September evening, trying to attract
anything to take, I literally almost was scared into the water as a 'whoosh' went by my
head and a dark figure dove past toward the water surface:

I really never knew these buggahs hunted at night...until then.

Cool birds.

However, last night, I was trying to entice a freshwater bass to hit my bass bug and came across an old friend:

I always encounter these rodents at night when fishing eastern waters. Especially flyfishing.

They love scaring the c**p out of you as they dive for your fly, and swoop by your hear chasing said fly before it hits the water.

I was surprised that there was not more info out on the net (when doing a quick search) but did find this from across the pond but here it is unfiltered....

Bats and fly fishing

• Ireland has nine species of bat, all species are protected.
• Bat favour rivers and streams.
• Despite recent advances people are frightened of bats, especially at night, in the dark on a river
• Of 100 fly fishers in Ireland interviewed 62 had hit or hooked bats
• With an estimated 73 K fly fishing in those years 48 K such accidents
• Ireland has roughly 500,000 bats (approximately) of which 400,000 are Pipistrelles

kind of interesting stats... I do know of anglers who had to unhook bats. I've had several "hits" from bats but no hookups (thankfully).

More green trout

Hopefully will hit the salt soon, but until then it's been fun making quick stops for small fish on the 3wt. Fly rod

The local catch and release ponds have been doing great, the fish are hitting poppers like gangbusters, making flyfishing a blast.  The largemouth bass do tailwalks and really put on a show.

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Fishing for "Bait"

Been fishing for, what my saltwater friends would describe as, "Bait". That is, freshwater
fish that for the most part, aren't much bigger than an adult bunker. Though there are
a few around that meet up with a tog, at least by weight, if not by "attitude" :D

Tried various patterns, but big bubba or bubbette are still alluding me, though I'm getting
smaller cousins that at least put up a decent fight in the shallows.

Another Surf Fly (imitating worms)

Copied from some west coast boards... looks like it will be useful on the East Coast as well....

The Krabby Patty was written up for the San Diego Fly Fishers newsletter ("Finny Facts") in June 2011:

http://www.sandiegoflyfishers.com/BackIssues/2011_06_FinFactsarc.pdf


 
The author now uses "sparkling wine" new age chenille for the underbody on his red version (orange crush on the orange version), and medium palmer chenille in root beer for the over body. He uses "premium" red marabou (instead of the spikier blood strung marabou) for the tail and either B10S or SS15 gamakatsu hooks. He often uses black dazl eyes instead of bead chain, and clear cure goo hydro to coat the thread.

Some compared the Krabby Patty to the venerable Root Beer Surf Rat - although pics don't make them look similar, wet, they do look similar because they both use root beer chenille of some kind with hints of green flash as their main element. Maybe this makes them look like Nereid polychaete worms in the surf ... . Both flies are deadly. Here is a writeup for the root beer surf rat in the June 2011 newsletter ("Reading the Water") of the Golden State Flycasters, San Diego (I usually use a B10S or Daiichi 2546 hook instead of the 34007):

http://documents.clubexpress.com/documents.ashx?key=w5PKSqh7K5mWKTDsfpiSsG0D5GiyAnTX%2FD%2BgPwnWo1LkEvaJqxkYVw%3D%3D

(if that link does not work for you google "rootbeer surf rat" loudat 2011 ) to find the newsletter it's in.

Another writeup on the rootbeer surf rat, by John Wohlfiel of the Golden State Flycasters, is in the Documents section - click on Fly Patterns then on Surf Rat:

http://www.goldenstateflycasters.org/content.aspx?page_id=86&club_id=866560