Fellow Extravaganzers:
As Opening Day for E-13 looms closer and closer, I want to report that I spent a good portion of my last weekend in the Bay Area tying flies, an exemplar of which is attached.
Below the stylus are six of one of my favorite (and deadly) Rock Creek patterns, six bead-headed midge pupas under the moniker of “Serendipity”—these, like the six mayfly nymphs right below them, are subsurface flies designed to imitate bugs in their larval stage.
Caressing the outside of the nymphs are two versions of adult mayfly, those on the left having a darker body (consisting of wound thread) and those on the right, my favorite fly, wound with a light yellow thread for a body, each with “parachutes” extending upwards to help locate the fly as they drift on the water’s upper film.
It won’t be long now until these are attached to the end of my bamboo rod’s leader and a-fishing right in our Extravaganza home waters.
Bueno, bueno, bueno!
Best to all in the advanced preparation for it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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