Strip Set - George Daniel - TCO Store Tour

BRYN MAWR: Friday November 20th 3pm - 4pm: Fly Tying Demonstration: George will demonstrate his favorite 6 Streamer Patterns (Sparkle Minnow, Michigan Fry, Murdich Minnow, Sculp Snack to name four) - free event

5pm - 6pm: Streamer Presentation: George will discuss his streamer tactics & techniques. - free event

READING: Saturday November 21st

12pm - 1pm: Streamer Presentation: George will discuss his streamer tactics & techniques. - free event

2pm - 3pm: Fly Tying Demonstration: George will demonstrate his favorite 6 Streamer Patterns (Sparkle Minnow, Michigan Fry, Murdich Minnow, Sculp Snack to name four) - free event STATE COLLEGE: Sunday November 22nd 12pm - 1pm: Streamer Presentation: George will discuss his streamer tactics & techniques. - free event 2pm - 3pm: Fly Tying Demonstration: George will demonstrate his favorite 6 Streamer Patterns (Sparkle Minnow, Michigan Fry, Murdich Minnow, Sculp Snack to name four) - free event

DONT FORGET! - Rich Strolis

TCO Fly Shop - Reading: Saturday Sept. 27 | 11am - 3pm

TCO Fly Shop is proud to host another one of the industries most creative fly creators...Rich Strolis!
Rich will be showing his Streamer Presentation from 11am - Noon and will then be demonstrating how to tie 4 of his famous streamer patterns (Headbanger, Ice Pick, Masked Avenger and a Triple Juggernaunt) from 1-3:00.
This event is free to the public. 

About Rich: Rich Strolis grew up in the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, cutting his teeth catching native brook trout on the many small mountain streams that littered the hills near his parents house.  As he grew up he moved on to the many rivers of Massachusetts where he fine tuned his skills on the water and later at the vise, tying his first fly at the age of 11.  It was no coincidence that he landed his first fly caught fish on a muddler minnow, something that carved his path in the realm of fly tying.  In his early twenties he moved to Northwestern Connecticut, setting up shop within minutes of the Farmington river, a place he calls home and guided on for little over a decade.  Many of his fly patterns were built around figuring out several problems he encountered on the water with clients or on his own. In time, he branched out fishing dozens and dozens

of rivers and streams across New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the midwest and Alaska, often spending countless hours fishing on little sleep and lots of coffee. Over the past five years Rich has penned several articles detailing some of his patterns in Flyfisherman Magazine and Eastern Flyfishing.   Some of his patterns have also appeared in a variety of other publications including Caddis Flies by Thomas Ames Jr., Flyfishing and Flytying Journal, On The Water Magazine, Flyfisherman and many other smaller lesser known publications.  It’s safe to say that he is passionate about all things fly fishing, always striving for something fresh and outside the box, running the gamut of simple to complex patterns merging natural and synthetic materials.    Although he enjoys every facet of trout fishing, his true love is chasing trophy trout with larger streamers, and he has built a variety of small to larger streamers that do just that.  When not chasing trout you can find Rich throwing flies the size of small animals for Northern Pike, another species that he has grown increasingly fond of.  Rich is currently working on a book with Stackpole detailing dozens of his proven patterns that is slated for release in the near future.

Brad Bohen, Kelly Galloup, and Mossy Creek

I was invited down to Mossy Creek Fly Shop this past weekend, to meet Brad Bohen, and Kelly Galloup. They were both down there doing a tying lesson, and presentations, so Brian and Colby the owners asked if I wanted to come down, this was after we talked for 10 minutes and they realized how much I loved chucking over-sized flies. So after watching, learning, and meeting the 2 celebrities, we drank a couple beers, we supported our local shop, purchasing something I really needed, yet another hat.

Brad Bohen's Musky Fly. Awesome color combo

Brian was kind enough to put us on some private water on Mossy Creek, thank buddy. We got geared up with green grass and temps in the upper 30's, by the time we were geared up and fishing the second hole, there was an inch of snow on the ground. Three hours later we had one fish to hand and 3 others that were smarter than us. We stripped streamers till we couldn't see anymore, and headed back north, out of the snow, not very often do you hear that phrase.

Nice Mossy Creek Brown Trout

Headbanger Sculpin right where it should be

 Naturally, after you watch rad Bohen tie a musky fly, its only right that you go right home and sit down at the vise. So I did :)

Featured Fly - LG Baitfish

After talking about smallmouth bass for 3 days at the Somerset Fly Fishing Show, I had the itch to tie up a new streamer to makes it's debut this summer, or maybe spring for steelhead, or maybe this weekend for trout. Either way I wanted to tie up a streamer. So I picked up a simple streamer that Lenny tied and I really liked it, so I decided to add a couple twists to it and see what happened. Here it is.

Materials:

Hook: 35mm Shank

Tail: Rabbit Strip - White

Body: UV Polar Chenille - Pearl

Back: Rabbit Strip - White 

Collar: Guinea - Red

Legs: Sili Legs - Red

Collar 2: Barred Mallard - Natural 

Head: Rabbit - Dubbing Loop

Eyes: Oval Pupal 3D Eyes 

Step 1: Make a thread base, adding a piece of .030 lead under the shank.

Step 2: Tie in the Fireline about 3/4 the length of the shank.

Step 3: Tie in the rabbit strip at the back of the shank.

Step 4: Tie in the UV Polar Chenille right in front of the rabbit.

Step 5: Palmer the polar chenille forward. Leaving about a 1/4th the shank empty.

Step 6: Bring the rabbit forward, tie down.

Step 7: Tie in a Guinea feather by the tips.

Step 8: Make 2 or 3 wraps of the guinea.

Step 9: Tie in the Sili Legs, but only make them about an inch long.

Step 10: Repeat step 9.

Step 11: Tie in a Barred Mallard feather, make 2 or 3 wraps.

Step 12: Make a dubbing loop with rabbit.

Step 13:  Palmer the rabbit, to form the head.

Step 14: Add a little head cement to the back of your eyes and push onto the rabbit. You are now done