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May 31, 2013 / Last updated : January 19, 2025 Lance Hankins Fly Patterns

Hevi-Beads 2013 Test Run …

This Spring at the Great Alaska Sportsman’s Show I watched a demo for a product being sold through Mountain View Sports called Hevi-Beads. Back too them in a minute… Now anyone who knows me very well knows that Rich and I have not been great fans of the practice of using beads for trout despite […]

May 5, 2012 / Last updated : January 19, 2025 Rich Johnson Fly Patterns

It’s Fry Time!

  For most Alaskan fly fishers spring brings melting snow and thoughts summer fishing, with (hopefully) sunshine and green things growing everywhere.  But some of us have discovered we can have frys with our spring. Salmon eggs laid last fall have been hatching under the ice, slowly developing into alevins (yoke sac fry). As ice […]

March 18, 2012 / Last updated : January 19, 2025 Rich Johnson Fly Patterns

Tubular Smolt

The Tubular Smolt came from my desire to have a fly that imitated the young fish I grew up seeing in the shallows of lakes. In my younger days we had small Flatfish and Rapalas for our ultra-light spinning rods. Once I started fly fishing I missed that basic minnow shape, and the desire to […]

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