1.08. Artificial Fly.
Any fly constructed by the method known as fly tying.
1.11. Artificial Lure.
An artificial lure is a man-made lure or fly designed to attract fish. This definition does not include scented or flavored artificial baits.
California’s Fish & Game regulations weren’t crafted for guys like me. I represent the ugly underbelly of fly tying – that 1% of fly tiers who read the fine print, that truculent, uncooperative fellow whom wardens gravitate towards – who reads the rules and has always wondered about, “artificial-fly only, single barbless hook” restrictions …
… the guy you see protesting loudest as he’s lead away in manacles.
“Fly tying” is thousands of small finger skills, mostly comprised of wrapping materials never envisioned for a small hook, in a vain attempt to tame them, or copy the imagination of some SOB in a magazine (who claims it’s easy).
Take my Goat Cheese Bivisible above, it’s single, barbless, and constructed by the method known as fly tying. It helps measurably if you wait for it to achieve room temperature before dubbing it onto a floss core, then winding that for the body.
Ditto for that big-arsed Pteronarcys imitation I’ve dubbed the “Gruyere Ghost” – deadly in any color or size …
… and per the above legal in a number of states …
Got any Limburger Limbatas for the Fall River?
Your a sick man Barton…
Sheeesh, Old Issack W. was tying his “Chedder Emerger” and “Whenslydale Parachute” back in the day. Nice use of modern materials,though… 😉
I’m confident you lads would have thought of it once opalescent was genetically engineered into cheap, yaller American… I’m only a bit ahead of the curve.
Keep us posted on how you makeout with ye olde fishcop!!
Having been immersed in slightly more brown water than is safe, you have begun to confuse carp and trout flies. What you have tied is a distant cousin of the San Juan Worm; known as the San Quintin Maggot. Now you have sent Roughfish on a tying binge with intent to commit.
Mmmm, breadcrumb baetis, Gouda gammarus, Stilton suspender, Buzzer du Brie. Pack your flybox and lunch in one go!
I can see it now – a new tournament to rival the famous Jackson Hole One Fly – flies would be limited to what can be made up from the box lunch that is supplied.
That’s not a bad idea, or we can bid on the lunches to raise money for conservation organizations …
I’ll go a double sawbuck on that reuben with swiss …