Chris Conaty, official “Fly Guy” for Idylwilde recently returned from an annual spring fishing trip.  Its nice to have the “Fly Guy” who is in charge of fly development, raw materials and quality control spend his vacation fishing.  What can I say, the guy is passionate about flies and about fly fishing and being the Fly Guy is not just a job to him but a life time passion that just happened to turn into a job.

Sea Lice and transparent fins = fresh

Recent rains pushed the local rivers high so conditions were not exactly what Fly Guy had hoped for.  Regardless, he put hours of casting in and managed to find a fish.  Actually it is the other way around.  He put a few minutes of casting in on the 1st day and caught a steelhead, then proceeded to do lots of casting for some possible grabs.  When you fish for steelhead, where “getting a grab”,  can be deemed an extremely successful day,  it takes a passionate fisherman to keep coming back even on vacation/ work days.

Double Tube technology developed by Brian Silvey helped  Andy Brown who was fishing with Fly Guy catch this chromer which took the Tandem Tube in Pink and Orange.

One reminder to all of you out there going to the rivers.  Don’t forget to take some time to look around and enjoy the place you are in regardless of how good or bad the fishing is.  The Fly Guy and his best friend David did some looking around and David found this PERFECT set of elk sheds right on the river.   Myself,  I would take finding that perfect pair of elk sheds over a lot of days of catching steelhead.  Luckily for me David gave the sheds to Fly Guy and in an unexpected turn of fate, the sheds will be living in the Idylwilde offices.   Fly Guy and his wife spent hours walking through their house trying to find “just the right place” for these majestic antlers and they just could not part with existing wall decorations to make room for the horns.  From afar I have to respect the quality of Fly Guy’s marriage.  I mean, there just aren’t that many couples I know that can be so in tune with each others taste in art and house decor that can make a decision like this together.  A decision “as one” if you will.  I am okay benefiting from such a strong relationship.

Perfect Set of Elk Sheds - RARE

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