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LaFontaine’s Buzzball

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A creative use of hackle, originally designed and tied to emulate the schucks of dead midges.

       

The Buzzball was created by legendary fly tier Gary Lafontaine to imitate midge clusters on the Missouri River. We have found it to be just as effective fly fishing here in the Park City area. It’s clearly a variation on the classic Griffith’s Gnat, but adds a second color and a different profile. Featuring just a hook, thread, and two hackle feathers, it’s a simple and proven pattern.

In this great video from Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, he shows you his method for tying a size 20 version of the Buzzball. Tying these in smaller sizes is a productive choice, especially when fishing the Middle Provo River, early season. As usual, Tim focuses on the preparation of materials, so when you tie them in, everything is in it’s right place. After a little trimming, the Buzzball is ready to fish.

  Buzzball
          Hook: Straight-eye, wide-gap dry-fly hook, sizes 14-20.
          Thread: Black Veevus, 16/0.
          Hackle #1: Grizzly hackle.
          Hackle #2: Orange grizzly hackle.
          Tools: Sharp scissors, hackle pliers, whip-finisher

How To | Fly Fishing In Park City

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No Snow | Learn To Roll Cast

Where’s all the snow Park City?

It has been a rough winter, with massive high pressure and little to no precipitation having been the story. However, we are hopeful for a mid season turn around. Keeping our fingers crossed for the moisture to come and keep our rivers in good shape come this spring and summer.

In the meantime, we wanted to share an edit from Rio Product’s “How To” series. We’ve shared a couple of these before and we appreciate their ability to focus and really breakdown specific skill sets in the Fly Fishing game.

This one, is for the beginner to intermediate angler that we fish with so much here in Park City.

So, if you are preparing to come out for a trip or here already take a minute to start developing your form with this useful and effective casting technique. It will help you to be a more effective angler on a greater percentage of water you cover. You’ll get better drifts, you’ll catch more fish and your friends will be impressed!

Thank you Rio!

Visit Park City | Park City First Timers

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We want to thank Visit Park City for including us in their “First Timer Video Series“! We had a great time and we couldn’t be more grateful for the beautiful place in which we work and live. Big props and much love to Visit Park City for being such a supportive local organization. As a small local business we are lucky to have them as an engaged and thoughtful partner in our community. Special thanks to Greg, Ryan and Emma for their patience and help in making this happen!

Wild Trout – A Montana Fish Story

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A RAD film to watch this morning! In the 1970’s, young Montana biologist Dick Vincent discovered that stocking hatchery-reared trout on top of wild trout populations in the Madison River actually suppressed trout fishing. Based on his research, the state of Montana prohibited stocking streams occupied by wild trout populations turning fisheries managers’ attention to restoring habitat quality after decades of pollution, damming, and drying up streams. The shift in focus to quality stream habitat changed the trajectory of Montana’s legendary trout fisheries from a steady decline to world class. Since Montana’s wild trout policy took hold, angler conservationists with Trout Unlimited and its partners have unleashed four decades of restoring streams and the quantity and quality of the cold, clean waters trout and anglers depend upon. Wild Trout: A Montana Fish Story chronicles Montana’s conversion to wild trout fisheries and the profound changes still evident in our beloved trout fisheries.