Fly Tying Video: Kelly Galloup’s Articulated Peanut Envy

Rolling on through the awesome Galloup line of streamers, the Articulated Peanut Envy is somewhat of the little brother of the Circus Peanut.  It is a little smaller, a little lighter, but still fishes tremendously well.  I personally like this fly drifted on a twitch as much as anything, it has a great sink rate which isn't too fast and isn't too slow and it moves like crazy in the water.  I do a slight modification compared to the commercially tied fly in the fact that I tie mine on keeled hooks (a bent shanked hook) to get this fly to ride hook point up in the water without having to add dumbell eyes.

The Articulated Peanut Envy.....

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

We are from the country....we really are.  But the North Woods and a GPS don't always agree........

Fishadelic Foto Friday......RECALCULATING edition.

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Kyle Kosovich with a demon of a Driftless Region brown....crazy teeth on that thing's tonuge.

Fishadelic Foto Friday.....Demon Brown Trout Edition

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

To be dead honest with you.....I hated to even mess with this photo.  Aaron Scott shot one of the best sillouhette against a sunset photos I have ever seen and messing with genius can equal bad stuff........sometimes.

Fishadelic Foto Friday.....one awesome photo edition.

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2011 Greatest Hits Video.

2011 brought with it some pretty epic adventures.  From massive flooding that all but killed the Spring guiding season, to incredible water after the floods, monstrous fish chasing streamers, and a trip north in search of (vainly in search of) Musky.  I couldn't have dreamed up a better year--period.

Thank you guys so much for watching these videos, fishing with me, and hopefully having  a great time right along with me as I flew through this year....you are the reason I guide, shoot video, and have this blog.

2011 Greatest Hits......

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Fishadelic Foto Friday....evening boat ride edition.

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Musky - Are - Big......

Fishadelic Foto Friday...I think we're going to need a bigger boat edition.

Also, see me STANDING 'IN' this net on the Lake Vermilion Video here...

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Fall, 2011 Video

Looking back what can I say about Fall.....I thought we were shot, dead.  The main culprit, LOW water.  You see, there are two different distinct portions of the Fall season-what we call "Pre-Spawn" and what we call "Post Spawn."  Pre-Spawn is obviously early Fall where we are coming out of Summer, Summer generally means little to no rain so we have low, dead clear water.......and this is the time when 90% of people book guide trips.  The Fall colors 'are' really pretty but man, fishing can be uber tough!  The leaves drop, as do temps, as do guide trips, and then we usually start to get rain......rain, our saving grace.  BOOM fishing comes back, this is our Post-Spawn fishing.  This is a two-fer; with rain we have obviously better water, and post-spawn fish are trying to come back from a hard spawn--that is a double whammy that we LOVE....and exactly what happened this Fall.

As I type this the river is slowly coming down from a GREAT rise and I am getting ready to pound the banks with Justin Spencer from Sunburst.....the Winter is looking very promising.

Here you go guys, Fall 2011....a video for the ages (ok, not really)

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