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New Tying Video: Galloups Articulated Fat Head/Heifer Groomer

Brian Wise — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:30:43 +0000

The newest tying video....The Fat Head/Heifer Groomer. First of all, 2 names? Yeah, Galloup flies are pretty notorious for switching names after they have been out for a little while. The Bottoms Up being another switch from what Galloup referred to as "Tips Up" for a looong time.

Directly speaking, this fly is awesome. It is fairly specialty as in you really have to fish it on a sink tip as it has NO weight--AND it is absolutely best fished from a boat, wading just doesn't do this fly justice. What you first notice is that it is a lot like his famous "Zoo Cougar" only articulated, but then when you really look at it, the Heifer Groomer is a lot easier to tie than the Zoo Cougar, palmering marabou and stacking deer hair is basically all you have to do to tie this awesome articulated streamer.

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Recipe:

Rear Hook

Hook: Umpqua U301 (or any 3xl streamer hook)
Body/Tail: Marabou (palmered)
Wing: Mallard Flank

Articulation Point:
Beadalon
3 Glass Beads

Front Hook

Hook: Gamakatsu B10s #2
Flash: Flashabou
Body: Marabou (palmered)
Wing: Mallard Flank
Head: Deer Hair

Fly Tying Video: Kelly Galloup’s Articulated Peanut Envy

Brian Wise — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:44:01 +0000

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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2011 Greatest Hits Video.

Brian Wise — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:57:53 +0000

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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Fall, 2011 Video

Brian Wise — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:51:23 +0000

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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North Fork of the White River Summer 2011 Video!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:00:55 +0000

Right this second it is in the low 40's, wind blowing like crazy, and the leaves are almost all gone. This Summer however was EXACTLY the opposite, crazy hot...NO wind...and did I mention Crazy-Hot? I had one of the best Summer's I can remember in a long time, fished with friends a TON....watched my eldest become a "real" fly fisherman, and then I watched him take the next step and start to do what he wanted to do in the sport (which happened to be throwing streamers on an 8wt) AND I got some great video of the biggest brown I have had caught since I started making these videos..SCORE!!

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Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:19:51 +0000

Four-Hand-Brown

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:17:42 +0000

Another....Big......Brown

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:30:30 +0000

ANOTHER big brown from the North Fork of the White River!

Fishadelic Foto Friday!!

Brian Wise — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:27:45 +0000

One of the best years of big fish on the North Fork of the White I have ever seen....

Fishadelic Foto Friday, ANOTHER big brown edition.

North Fork of the White River Winter 2010 Video

Brian Wise — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:42:06 +0000

For the past few years the North Fork of the White has been blessed with absolutely stellar water, all-year-long. Literally, for those years we didn't see the low, clear water that summer, fall, and most of all, winter can bring. 2010 would be a totally different story and we actually got to see the river at normal and low levels all winter. Low, clear water is usually associated with poor fishing but it honestly opens up possibilities that higher water just can't bring. We were able to wade in the river, don't get me wrong, you can wade the North Fork of the White at ANY time...but...low water brings the ability to be aggresive with your wading which opened up even more possiblities with new(er) techniques (mostly Euro-Style nymphing) and CRAZY numbers of fish.

Now it is Spring, those cold temps are gone (for the most part,) and we have AMAZING water, but it really was good to see the river more at a level that we saw for so many years.....though I will not be welcoming low, clear water back with open arms.

So here is the Winter Video for 2010-11....a great winter of fishing.

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