When not rolling La cosa nostra style, strongarming the local shop keep for the latest Umpqua offerings, we sometimes feel the urge to break out da vise and produce killer bugs created simply to slay fish. Our experience has been the uglier the better, and this could very well be spawned from Teasdale’s experience with women.

Now that the wiley bitch of spring is almost here, waters are warming and fish are starting to move out of thier wintering holes and into the shallows to feed. We will start introducing our bigger, narly’r, freakish patterns and rejoicing to the sounds of screaming drags and autonomous, ubiquitous boners.

As slum dog millionaires of the neighborhood turd canals we prefer to stalk fish in the shallows and target mudders and rooters as a collective penchant, and as a result we’re compelled to arm our brethren with some of our most volatile stank water ammunition. A tactical approach is preferred - a single bug tied with some long light flouro to enable an extremely delicate and non intrusive pitch into the drink. We have found that tying in a bit o’ flash, and alot of extra hackle…maribou, and legs creates a trigger for shallow water fish scanning the flats. It seems that when a bug is presented in the 4 to 10 inch radius of the fishes narrow frontal view and it creates a small “ploom” of silt….it is a mad attractant to foraging swine.

Here’s a couple of our deadly bugs (with the exception of the last, less than masterly, good only by name- carp fly)…

And if we’re feeling lazy that day, we might make you our tying BITCH…

This man lived (but just barely).

Who ever said the Primalfly dudes weren’t nice guys. Shit, we provided the tying materials!