3-17 SS Who's OMR

3-17 SS Who's OMR

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Who is OMR? Our long time correspondent and flyfishing genius, Josh Mills, has quite the relationship with his dad. "Got a great story about OMR, my dad and a fly that he created a season or so past. It's a fly for steelhead, for swinging and usually on sink tips and what he calls it is OMR's dancing lady, it is an intruder style tube fly. When I first saw it I said yeah, right, that thing is not going to work because it is really quite opposite to the construction of normal intruder type steelhead flies where the majority of the flash and the movement is up in the front end of the fly and the backend creates a big silhouette. This is inverted. The first day we go out and he is fishing with it, he starts roping fish. He starts shouting over to me, do you want one of these things? I'm like, no thank you. Finally after his fifth fish, it was towards the end of the day and I had not touched a thing with my flies, I said give me one of those things and no more than five minutes later, he laughed a lot as I hooked into a big steelhead. This fly is very interesting in the fact that it produces. Nothing made him more excited then at the end of January, we were on the Snake, he ends up catching a 12 to 13 pound beautiful late season hen on the Snake, our friend sees the fly, cuts off his fly, puts on the dancing lady my father made, and he hooked into a 10 to 12 pound buck. You should have seen the grin on old man river's (OMR) face.
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