This creation is the product of a gurgler modification project I undertook awhile back.   I spent the better part of the topwater season one year messing with gurglers, mostly trying to get them to cast better.  Now when it comes to catching fish

The Gurgler was invented by the late fly tier Jack Gartside and is one of those all-around useful patterns than will catch everything from panfish to tarpon. It’s success is almost certainly of the unique “gurgling” style of action that attracts

The obsession with creating the ultimate crawdad began one day while sitting on a high boulder overlooking a crystal clear pool of a high country lake in AZ.  I was taking a short lunch break while I watched as two larger than normal rainbows cruised slowly over the rocky bottom below, slowly meandering