EXPERIMENTS IN THE LAB

Experimenting with some new hybrid lures. These limited edition hand tied lures are half fly and half swimjig. Combining a wide variety of materials from buck tail, krystal flash, pearl chenille, sili legs, saddle hackel, barred zonkers. Still in the field test mode tying a bunch of colors and styles. So far the root beer and chartreuse colorways have been producing good results with local bay and kelp dwelling bass. 

Colorways: Root Beer, Kelp Crab, Red Crab, Chartreuse Flash, Whiteout Squid, Blackout
Weights: 1/4oz, 3/8oz, 1/2oz. 3/4oz, 1oz.

Test Tube Rack: Custom handmade wooden test tube rack

~photos and graphic images copyright Bows & Arrows 2015

 

 

 

 

Underwater Image Making

Lightly Salted

Pacific Coast Skamping* Trip

Winter along the Gold Coast ~ San Diego • Malibu • Ventura • Santa Barbara • Cayucos • Morro Bay • Big Sur • Santa Cruz • Half Moon Bay • Pacifica • San Francisco

Southern California towns blur in my rear view as my eyes fixate on One North snaking her way along side the Pacific Ocean. Strong on shore winds and heavy winter swell slam into the sea wall spraying a salt mist into the air. My Jeep breathes the lightly salted air deep as she down shifts anticipating another switch back section along the edge of a steep Big Sur cliff.  I burn passed all the roadside sunset, Asshole Adams*, selfie photographers to find a good campsite for the night.

To sleep deep in the Redwood Forrest under heavy canopy among the stars, to smell like campfire all day long, to bathe in the ocean, to sweat the beer out at the next skatepark, to find your next campsite in the pitch black, then wake up at first light to the sound of surf cracking the cobble stone beach break. 

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> Graphics: Die Cut letterforms and graphic icon collage
> Swap Meet: 1960's Chevron Map and Texaco Gasoline Economy Calculator

> Trip Glossary:

*skamp • ing  /s, kamp,ing/ (noun) 

 The activity of skating and camping every night on an extended road trip.

*asshole • adams / 'as,hol a,dums/ (noun vulgar slang)

A photography reference to Ansel Adams in which a irritating person takes to long  and many photos making set friends wait for them impatiently. 

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