Tequache
The Tequache, Mexican Spanish for "possum", is a carp pattern. Its based on McKittrick’s Texas Tickler but the hackle and dubbing is swapped for Aussie Possum fur.
Slow Rolled Gold
"Slow Rolled Gold” It was the kind of day where the air itself felt like it had weight. Heat shimmered above the caliche road as I eased the truck down toward the Pedernales, dust trailing behind us like a ghost we didn’t invite. The river was low, slow, and green as a beer bottle and just as glassy. “Doesn’t look like much,” Bill said, stepping out, stringing up his 5-weight like he was prepping for a mountain stream. “She’s got her secrets,” I said, tying on a McKittrick’s Texas Tickler—my own version called the “Tequache”. I’d swapped the hackle and dubbing for some Australian possum fur. A preference due to success with Rio Banditos. Looked like a baby crawfish with a bad hair day, but the carp didn’t seem to mind. The Pedernales wasn’t giving up her fish easy that day. The carp were shallow, tucked tight to the banks under scrubby overhangs and flat limestone shelves. The middle of the pools looked dead silent, and stagnant, but the margins were alive if you knew ...
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