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Everything posted by navigator37
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Great link and interesting flies. Thanks Cyprinid.
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I was at the fishing section of a store recently and picked up some 2/0 Gamakatsu worm hooks. They are very strong and needle sharp. The hook point is pointing directly at the eye, so I bent it just a hair upwards. What do you guys think? This fly will be as close to weedless as I have ever tied as the bucktail and the bend of the hook serve that purpose. Strange looking fly I made but you could throw this thing into thick weed beds and fish it through the reeds hopefully without hanging up. I am going to try some this year in heavy cover. The Gold chenille is wire wrapped on it as well.
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Here's a passage about sunscreen from a site. The harmful compound in it is called oxybenzone. I guess the FDA was suppose to have dealt with this compound in sunscreen but for around 20 years hasn't addressed the concern. " The fraction of oxybenzone that is not absorbed into the human body often contaminates water, washed from the skin during swimming and water play or while bathing. Wastewater treatment removes only a fraction of this sunscreen chemical, resulting in detection of oxybenzone in treated wastewater, in lake and sea waters due to recreational use or to discharges from water treatment facilities, and even in fish. Studies show oxybenzone can trigger outbreaks of viral infection in coral reefs and can cause feminization of male fish. Despite significant ecological concerns, there are no measures in place to protect sensitive ecosystems from damage caused by this contaminant."
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1/0 or 2/0 standard 4x streamer hooks???
navigator37 replied to navigator37's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
Found the Orvis site. Their pike hooks look pretty good. Thanks again for the help. -
1/0 or 2/0 standard 4x streamer hooks???
navigator37 replied to navigator37's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
Great site Chuckingfluff. The other one Luremaking.com is great too. It helps to find these Canadian sites but now I'll have to watch my budget even more closely! -
1/0 or 2/0 standard 4x streamer hooks???
navigator37 replied to navigator37's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
Tidewaterfly...thanks a lot. I'll check those models out. -
1/0 or 2/0 standard 4x streamer hooks???
navigator37 replied to navigator37's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
I'm tying pike flies without long tails. I found problems with tail wrap on short shank hooks. I have a pattern now that involves rabbit strip palmered down the entire length of a hook shank with only a small tail end. Red Wolf hooks are something I can check out too. They are as cheap as dirt but they come in good sizes. Daiichi 2460, 61, and 62 long shank aberdeens are a possibility as well. Just don't know if they are tough enough. The 10x Carrie Steven's are great but they are a little too long and are pricey. Maybe you are right and I'll end up just making do with what's out there now. -
Hi all. Does anyone know where I can get 2/0 or 1/0 streamer hooks with only a 4x shank? Not saltwater, stainless, or salmon hooks. Just regular like mustads R74 or similar. Years ago I use to buy mustads in 2/0 but can't find them anymore. There are lots of 1/0 and larger streamer hooks out there but they are all too long a shank, stainless steel or salmon fly hooks. All standard 4x shank makes seem to only be around in size 2 or smaller. Anyone help me here on a place?
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Just a question. Is the majority of your time tying spent coming up with new patterns or do you mostly stick with your favorites and traditional flies you know work? I always end up with more ' freak ' fly boxes every year....experimental flies for pike and trout. I assume a lot of you would tie up Hare's Ears, wooly buggers, adams, etc...flies that are proven to work. It's gotten to the point that I have two fly boxes with traditional textbook patterns and about a dozen ' freak' fly boxes. Is this common?
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A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by navigator36: Beetle Brush
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Good ideas there. An egg sinker painted bright red or yellow with a cup hook. And so evolves the cheapo sinker/dubbing whirler...
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Just thought I'd bring this up today. Tying at my desk today, I thought about buying a dubbing whirl tool to replace my broken one. The one use to have had a wood base to hold and wasn't heavy enough to make a tight dubbing twist. An idea popped into my head to just make one quick and it turned out to work brilliantly. Cost...about 15 cents. Maybe someone did this already here but I thought I'd share it. I took a medium size bell sinker for bait fishing. I then took a small nail and lightly hammered it down the top along the swivel to keep the swivel from turning. I then got wire snips and cut the swivel loop to fashion a hook out of it for attaching the dubbing loop to. Super easy and the bell sinker is nice and heavy to spin a tight dubbing thread. Try it.
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Jsflyfishing.com and Anglersworkshop.com are where i get most of the glow stuff from. Other glow things are from craft stores.
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I'll probably whip a few more of these up then. If I can fight to get the right holidays from work, I usually head up north. The Churchill River is where I want to go this year...Otter Rapids. Haven't been there in a while. There is a rock face there where you can stand and fish for sauger and walleye 10-30 feet out at some eddies. Packed with whitefish swimming right past you as well. Jan Lake as well which I have been going to since i was a kid. Lake of the prairies is foreign to me so I am ordering a depth map as well as a few other maps. Because of the forage base in Lake of the Prairies, many fisherman report lots of monster pike coming out of there. That really gets my blood running as well. Fished Wellman when I was a kid and caught a 3lb smallie there which resides on my wall to this day. That's the only time i ever fished it. There are a few reservoirs in Sask that I would like to try as well. Oh so little time!!!
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As I mentioned on another thread, I haven't seriously flyfished for walleye with a fly so this is kind of a theoretical pattern. Will it work well? I plan on targeting some walleye next year and will try some of these. I'll fish them deep on a fast sinking Rio deep 7 line. When brought up into the sunlight, it should charge very quickly for another cast.
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A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by navigator36: Glo Bugger
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Great looking bugger. I'm working on a glow bugger to try for walleyes next year.
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That perch pattern would kill at some of my lakes for pike!
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Anyone close to this area of the Great Lakes? What's your take on this? To combat the threat of Asian carp infesting the water, they have dumped 2,200 gallons of fish poison into a canal there. They have taken loads of dead fish out so far and plan on getting about 200,000 lbs of dead carp out of there. I guess if they have to, they have to. They say they have to and have the government go ahead on it to protect the natural fisheries there. These things grow to over 4 feet long and around 100 lbs. Hope they can localize the poison spread. My Gosh!!! Watch this video to the end. It's infested with them! Link... Carp invasion
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It looks good in the water. One thing that frustrated me about bunny tails is the tail getting wrapped around the hook bend with a sloppy cast or whatever. Some flies i tie now are very long shank with the rabbit palmered along it.
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A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by navigator36: Flashabou Bunny
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Went out today and fished a river channel for some whitefish and tulibee. I saw them there late at night the day before with a flashlight and wondered if they bite during spawning this time of year. It was a nice evening and when dusk hit, the fish came in by the hundreds some of them right by my feet. I was using a 3 weight floating with a strike indicator and every fly I could think of. Hopeless..... I tell you it was pretty frustrating with all those nice whites stacked up like that and they wouldn't even look at a fly. Under the ice or in spring they are easily catchable but at least now I know that during spawning these guys are impossible. Or was I doing something wrong? Oh well. It was a great evening there and it was nice to get away from things for awhile. OLD HAT...Yeah, I just got skunked. Pics below.
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'Carp on the Fly...A Flyfishing Guide' Excellent book about carp on the fly. Very well put together. It gives you a great view on how carp behave and which ones to target with a fly. ' Pike on the Fly' Awesome book with stories and perfected techniques to catch the water wolf himself. Good photographs.
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Picasa...Free software and not too big. It's what I use. It's great.
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I know you don't see much on glow flies around but I got the itch to tie up some glow flies for walleye and goldeye. Some I guess consider this cheating like adding bait to a fly but I had to tie some up today for the first time. I'm going to try them out for curiosity sake next year to see if they are any good.