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What kinda nymph looks like a sulpher before it hatches. i ussually use a PT nymph it works pretty well but wondering if you guys knew something better. thanks

i like to throw barbless but the trout around here in the tailwaters like to run straight at ya like a bullet and jump barbless and those conditions can be a long day on the water. but i really don't see alot of diff in the two if handle properly like others have said.

congrats

shoe one can be made with a few modifications. one of those little 8oz coke cans and a finner piece of cane. and ofcourse thinner bailer twin. that should be light enough for wax worms and bobber fishing.!!

hey travbass2, where ya live in SWVA i am a hometown boy too. I live in tazewell county. i love the new river don't fish it alot but enjoy my trips there. I fish the clinch in taz. and russell county and Little river in russell county alot though. i haven't started smallie fishing much yet this year. i did go to little river one trip and got 5 and 2 over 16". so do you think the new will be down for the trip. i figured it was tore out the frame after all that friggin rain. but get up with me maybe sometime we can get together always looking for a good "guide". thanks

hey after the wings are stripped i say tie some flies outta them!

i put a SILICON floatant on at the bench i buy at wal-mart. find it in sporting goods. made for tents and boots and stuff. has a bright orange cap on it. supposed to be like sctoch guard. but cheaper a can i $3 and change. i spray it in a little lid and drop the fly into the vat. dubbing soaks it up like a spounge. a can will last for ever though because you only spray out alittle at a time. then you have to let the flies dry before putting them in boxes i have a little piece of foam i stick them on. then when on the stream i use frogg's fanny good stuff. excellent for CDC fies. and anything else note don't put the silicon on CDC though gums it up. but soaking a fly will make a para adams float like a cork. just my little spill.

I just bought i new style of hook. it is a wide gapped short dry fly hook. another good thing about it is that it has a black finish. when you tie a dark fly the hook point seems to disappear. should be awsome on the water. i seen them a while back and wished since i had got them but finally ordered them at a hometown shop. this is the tiemco hook that comes in uneven sizes like 11, 13, 15 etc. i bought the 19s for mayflies and sulfers coming up soon. i hope i like them i bought 100 so i better. love any feed back on the hook or good patterns for it. thanks

hey as far as i know there should be stoneys in Tenn. they are here in southwest va about a hour from Tenn. where in tenn do you live? i fish tenn also. i fish Holston tailwaters alot and some mtn streams.

when i fish for pike i am fishing a shallow end of a lake aroun 3-8 feet deep. so when i throw the streamers would a stop and go be better or a throw it out and strip like hell. i am fishing in a belly boat so lots of casting can be killer. another question how about poppers. i have tried dalbergs and some hard bodies the largemouth like them. but no pike, not complaining about the bucketheads though! really appreciated the help guys keep it coming i am green about pike not alot of themin Virginia, a few muskies but those are a patient mans fish had my chance last year on a big popper smallies fishing pulled it away from a "nice" one he scared the outta me! oh well will probably be 10 more years waiting for another chance. but the pike will do until. the state put them in a cold mtn top lake to control the panfish so we have been suddenly introduced to the pike fishing. they are doing great only been there a few years and rumor has it some over 30" have been caught. the one i got was about 20". thanks agian!

I need a good pattern to catch a pike in this warming water season. I caught one last year on a white bunny strip streamer. i have tied some of those tonight in white and chart. not sure really the pattern name just a bunny strip tied in at the front and back and a piece of tinsel wrapped around the shank for the body. really simple tie. i caught one ya one only fish a few times for them in between top watering for the largemouth up there. i beleive i missed a bunch though. i thought they would hit really hard the on i caught just pulled soft and i messed up and hooked him, i had felt that all day. but that is the only luck i had up there. any pointers would be appriciated. thanks guys

WELL HUGH!

hey smalliehunter i have had a ongoing trouble with a rotator cuff myself. hurts like hell don't it? i don't have as much trouble with is as i used to it was a over the handle bars head and shoulder stand off a mtn. bike. should have hit on the head a little harder i guess! after all i did have on a helmet just for that. i hit the shoulder too. completely seperating it. i put it back myself and went to the family doc. he said if i went to a othapedic (SP) he would just want to cut on me. so i didn't it has really improved though. used to be if i fished long at all it would go numb it is also my casting arm too. so i feel your pain. i found a really good product for pain. i am like BDH hate narcs. so won't hardly take them. my mom works at a health food store. i ussually don't believe in herbs and shit but she gave me this and it is great. it is called arnica montana. not sure if the spelling is correct. but it's homeopathic, you lay 2 tablets under your tounge and they disolve. works for me awsome. and you can take it with what the doc has you on too i believe but please check first before. you should be able to find it at a health food store or possibly GNC in the mall. i didn't believe in it either but i am a firm advocate for it now. so if you feel like it try it and drop me a email if ti works. i am no doc. just omeone who has been there trying to help. flymaster

that is too damn pretty to fish with!

hey he is from kentucky he's lucky to own a computer don't knock his grammer skills. sorry Hubb just a shot at ya seeing as how i can about throw a rock to kentucky. PS when we goin fishing.

is that a new brook trout fly? i believe those little natives around here would hit it! i catch more on a big bugger than anything. but just joking still!!

that is too hard core there. what ever happened to gosh bet this would look pretty! trial and error, well mainly error i guess.

2wt size 22 BWO!!!!!!!!!!!! i believe it was and on 6x did i mention!

hey tube where ya from. i hope that matches the bwos there makes a really dark one so try it and see.

sorry no pic i drown my dig camera fishing late last summer. oopps! but that is another story. very simple though tie in the tail of phesant tail tips. them take dubbing very lightly to for body shape. wind thread back to bend tie in peacock herl that you took an pencil eraser to strip the fuzz off of. wind covering the dubbing then leave a little room for wing. tie in a few bunchs of cdc for a wing. or a puff of cdc i prefer the other not the puffs. but you choose which works best for you. tie off make a head and cement. very simple. oh ya before winding the quill wet it save lots of headaches.

this time of year the bwos around here are very dark. so i have been stripping peacock herl and using it for quill body on them with dark dun cdc for wings. i take a dark olive dubbing to shape the body and then quill over it to cover it so i don't have to wrap and wrap the quill. this has been a killer fly for me on holston tailwaters in tennessee. works good either high and dry or just in the film on top as a emerger. put a little frog fanny on it. anybody use that stuff it is great too. just wondering

oh you are brave and asking for abuse with a post like this. but here it goes for me i will be nice. i release 99% of my trout i catch and all of the smallmouth i catch. but that isn't to say when i catch one with that magic size i won't keep him for a mount. but i don't see anything wrong with keeping a few trout to eat. i won't keep any in spec. regs. stream like 12" min. or things like that. but in put and take i will keep a few. i mean very few a year. my wife won't eat it but i like trout. i won't freeze them i like them fresh. but some people even frown on that. I disagree though. i passed a well known guide on Holston river the last time i kept fish and he looks at me and said "well i see you done well today" kinda snotty like. i killed 3 rainbows and no browns they have a special place in my heart. so i spare them. but he acted like i dry cleaned the river. i released probably 10 or better that day and picked out 3 skillet sized 8-12 inch bows. but i guess i wasn't fitting into the fly fishing purist attitude. i have a catch and release sticker on the ride and support c&r all i can but in a river with a great trout population what did i hurt?

tying midges= blind men fishing midges=also blind fishermen i hate midge fishing. however my fav spot that is what is happening the holston river "black fly" hatch. not sure of the latin name as i have mentioned before. don't get into foriegn languages for fishing. no need to. but i know it is a little bitty friggin bug about a 24-30 i have been tying down to a 24 and if they want any smaller they will have to wish on i guess. the holston river trout seem to take the pupa more than the adults i guess they are easier to get. but not easier to fish. but lots easier to tie. a glass bead, black thread and black dubbing or peacock herl. and if you really wanna get fancy alittle piece of dun cdc for a hatching wing.

you guys should have learned that this bunch turns into a hungry pack of wolves when sports are mentioned. so i will forever on ban myself from sports type posts. i could cause a riot! remeber my super bowl post?

small BWO's cdc is the only way to go i hate to hackle little bitty flies end up cussing more than tying