Kodiak Commando

I think we have a great new chat room but i have logged on many a time to see that no one is there. I think part of the problem is no one knows when to get on at a good time. I was thinking maybe we could have a weekly chat session like Global Fisher. For example every wednesday 10 p.m. eastern.

Any of the sportcenter ones.

If people really concentrated on the important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles.

Women are like halibut, when they are young they are petite and tender, when they are old they are large and hard.

It's gotta be a pink revolution or a bead egg for me. The alaskan steelhead love those flies.

Gotta be a size 6 pink revolution for me.

I enjoy caddis hatches also, especially for big grayling.

That fly is a great pattern for all sorts of fish in alaska but in my experience the way fishinwrench tied it is way to bulky. Very sparse is best, i usually tie no more than 6 strands of bucktail on top or bottom.

I just got back from a trip to anchorage and will have the flies sent by the deadline.

Yeah i have heard about it but it will never happen.

I agree with trout bum. My boss said UAA did a study that said fish don't feel pain as much as peta wants you to think but they do feel a difference but there is a difference between feeling the hook and it hurting you. The peta study proved the fish felt the hook but many studies say it's the equivalent of being poken in the mouth by a dentist after your mouth has been numbed, you feel the poke but it doesn't hurt. Peta never proved that the fish hurt just that they felt the hook. Of couse they won't mention that.

Peta has done some other wacky things lately to alaska like asking the govenor to ban eating king salmon which would devastate everyone who lives in alaska, they even refered to him as govenor of alabama, apparently peta needs to proof read.

By the way i have a funny story about peta. I happened to talk to one of the editors for peta magazine who staged a protest and a fishing pond during fishing for kids day in utah. He said fishing was inhumane and was immoral and i noticed he had a Jesus Saves bumper sticker on his car. I asked him about it and he aknowledged he was a catholic. I then told him that according to the bible jesus and his diciples were fisherman. He cursed at me and walked away

I have done just the opposite. I have had luck for salmon with bass flies i have seen. Many bass and salmon flies such as bunny flies, alaskabous or poppers are attractor patterns and seem to attract many species since they don't have anything to do with representing what a species of fish eat.

I'm also a impressionistic type of guy. A lot of the fishing i do is freshwater salmon fishing where salmon don't feed so when they hit it's probably due to insticnt and curiostity. Some of my best flies are a hash job of different bright material that doesn't look natural at all.

I have never tried shining beads but do know some lure fisherman use toothpaste to take the dullness of metal lures, maybe it will work fore beads.

It seams to me it matter on a lot of flies i tie. Epecially thunder creeks and sculpin patterns. I fish a lot for bows and dollies during the smolt migration and a thunder creek with eyes seems to do better than one without. Same with sculpins wher a big pair of eyes seem to entice the rainbows if fish for whether it's on kodiak or some other part of the state.

That's got to be the coolest fly i have ever seen

I Will still buy from cabelas espciallys since i am on a low population island that doesn't have the selection most people have. I also agree with dble haul, most big companies have dirt.

Chance for my first fly swap, hmmm, I'm In

I'll be tying the fly H.P. needlefish.

What's the address of the swapmister?

The only thing i worry about is fumes. I try not to tie with softex or nail polish aroung my parrot.

wwww.akflyfishers.com not just the fly of the month section.

www.flyrodreel.com

Elk Hair Caddis

Adams

Stimulator

In that order.

It works great for me as for dries it will work if you use foam. Can't remember which forum member told me this but get a square piece of foam cut a hole in it just big enough for the fly and put the fly in. This way the material won't get crushed.

Good job smallie, your hard work is appreciated!

It varies but right now it have to be 6mm rifle ammo, some dvd's and a few video games.

If you are ok fishing with egg patters bring lots of glo bugs for char.

Siestafred, don't bother with scuds at that time on that river.i would fish there in june for kings with egg sucking leeches, alaskabous and bunny flies. If you are going with the lodge just ask them what to tie.

The only fish i target in alaska with scuds are rainbowsand grayling. Generally i never fish anything smaller than a size 10