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Duane Vigue

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About Duane Vigue

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  • Birthday 01/26/1977

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    West Branch Penobscot, Maine
  1. You cant beat a featherwing streamer for ANY big fish, i.e., browns, bows, brookies, togue, salmon, stripers, blues, bass, etc. Featherwings will catch big fish every time. I use 8X hooks in sizes 2 and 4 mostly, sometimes I go down to a 6 and RARELY do I fish a tiny number 8. Duane
  2. Another vote for the Pentax. Ive got the w20 I think, and Ive been loving it for the last 4 years since I got it. Before that I had a cheap 35mm that went into the drink so many times I lost count. It had been in the salt, fresh, froze, etc. Finally it gave up. When Im using my DSLR for gallery shots or magazine/web site shots, I have an Aquapac bag I bought for it. Was like $120 bucks and well worth it. Duane
  3. Its depends on the magazine. Some prefer JPEG, some prefer RAW, some prefer you send slides so they can scan them with their slide scanner. Its a very vague question thats probably best directed to the magazine running your article. Duane
  4. Ah, ok. That first pics looks like a hoodie big time from behind. Nice "shots". Duane
  5. Great pics. Is that a hooded merganser getting shot? Sure looks like one, but Ive never seen one in a field like that, or is it a different picture than the bird flushing? Anyway, again, great pics. Duane
  6. A basic plastic fly box, one side ripple, one side flat foam with dimensions of about 1x4x8 usually cost about $8 or $10 bucks, which to me isnt that expensive or small. For my featherwings, which us Mainers fish almost exclusively in the spring, I have some specialty boxes that are the size of a briefcase made by Bonnand and hold about 20 dozen #2 streamers each which I carry all my smelt patterns in while fishing from a boat. Follow the link to see one. Duane http://www.anglersportgroup.com/products_d...mp;SubCat2ID=18
  7. Very nice fly. I like the name too, I have a featherwing with the same one. Duane
  8. Same here, and I too cant recall splitshot coming off regularly. Youll lose one here and there, but it shouldnt just be coming off. Also, what type of "hair streamers" are you talking about? Bucktails? What are you fishing for and where? There are guys up here in Maine that will add weight to certain types of flies I mentioned, but youll find that 99.9% of guys tying bucktails and featherwings arent adding weight. With that being said, I have friends who fish for steelhead and kings in NY a lot and they weight all their flies, even hairwing salmon flies, because they are fishing fast water and it has to be on the bottom. But, guys snag a lot of fish like that too, by accident and on purpose, which is why I stay away from the added weight in many instances. Here on the salmon and bookie waters in Maine coneheads, clousers and some weighted flies are used but I think as far as streamers in general, guys use sinking lines more than added weight. Depends on what youre doing, you know. Duane
  9. Im late on this topic, but since I fish "streamer" more than anyone I know, Ill see if I can add anything. Depends on the kind of streamers youre talking about first of all. A muddler, wooly bugger, bucktail, featherwing, etc. Most streamers I fish I dont weight because then youre stuck with a weighted fly that you cant un-weight. Fish either a sinking line, or if its legal, add split shot using a floating line. Thats the easiest and best way to go without limiting yourself to a fly that will always have wieght in it, AND, you can control the amount of weight too. Featherwings and bucktails I NEVER weight, but I do have some cone head muddlers & wooly buggers and I prefer cone head weight over wrapped weight since it gives a better action. Hope that can help. Duane
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