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Mark Knapp

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About Mark Knapp

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  • Birthday 05/02/1961

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    Fairbanks Alaska

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  1. If you out live us all, who's going to change your batteries?
  2. I never said anything bad, only good stuff. Please don't send Squatch over here.
  3. I'm glad you guys are fishing. I was out yesterday with my Nephew, teaching him to trap beavers. We had to cut through 30 inches of ice to find water.
  4. Uh, Oh, are they going to let you out?
  5. It's all very clear to me now, and makes great sense now that you pointed them out. Thank you very much.
  6. You are correct sir, you did exactly right IMO
  7. Those are nice, gives me ideas. If you know, can you list those tools from one side to the other? I don't recognize some of them.
  8. Well, I'm not looking for work right now. I'm not going to be taking in new stuff for a while. No Please. Thanks though, I probl'y should not have mentioned it.
  9. I'm planning on making fly tying tools with handles of all kinds when I am done with my recovery. They will include complete sets of tools with bone, antler and mammoth ivory handles.
  10. The world record where I am going is a 6.3 pound sunfish 17.5 inches long. My biggest so for is 3 pounds on conventional gear. Lots of fun.
  11. Yes Virginia, grass hoppers do sink, I think. The problems are: The fish are deep (25 to 30 feet down) and the target species does not rise to a fly. I have to get flies down to them. I will be away from my fly tying vise so I have to be ready with every fly I will need for a month and a half of fishing before I go. These sunfish are very unusual, they are more than four times bigger than usual and they eat strange stuff. No one has been very successful catching these fish on a fly so, lots of experimentation will be needed. It's a long way from home and there are not many/any fly shops at that location. I need to be well prepared. So far, we don't know of any standard fly patterns that works consistently for these fish, in this habitat. And there's not many people doing this. The good news is; I like this kind of thing, it's really challenging catching three to five pound sunfish. There are lots of real grasshoppers like this in the area, lots everywhere, like an invasion. I have lots of time. I have lots of materials at home. And there's not a lot of people doing this sort of thing so I should not have to watch for people in my back cast. One of the solutions, I think; Imitate one of the most common bug infestations in the area. Match the hatch. I looked on line for sinking grasshopper/locust patterns for ideas. I found two, they were fine but I wanted to develop and tie my own pattern. Here's what I came up with. I tied them with different colored under-wings and bellies...... I experimented with different legs... I tied some on straight hooks, and curved hooks, for fishing horizontally , and some on jig hooks for fishing more vertically. I tied a bunch of each variety. These all sink, I'm not sure if real grass hoppers really sink but I'm not the first one that ever tied sinking hoppers, and I'm pretty sure some do. I know for sure that if you put a real hopper on a hook and sunk it, fish would eat it. And I know the fish I want to catch, at 25 to 30 feet down, are not coming up to meet floaters so I have to bring these down to them. These are supposed to be cripples so I let some of the fillings show. I think the colors (hot spots) will be more attractive to sun fish too. Hopefully, these will work, we will see. I'm writing up an SBS for these, and will post it in the SBS section when it is done, for people that are interested.
  12. You guys are welcomed. Thank you.
  13. Thank everybody. Yes it's still cold up here. We'll have at least two more months of ice fishing. The ice is 34 inches thick and still getting thicker..
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