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davidmhol

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  1. Thanks SD. This confirms what I suspect. I'll let you know the outcome!
  2. Don't you find that the "last" ones are the best!!
  3. Hi. the current Sportfish catalogue has a surface lure (Hugh Falkus style, with a small treble built-in behind the tail) page 54. I've never fished with these, but I believe they are pretty exciting to fish with, especially since you fish them at night! Good luck - hope the water is right!
  4. Guys. I take it all back! Looking through a current Sportfish (UK) catalogue, in the Steelhead section I found (under the Egg Sucker Zonker - purple and black, and Golden Bullets - black, olive, and purple) Egg Sucking Leeches!! Please note - for those coming over to the UK, you may not be allowed this fly on the more exclusive chalkstreams!
  5. Haven't smoked in years, but when my (ex) wife was trying to give up she used patches. I went to work one day, felt sick, dizzy, got worse as the day went on - eventually found the patch that had transferred itself from her to my left buttock overnight. Symptoms were a bit like when you fisrt tried a cigarette. I'm here to tell you that those things really do contain nicotine!!
  6. Wow! Krystal eggs? Egg-sucking leeches? You guys are on another planet! And I feel guilty if I fish a mayfly with a long tail!!!
  7. Woolly Buggers are used extensively in the UK on lakes when fishing for rainbows and browns. I'm pretty sure that few fish them as anything other than a general attractor pattern, yet I believe they were designed as a general imitative pattern, and they imitate, amongst other things crayfish (and plaese correct me if I'm wrong someone!). I've identified 3 rivers which I fish which have a resident population of crayfish. I've identified the fly I want to use......... I'll keep you posted! Thanks for the advice
  8. Thanks for the welcome everyone! Cheers, David
  9. davidmhol

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    You could also try one of the two flies I can tie reasonably well, Hares Ear. Here's how it differs from the usual tieing....... Use fine gold wire for the rib, use hare's ear fur for the body, use olive thread, and tie in sizes 12 to 16. Don't weight or add gold heads etc. Tie as normal, with a slim body, but dub the thorax more to make it a little bulkier. tie off the head, varnish and leave to dry. With a needle, pick out the dubbing so the fly has a "woolly" appearance. Closely trim the body, starting at the tail, up to the thorax. You now have a slim-bodied fly with a fluffy thorax. Time taken to make - about five minutes for everything. Fished best either at a rising fish, or pulled sub-surface in front of a rising fish. If I can work out how to place a pic - and my camera will focus that small - I'll send in a photo Cheers, David
  10. Interesting posts about crayfish........... In the UK we have (i think) one UK species, and one farmed species which (as an escapee) is in many of our waterways. The escapee is a red, larger than its UK cousin species, and is easy to spot. On the Dove we seem to have fish far bigger than the river or available food would suggest, so I did little searching on the web. what do you know? The Dove has a good head of crayfish (in fact, my local canal, built maybe a couple of hundred years ago and used to ferry freight around, also has crayfish! We don't use crayfish imitations much on our fly-only stretches of river. But I wonder how a small crayfish imitation might do? I wonder if the time has come for a specific crayfish pattern to be utilised in my fishing What do others think? Cheers, David
  11. Hi all, I'm based in England (midlands). I fish a VERY small stretch of the Derbyshire Dove regularly - for browns and grayling. Fly only, and I tie a few of my own (inexpertly!). Our trout season starts 18th of this month - the excitement's building! Cheers, David
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