Most versitile material?
Like Kudu said, Marabou.....and pheasant tail....and I tie a lot of panfish. bass flies because there just isn't that much trout fishing in North Alabama...lol...imagine that...there is one place wher |
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Beginner flies for down south?
This is my first post. I received my fly tying kit and played with it a little but have not tied my first fly yet. I finally figured out how to correctly whip finish so I feel like I am no |
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Clear Cure Goo?
These UV resin shouldn't be that expensive
This I completely agree with. If you do some research on the UV cured acrylics industry, you find these goos and goops and slops ar |
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Marabou Leech patterns
I just got a dubbing brush device. One of my first projects is going to be an experimental maribou leech. The brush used will have a mix of black, red/brown, and purple maribou strands with appropriat |
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ADVICE : Hiwassee River and surrounding
ADVICE : Hiwassee River, TN and surrounding
Any info on suggested PDF files, maps, books, atlases, forest road accesses?
I dont necessarily want your honey hole, just a way to find my own. In accorda |
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FTF Video: - Kirk Dietrich - Redfish on Top
Thanks,I really enjoyed the video, so much I watched it 2 times . Really nice boat, a little overkill for here in central Alabama , of coarse we just have bass, bream and crappie, but I'm thankful |
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RBF: Help for a complete noob!
Hey everyone, I am a complete beginner to rod building. I am looking to build a crank bait style rod for using from shore and hopefully from a boat in the not so distant future. I am moving to North |
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Kayaks & Flyfishing
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Everyone's advice has been extremely helpful. It seems that a kayak (in whatever form) is the better option for |
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Suggestion on Fly lines?
Hello all. For a little back ground I fish for mostly bass (sometimes saltwaters such as redfish and speckled trout) from cold winters to hot summers for bass on my 8 wt here in Alabama. My cortland f |
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February 2012: Flies from the Vise
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Articulating Tandem Baitfish Pattern
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alabama fishin
alright, so im headed down to alabama for the holidays, and i will be able to fish a small pond. i was wondering whether these bass would be hitting an average streamer or am i going to have to use |
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Central Florida Hatches?
in the Panhandle, north of Panama City and south of the state line, there are lakes with enormous Hexagenia hatches in late May through early June. The bluegills get as selective as any trout anywher |
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Learning the hard way
Cream, looks good to me!
Stippled, you could make a dozen of those, 6 ea. LSU and Alabama and put them up for auction and probably make enough to retire! or at least go on a nice vacation.
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Turkey Quill Minnow
This is from years ago, one of my experiments in turkey quill minnow making but on a SS hook. Fishing off the coast of Alabama with Bonito feeding all around us and no flies in the box working, I deci |
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Turkey Quill Minnows
Fishing off the coast of Alabama one year, we were throwing all sorts of flies at feeding Bonito from small to big and clousers to deceivers. I decided to try this fly I had in the box - one of my exp |
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Leaf-Footed Bug
those things completely ruined my tomato crop the last year I was in Alabama. Yours looks real enough that I would smash it, bomb it with insecticide, hose it down with gas, and light it on fire. T |
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Tunes at the fly bench?
Mostly stuff to get me into a fishing/outdoors frame of mind. right now down in the rod/fly shop I have currently in my 6 Disc CD changer...
Soundtrack from "A River Runs Through It"
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Cicadas
The 13 year periodical cicadas are supposed to be emerging any day now in my area. Brood XIX AKA The Great Southern Brood is supposed to be a big one. From what I hear they’ve been spotted all over |
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Fly Fishing and Tying Journal
Because of the tornadoes in Alabama, Books a Million says they can't get Fly Fishing and Tying Journal. Anybody read it here? What is the new Patent Pattern contest and when is it due? |
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Cypert's Foil Covered Pencil opper
Nice fly... but the originator was Walt Holman of the Tennessee Valley Fly Fishers of Huntsville, Alabama...I first saw Walt's foil covered pencil poppers in 1984 at the FFF Southern Council Concl |
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Shellcracker Flies
QUOTE (Kirk Dietrich @ Mar 21 2011, 03:58 PM) I second what Fred said about the patterns you have. Although, I've been told by some veteran bream fishermen that my Squirrely is the best b |
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tail materials????
QUOTE (fish-n-golfer @ Mar 1 2011, 10:40 AM) THANKS FOR ALL THE REPLIES, I AM TYING FOR BASS, CRAPPIE, AND BREAM ONLY, SO I GUESS THE COLORS ARE A LITTLE LESS IMPORTANT THAN FOR TRO |
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pike fly swap #2
From Alabama. However, I am living in CT now. I teach high school biology.Mike |
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Tis The Season - Hunting Trip Commentary
Sorry Deeky, I am living in Nova Scotia and the only deer I have seen here look like the swamp deer from the Florida Keys and Glades....think big German Shepherd...nothing like the lower Alabama/ nort |
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largemouth rods
Get a 9 foot 8 weight. Cut the tip off at a foot or so down and put a top guide on. Get a 9 weight "bass" or "pike" taper line. Cut off the tip of the line just as it starts to lev |
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Need Help :)
Thanks to all of you for the advice but i fish for Bass and I was using my fly rod a week or two ago catching some bream and i caught a little half pound Bass. It was really fun catching it and I live |
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Squirrely
Kirk's correct. Down here in LA, that's not Los Angles or Lower Alabama, his "Squirrely" has been in our boxes for close to 25 years, 'cuz they work!Kyle |
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Road Trip Pictorial
I forgot to set the clock on my camera so the time stamps are not right sorry for that in advance[attachment=26115:sunrise.jpg]Sunrise the morning we left [attachment=26116:003.JPG]Arriving in Kentuck |
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Screw TSA........
Here is a funny story that happened to me with the TSA......Myself and a group of my fellow brothers in blue were going to Talladega for the spring race last year, We were on a lay over in Cleveland a |
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Missoula Montana
(PS- I hope you don't ever have to go to Alabama at all... just sayin') |
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We share the water
QUOTE (riffleriversteelheadslayer @ Jun 5 2010, 12:17 PM) Kirk round pupils on a snake means its not a pit viper and not poisonous same as if you look at the final segments on the tail of a s |
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Hellgrammite Questions
Once you are familiar with the hellgrammite, you will probably agree that they are appropriately named as "the-bug-from-hell". However, Smallmouth Bass love these ferocious appearing bugs an |
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Hello from South Florida
Welcome Henry, and all other newbies. I was raised in Tampa, spent almost 20 years in the Panama City area (10 miles south of Alabama), and now reside in Nova Scotia Canada. Doesn't a day go by I |
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Warm Water INVITATION Swap!!!
1. Day5 Michigan2. Smalliestalker New York3. Deeky South Dakota4. Pelhament Oregon5. Curtis fry Utah6. Hubby baby! (north alabama) aka Kentucky7. Breambuster North Carolina8. Ridderbos the third.. |
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ticked off...
seems to be an area in the mid-south, from Virginia going west to S. Missouri and Arkansas, where ticks are REALLY numerous. I don't remember seeing a single one in S. Alabama, but when I lived |
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Hello from Eunice, New Mexico.
Hello from Eunice, New Mexico. When I was offered this assignment in New Mexico at this construction site I was told I would be in the middle of some of the best fishing in the country. Actually it is |
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Music Taste
I like a lot of different types of music.these are some of the bands I listen to:- Nickleback - Our Lady Peace- The Tragically Hip- Powerman 5000- Lone Star- Iron Maiden- Arch Enemy- Bryan Adams - Bon |
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Popper Swap
Ok, so like I said, flies are going out in the morning. I just wanted to let everyone know what to expect from me. Everyone has a brown/gold popper in sz 8, stippled styled. I also sent everyone a sz |
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Easy Bugger
Lookin' good man! It figures that your fish would be booger eaters. (In Alabama, we say Wooly Boogers for some reason). I don't know that you could ask for a better tied bugger, and the |
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Aphid (Green Fly) #30
QUOTE (dwiltshire @ Mar 8 2010, 05:03 PM) Thanks Dart QUOTE (Dart @ Mar 8 2010, 11:02 PM) Hopefully you'll be able to catch a ladybug!Do they fight well on a #2?It depends on |
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2009 FTOTY Winners
QUOTE Dart,Yes you are right. i will post more in the future most likely on classic forum. Life has been getting in the way and have been devoting a lot of time to work, some family medical issues, an |
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New guy checking in.........
Welcome, pull up a chair and sit for a spell...what part of Alabama? I lived in L.A. (lower Alabama) Paxton / Florala. Got loads o' kin in Dothan and Elba area. Nice country with nice fishing spot |
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Saltwater Pattern / Recipe Links
One of the greatest things about the FTF is the diverse group of fly fishing / tying enthusiast from (literally) all over the world. In this age of instant information on the internet we now have un |
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Peacock Bass in SoFlo
Yup it is. We've lived on both sides of the state... it was 'interesting' living 20 mins from the WV border when we lived on the West side. Here on the East side out in the 'country& |
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Saying hey
So I am new to this board, and thought I would take a sec and say hello. I gues you could say that I am new to tying, again. I took classes when I was in high school, but once I hit college, finding t |
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How do you store your hooks?
I just dump all my hooks in an old peanut butter jar. Then I fish around in it for an hour until I find a hook that looks like what I want. It's a cool trick they taught me down in Alabama. |
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Automatic Reels?
they are still very much in use in the deep south "fly fishing for bream"... which is sort of like fly fishing. Saw several of them in use there, and in stores in south alabama and norther |
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Wanting to tie a fly to catch golden shiners
In south alabama I caught some HUGE golden shiners on #10 woolly worms, various#10 and #12 bluegill flies including surface bugs, and one that was 12 inches long on a #4 clouser! They fought like |
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Hello Everyone
Hi all just joined from Dothan Alabama hope to learn more about tying and meet great people on here. |
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Favorite Squirrel Tail
southern fox squirrels from Florida and Alabama (at least) look like giant gray sq. Up north they look like giant red sq. I'll take a few of each... |
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Lighting bug
pretty cool, I have thought a glob of luminous fabric paint, OR a glob of thinned, or maybe not thinned, Goop mixed with luminescent powder would work good. I've used both on foam bugs with good |
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Rio Grande Perch in New Orleans???
Hmmmm, are they edible? Wait wait....that was a dumb question...anything that swims crawls flies or wiggles is edible ...at least in Florida Georgia Alabama and oh yes...Louisiana!!! Can& |
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Moving to Harrisburg!!
Paperwork cleared and I got a great new job in New Cumberland. Got to be there mid-October. Right on the Susquehanna river for SMALLMOUTHS, minutes from Yellow Breeches, and God knows how many oth |
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I knew this would happen...
QUOTE (lykos33 @ Sep 23 2009, 10:01 PM) QUOTE (JSzymczyk @ Sep 23 2009, 09:19 PM) QUOTE (BigDaddyHub @ Sep 23 2009, 04:49 PM) Rob, I love your boobies....one man can say tha |
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How Did You Learn To Tie?
If I had any help, it may have come from my dad the first time or two, but I don't remember any lessons. I do remember seeing the flies in a Herters catalog and trying to attach or wind feathers |
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My attempt at some minnows
Yeah wait a tic lol.... I'm from New York and the last time I saw those was when I was in Alabama in April for the Talladega Race... magically they seemed to have the same effect as Louisiana Mard |
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