Greetings from Scotland.
Hello all,
I'm an Englishman living in voluntary exile in the Highlands of Scotland. This area is a wild trout paradise. I've been tying for about a 1/4 century now, some of that time professi |
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South Mountain Jacobs Fork NC
Nice! Looks like a great time. I haven't been to that area to fish, but I may have to sometime. If you get a chance you should try the davidson soon. It has been fishing awesome lately. |
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Brindabella trout
About a week ago, my new Sage txl-f 3wt 7'10" rod arrived along with a rigged up Sage Click III and an ultralight BlueSky furled leader. That day, I took it into the backyard to try casting i |
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Fly Tying Inventory
Over the past month I have been inventorying all my stuff and I am nearing completion. I put it into evernote. It is free and has great search functions and easy ways to seperate things. I have differ |
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Clousers!
Great looking Clousers. I like the squirrel over the white and the use of the jig hook. Great ties for a rusty ole'..., we won't go there again.
What model Gheennoe do you have. A friend of m |
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West Branch Delaware county HELP!
I wont be there long at all. Going for work. Im going to try to fish early 4am monday 5pm monday 4am tuesday, maybe tuesday night also. Then I have to go back home. If you have any specific spots I sh |
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Polorized
I wear prescription glasses and over the years purchased polarized RX sunglasses from Smith Optics in photochromatic amber and yellow that were made for fishermen. They were GREAT. I don't know if |
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Thoughts on Thread
Having joined this forum and seeing some of the great flies folk tie I have started to appreciate the use of thinner threads. Below 8/0. I've noticed Mr Weilenmann uses 12/0 in nearly all his post |
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Drum on a Fly
I'm going to be fishing Lake Erie for a few days in early June. Like schaef said, we used to catch them all the time when I was growing up on the lake, when we were trying to catch walleye and ba |
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Deep Searching Stimulator Nymph
I use this fly when fishing on fast flowing and muddy rivers in Spring time.
It is a great nymph for trout and grayling.
Materials:
Hook: ST300 BL jig hook
Body Thread: micro floss cream
Body: Sp |
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Sixth finger scissors
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Gentlemen I appriecaite the advice, especially about keeping the wife away still haven't figured how to accompl |
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Senko Substitute
After some one on one tutelage from the originator himself, Rich McElligott - I think I understand how to tie these now.
Getting ready for a week long trek into some back-country lakes that hold t |
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Happy Birthday eastern fly
get out and fish today bro its your birthday you deserve it I mean its not everyday you turn 47 and still look 55 have a great one |
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Emerger Patters
For the emerger elk hair caddis, simply 'dead drift' the adult until it is directly downstream and then pull it under and retrieve back upstream. WORKS GREAT! |
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RBF: Repairing grandpa's old graphite rod
My grandfather has an old Hawk Grip (HawkGrip) Graphite Medium Action Egg Rod 9.5' 2-piece Salmon Trout... well that's what it says on the rod! Oh, and Model SP1741-96 Now I can't wait to use a nice |
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RBF: Project Healing Water's Donations
A few years ago, I was fortunate to attend a Project Healing Waters Event here in NC and it was a joy being able to help disabled veteran's fly fish. If you haven't heard of this organization, I sugge |
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Trout Nymph Swap?
great looking scuds Jim here in MI we also have the mysis shrimp as well as common scuds so when you catch rainbows out of some rivers the flesh is almost as pink as a pink salmon great tasting and ve |
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First fly?
As a UK tyer I found The Fly tying bible by Peter Gathercole very good. Lots of patterns rated for difficulty across the various forms of fly. Good tips on tying at the beginning. Also check out the g |
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PT variant for European nymphing
Great looking tie, this will be a great help for me because I have been doing a lot more euro nymphing as of late. Hoping to do some comp fishing in the next few months so it is great have another pat |
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Finally Started Tying My Own
Great Job! Were you usin a kit, cause those seem pretty darn good for the first ties! (just a tad jealous)
Tight lines,
Carson LeBoeuf |
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Redfish on Topwater
Hey Peter, glad you liked the video, thanks.
Sheepshead - well, we weren't really targeting them with poppers but there were so many on the flats (we saw probably twenty sheepshead for every redfi |
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Bugger colors?
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Flytire, I'll second this one! Great post & an awesome reference book! |
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How big is too big?
The simplest answer to your question is that it depends upon the type of fish you are after. I have seen Marlin flies in excess of 18 inches that incorporated entire Peacock Sword feathers! I have |
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waders Simm headwaters vs. dan baileys barebones
I have had the Simms Headwaters for about 2 years now. Fished in them in all 4 Seasons (in North Carolina). They have been great. No tears or leaks. They are pretty lightweight. The clips on the strap |
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Super Hair baitfish
Thanks for your replies guys. I was going to add some flash to it but forgot about it until after I had already finished. Im tying these for pike/muskie. As for what im looking for i am just trying to |
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What to start with
I just starting to acquiring the tools of the trade. ... what are the very basic tools that are a "must have"
Some of them are painfully obvious that you need, others, not so much.
So far |
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RBF: Good thing I checked.......
Building a spinning rod for a friend and he wanted it done in the team colors for the Cincinnati Reds.So.....I proceded to do the main wrap in Cherry Red and then put a Gunmetal Gray trim band below i |
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All about Feathers
I'm pretty sure that the only feathers that float a hook unaided for any length of time are CDC feathers. Cul de Cunard. These feathers come from ducks and other water birds bums and are near the |
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Branson MO
Have a look at the Ozark Anglers Forum [url="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com"]here[/url] I think Lower Taneycomo might be what you are looking for. But, you might want to give Phil Lilley a |
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RBF: How to get luster on reel seats?
Hi guys, I recently received a few reel seats that were turned from a stabilized blanks. The inserts look great but are 'unfinished' i.e. they do not have that great polished luster that brings out th |
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RBF: How to get luster on reel seats?
Hi guys, I recently received a few reel seats that were turned from a stabilized blanks. The inserts look great but are 'unfinished' i.e. they do not have that great polished luster that brings out th |
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Luck o' the Irish
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Another good fly. Do you do anything to your tippet tails before tying them in? I've been told to soak them and |
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Stockie Killer
They look great. Always like to see biot used in different ways. |
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Marjor Rod Custom Modele 4495 Martin Reel
Hi its been a long time since I have been on this forum, and I am a bit rusty. I cant seem to log in to the rod building forum but as soon as I can I will post about this there. I am looking for any i |
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ASG MK 111
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The ASG MK 111 is the same vise at the one linke |
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new member HELP
The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference is a great encyclopedia but to get started IMHO I'd start you off with Fly Tying Made Clear And Simple written by the master Skip Morris, it will start you o |
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RBF: Footballin'
Fellas! Been quite a while since I been here; actually been quite a while since I've built a rod. The past three or so years have not been kind to me, and I haven't had the extra funds to fund rod bui |
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Steelhead Fly Hook Selection
If you look at the 'old' Scottish salmon flies with married wings and the like, they don't fish in a perfect cosmetic fashion but they caught plenty of fish. The Atlantic Salmon isn't |
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modular kayaks
well like i said after i realized the price i said nope never mind any ways they dont make racks for my car i have an 05 scion tc i think there is one rack out there for it but i cant remember the p |
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Joined today and want to say hello
Welcome from a former Utah resident, currently trapped in the east. I still fish Utah often, so lets not be telling people about all the great fishing ok? |
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What are they doing heaven today?
John, I'm really sorry to hear about Fred. He was a great contributor to the forum and a super guy. Guess I must have missed the news when he passed away. He just dropped off the radar all of a su |
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FTF Fly Pattern - troutguy - Olive searcher
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This was a great producer this Saturday until I lost it. Can't believe I only tied one. The Rhode Island Red tail really looks like the tail of a sculpin. It moved |
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New carp pattern I will try soon
That's a great looking pattern, I can see that working for many other species around my neck of the woods. I use allot of Coyote fur myself, got several naturals and dyed tails packed away. The un |
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Black ghost
Nearly as I can tell, the fly looks great. You really need to work on your photo skills though. |
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Thinking outside the box for carp...
Great pics! That Cheeto fly should work great.
Also, you could just try casting any fly in to the gaping mouths kind of like a reverse ring toss game at a festival.
Kirk |
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Red Woolley
Thats some quality herl you found there. I had to check the hook size you put down. Great fly. |
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hooked
The amount of salmon flies I 'collect' from unfortunate souls at work each autumn is great. (I work in A&E) Normally manage to debarb them and get them pushed out without destroying fly.
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