Back to Our Roots
I started on the old bait casters before 'free spool'. I think they were called back lash specials. WheIn I was 8 or 9 I learned about spin-cast and orderd a shakespear combo for Xmas. I used |
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Making my fly tying station
unpainted furniture
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Second Annual Evolution Swap
Today my postman brought packages from BBBruce and Sjo. Excellent additions to our Evolutionary series! Now, if cencalfly's contribution arrives before the weekend I can get my wife to mail th |
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Casting For the Cure
Hey SmallieBumm: I think this is great and am looking to help. Im thinking of doing 100 mickey finns. What is the date I need to have them to Indiana by? |
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Fly Tying Bench - CrookedHook
Well mine is pretty simple. I was kicked out of the living room and now have the kids toy room. I use an old desk by Indiana desk company that has many drawers and shelves. I like the small plastic dr |
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Hello from S.E. Michigan
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kodiaksalmon I never knew you were that close to me, I guess I always took it for granted by your username tha |
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A new way to make popper heads!
I am fortunate to know Gary Krebs and the Fly Fishing group he is part of http://www.tippecanoeflyfishers.org/. I bought the panfish size jigs and I must admit I am happy even though I do not tie many |
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Shannon's Streamer
I agree with both of you. It's been miserably hot here for the past week. We just got some rain, and so did Indiana. It's still nasty out though. I just hope the rain hasn't raised the riv |
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Fading Materials/ flies
Thanks guys i had some ideas about it, and JSzymczyk mentioned materials sitting on my bench when not in use. This is true, i have a full sun lit room and was storing some just on the bench in a clear |
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LAKE MUSKIE
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if your close to Indiana lemme know if you wanna go. I can arrange the rest.
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Tiny trout stuff
Well I may not be new to tying in general. I am how ever to tying trout sized flies im used to tying big bass bugs for bass and buggers for walleye and strippers.So i just just thought i would get on |
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Bailey's Mossback Nymph
utyer used my line. " up hill both ways" I am from east central Indiana which is not exactly trout haven so WW was and is what is happening. Nobody fly fished or tied so I was mostly on my o |
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Steel Planing Forms for Sale
Hello All,I have been making 6 ft. Planing Forms for Hex rods for about 2 1/2 years now.I have made a total, counting the ones I made for myself awhile back, of 66.I have recently completed a new batc |
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Blizzard Bustin' Bluegill Bash
I would like to get in on this swap, gonna be iced in here in Centeral Indiana for a few days. Give me a couple of days to land on a pattern. |
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6ft. Planing Forms for Sale
Hello All,I have been making 6 ft. Planing Forms for Hex rods for about a year and a half now.I have made a total, counting the ones I made for myself awhile back, of 38 as of now.Edit: I have now mad |
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Deer Hair Diver/Slider
actually up here in northern Indiana i use a pattern very similar except i use big alumm saltwater eyes so it kind got a stunned river shiner motion and its completely slays northern pike and largies |
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How did you come up with your username??
well, I normally go by Redear, my all time favorite panfish, but when I registered here Redear was already taken so since I live in the hills of Indiana and have been called a redneck hillbilly by num |
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Why I Love Craft Stores
I do feel for the tying shops. But yeah. Im a graduate student right now (studying fisheries no less). I pay fees, rent, utlities, a car payment, car insurance, food, gas etc on what amounts to povert |
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hello all
i'm from indiana new to forum and to tying i mostly fish small mouth and panfish i,m looking forward to learning all i can about tying flys i started tying jigs about 6months ago and i,m hooked o |
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6 ft. Planing Form for sale
Hello All,I have been making 6 ft. Planing Forms for Hex rods for about a year and a half now.I have made a total, counting the ones I made for myself awhile back, of 38 as of now.I currently have one |
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spoon flies
Maybe for more weight and depth you could modify some small Indiana spinner blades. Might achieve a wider wobble with small Colorado blades as well. |
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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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what kind of fisher are you?
I'm heading "home" to where I grew up for the weekend, and casting a fly rod is unfortunately not possible unless I do it left handed, then I'll be in the trees from start to stop. |
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Egg Sucking Leech Tube
I have been fishing these for crappie, bass, and gills. They have been producing so I am gonna try them on Steelies during the fall run here in Indiana. I am still new to fishing for steelies and have |
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High and dry
As i was sitting at my tying hole i started thinking about my upcoming attempt at catching the Indiana state record for either bluegill or red eared sunfish and wondering what flies im going to need t |
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Hi from Indiana
HiI live in West Central Indiana.I have been flyfishing a long time and looking at this forum for several months.I just bought an "ebay" 9 foot, 6wt. fly rod blank (no name, "translucent") for under 3 |
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New guy checking in.........
Whats up gentlemen, name is Rick, been tying for 40+ years, grew up in Indiana, but lived in Alabama for the last 27 years. Love to tie, and fish for anything that tugs. Overwelmed at the variety of t |
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Flyfishing trip out west, need help and/or ideas
British Columbia would be unreal, but driving from Indiana, that would be a bit far. Looking at colorado at least east of the continental divide. Has anyone spend any time in the Bozeman or livingst |
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Hoosier Rookie Tyer
Welcome. I'm gonna be back in my native Indiana in May for a wedding anniversary, my nephew has a place on Geist Reservoir not far from Indy and we are planning to try out some of my deer hair bu |
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Split wings or not?
QUOTE (JSzymczyk @ Jan 26 2010, 06:41 PM) show me a fish which will take a #20 fly with a split wing, and refuse one with an unsplit wing (all other factors being equal) and I will definitely |
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stripper pit 26
I was woundering if anybody had fished sullivan-Green state forest in indiana.They have a lots of stip mines that filled in with water and are now very good spots for bass fishing.I go down every summ |
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Quillback Killer
QUOTE (David Legg @ Jan 11 2010, 09:20 PM) Great looking pattern! How do you like the Anvil Atlas?Best darn vice I've ever owned! I had a little trouble with the tool steel jaws |
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Hello from Colorado!
Hi,I am new to the forum, and wanted to introduce myself. I have been tying and fly fishing for about 30 years, fishing for about 45 years, and am eager to learn new things, and share something now an |
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Another Bluegill & Panfish Swap -
Absolutely not!! People with think I have a conscious or some crap like that!!! LOL!!!Yea man, sounds like a great idea. I'll even one up ya here, Ian...I would |
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Picked up new book
Rats ! Picked up the same book at Ollies here in Indiana PA & got the shaft ! Paid $6.00 !It is a great book.FDH |
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new to the sport
QUOTE (oracle @ Jan 2 2010, 01:15 PM) Welcome to the fourms i am also fairly new to here but about your question i am currently tying on a cheapy but have tied on an apex and it is great so t |
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Introduction
Hello from Indiana USA!I have been tying and using flies, (with bait) for panfish since my grandad taught me back in the summer of 1969.Now I am passing the art on to my grandkids.Some may know me |
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I never thought I would stoop to this level
Seadog,I have to ask, what in the world was a buffalo head doing in Indiana? Do you have buffalo in Indiana. Buffalo ranches? Was it just killed? I would have stopped also.Rob |
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Determined to become a steelhead angler
Guys -I live out in Illinois, I know there are some good tributaries in Indiana and Michigan for steelhead, but I don't really know the story about fishing for them. When its legal, when its not, |
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Wire diameters for spinner-fly combo?
use either 0.016" or 0.020" stainless leader wire. no need to go any heavier especially if you're using it on the fly rod. I've had some very good success putting a colorado or i |
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Boss
Nice fly. Looks salty. but being from Indiana I would think the pike and maybe even Salmon would love it. Do you have any problem with the Ostrich herl fouling? |
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Grass
If you Googled cannabis, Rastafarian, bud, stink weed, Bob Marley, Indiana ditchweed, Ziggy Marley, hippies, ganja, zombie weed, Acapulco gold, hemp, bambalacha, dope, chronic, fry daddy, Panama red, |
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Jackpot!
This just in , FOX news is reporting the sudden and unexpected extinction of Bluegill in the state of Indiana..... Joe, the fish and game boys will be watching you!!!Nice haul....some real |
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flies that resemble in-line spinners
Look here:http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...;hl=clouspinnerI make these, and at times they can produce when nothing else will. A willow blade will spin too close to the shaft or fly body |
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RBF: Complete Rod Building Set-up For Sale
I have a complete bamboo rod building set-up for sale. The planning form is the Tom Morgan Hand Mill which has been used sparingly and is in excellent condition. The Hand Mill is complete with all o |
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Indiana
Luck for what? I'm from Indiana originally. Originally from S. IN down on the Ohio River, but ended up graduating high school from Plymouth. If I was gonna fish IN again, it'd be Webster fo |
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Where did Willowhead go?
I declare this thread "HIGHJACKED!!" Bud Most of your dream is is dead on with what is really going on except for the Cuba part. See they are letting all of the bad guys go free now |
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New member from the mitten.
I lived in Indiana for 30 years and never heard that. Hey Jake - any relation to a Carufel in Alaska? I don't suppose Carufel is all that common a name. |
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list of bugs for panfish.
as far as live bait (getting off flies just for a second dont panic) I know here in Indiana I have the best luck with redears on plain old ordinary Redworms Spring Summer and Fall, I like to call the |
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Snow Shoe Emerger - Trout pattern
I like it!!! Not only because it is simple but here in Indiana we get a pretty hefty midge hatch and if tied small enough that fly would perfectly imitate the midges I have seen the panfi |
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crystal meth
Biting my tongue on all the can't stop fishing this fly jokes... Ahhh, anyway well tied, Beautiful pictures, I am really a cold weather wusss, I want to go steelhead fishing but its freaking col |
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Best fish and the fly that fooled it
I have pictures of the fish somewhere..but heres the story.Ive only been tying and fly fishing hardcore like for about 3 years. Shortly after I really got into tying I made a trip to a creek in Indian |
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Flies from the vice.
Normally I am busy cranking out flies for my tying classes all winter, however.... Patti Beasley asked me this fall to tie up some flies for the 2009 Indiana on The Fly show. She has an Entomologist |
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lets see your panfish box
Not sure about where you are from but I can show you a few patterns that have done well for me here in indiana.Baby Leeches Czech Nymphs, Havent actually fished them yet but I can pretty well bet the |
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Overwhelmed
Kat - that fly looks pretty good - you might try splitting the squirrel tail into two halves to better immitate crawdad (crayfish depending on where you're from) claws. First, I'll say, that |
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Lamplighter
Cool pattern, great tye. Live from Terrehaute, Indiana. mark..... |
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Great lakes steelhead patterns :help:
I have had great success with egg patterns. Lots of different colors work, depending on the stream, water color, and temp. I have NOT had much luck with the typical tie of an ESL. I have had luck with |
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Glorybox
TKX! i'll do my best..... mark..... Live, from Terrehaute, Indiana |
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Blue Tilapia
[quote name='Twist' date='Oct 16 2008, 03:12 PM' post='324237']Hi all!,I'm new to this forum,but certainly no stranger to fishing.I fish on occasion at a little shallow |
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Smallie Minnow Streamer
Siestafred,I discovered your smallie streamer pattern and think it is a wonderful fly pattern. What has been your experience fishing this pattern? It seems to me that it has a variety of uses and situ |
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