First post
Hello all NY name is Michael and I am from Pennsylvania. I am an avid flyfisherman and tie on my lunchbreak every day. I have a decent knowledge base on nymphs and streamers. I have created a few dea |
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Albino Trout
Here in Pennsylvania they call them "Palomino" trout, or "Golden Rainbow" trout. I believe they are some sort of rainbow and golden trout hybrid. My Dad called them "Banana |
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Modern grizzly hackle.
To fill in the blanks left by the mention of both the Hebert and the Metz lines, and that is left out in the mention of the Miner line in the Hoffman article, the 'original' Hackle Herder was |
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Deer hide questions
these are my observations:
You will have Hell's own time trying to tie with hair that has already been removed from the skin.
The absolute best deer hair (and tails) I have are from deer which |
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Spring trout flies
if you're looking at "put and take" stocked fisheries, keep it simple when starting out. A white marabou streamer with a tinsel body and a red hackle-barb tail will work as well as a ro |
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A Great Experience
Yesterday, I attended the Fly Fishing Show in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I found myself attracted to all the fly tiers who where lined around the walls. I walked the isles watching as they tied their f |
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How I spent my weekend
I was in the Pennsylvania State Fly Tying Championship this weekend at the PA outdoor show, The contest was a lot of fun, it it was a real honor to be included among the 5 finalist in the amateur div |
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Greetings from Alaska
Welcome to you from Pennsylvania. I watch outdoor programs, and dream, about your state all of the time. |
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Deer Hair for spinning
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PS Black hair sucks to try and spin.
Blane
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steelhead / egg pattern question
This is from the Pennsylvania 2012 regs summary:
[size="3"]SNAGGING HOOKS[/size] "may not be used or possessed while in the act of fishing. A snagging hook is a device designed or modi |
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Ice fishing
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Awesome!
There WERE at some point in the past, Amur Pike stocked in a few lakes in Pennsylvania and possi |
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Reels for Trout
it is the Whatever Makes You Happy scenario
fishing on wild trout streams for 12 inch and less fish.......certainly won't need the coolest and newest drag system
fishing where you have the pote |
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Rest In Peace Dad
My Father passed away one week ago. He taught me to love the outdoors, especially fishing and hunting. It's been a rough week, although his passing was not unexpected after a long string of ill |
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RBF: new guy from NEPA
Hey guys im new to the forum and rod building. Im from northeast pennsylvania, scranton area, i will be building a 9" 8wt fly rod for my first build and i will be on here asking alot of questions and |
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I had a Brain Fart
OK I did it Yea I know What an idiotAfter a real productive day I made a Major GoofWhile replacing a Reel Seat on a Casting rod I made the stupid mistake of gluing the seat on Upside down DUHI used |
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Pegging Beads
I read about using beads to imitate eggs for steelhead in Alaska, and I tried it with some success in Western Pennsylvania. What are people's feelings on this subject? |
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First bar of Gold for the season
Those are some great pictures along with some nice weather. Our weather here in Pennsylvania stinks right now. Cold and rainy all the time. Could that brownie be stream bred? Sure looks like one. |
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A.R.E. 10' 3pc 3/4wt to Float Rod Conversion
This is the rod I built superfast in the span of 36 hours (including sleep/tightbond drying, epoxy curing, guide finishing, etc) in preparation of an upcoming trip to Pennsylvania. It's a gift for a |
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Opening Day in NJ
well, it's obviously NOT opening day, because there aren't 4000 morons with surf rods lining the banks. oh, OK, it's not Pennsylvania. |
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Flies with no feathers swap!!!
QUOTE (Will @ Mar 26 2011, 08:32 AM) Ok.. I will be in on this swap.. Will be tying up Honey Bugs.. easy and fast tie but deadly on Pa. trout!Your in..Never used a honey bug on PA trout.. |
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Hair or CDC for stillwater mayfly duns?
if your going to make it up to potter county make sure you go a little west to venango county. Oil creek is one of if not the best trout streams in western pennsylvania. Last year me and 2 other g |
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Barbless hooks for Heritage Angling waters
http://www.fishandboat.com/images/exec/min.../min03march.pdfThe 67th Meeting of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission was held on Wednesday,March 16, 2005, at the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commis |
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North Queensland Fly Fishers Tying Sessions
cool page with great photos!! Lots of fish I know I still have to catch-- most of which I don't know what they are. I like the pic of the fly fisherman standing on the dam- here at least |
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Soft hackle/Flymph swap
It's sort of a combination of a wet fly and a nymph, hence the name flymph. Vernon S. "Pete" Hidy was a disciple of James Leisenring, a Pennsylvania fisherman who specialized in fishing |
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New from PA
Welcome to the board from a fellow Pennsylvania. This is a great place to spend your free time.Bruce |
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Pheasant Tail Swap
Ok, can't wait to see everybody's. (In 3 months...lol)I am going on a boat trip in Pennsylvania in April so I have to tie a bunch of these pheasant tail and other nymphs up for it. |
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Anyone from Pa?
I'm "from" Pennsylvania, grew up in Warren County where there are more places to fish than anyone could in a lifetime, and now after 20-some years am back living in the Harrisburg area. |
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Hendrickson Nymph
Anyone care to share a Hendrickson nymph pattern or link to a pattern, besides a pheasant tail, to fish in Pennsylvania this year?Thanks,Bruce |
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Hello from Pa.
Welcome from another Pennsylvania fly fisherman and fly tyer. I live in south central PA. What area of PA are you from and what streams do you like fish in PA. It is always nice to learn of other fly |
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Andino Deceiver
Welcome to the site from Pennsylvania. Nice flies. Someday I'd like to fish for peacock bass and dorado. They're very cool fish.Bruce |
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Any interest in a gurgler swap?
hope this finds you "gurgler tyers" doing fine. with the latest addition , we now have 14 tyers. 1.pat carroll - california2. mr.vegas - nevada3. foambug - colorado4. The Yman - tennessee5. |
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2011 New Year Caddis Swap
Would anybody out there like to host a 2011 New Year Caddis Fly Swap (January 2011). If so, post swap and count me in. I would host the swap myself, but I am a new member and cannot host a swap until |
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Joint Balsa Fly Rod Lures Project
Earlier this year a gentleman who chose the handle balsa fly rod lures began to post some finely crafted poppers and others of the old and more modern styles on one of the other fly fishing site I fre |
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Chain Gang Stonefly Nymph by Dean Myers
A while back we came across a fly pattern created by Dean Myers, a commercial fly tier from southeastern Pennsylvania, called the Chain Gang Stone. As you can see, Dean has taken an innovative appro |
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Hello from OHIO/PA/Cologne, Germany
Hello Everyone. I have been stalking your forum for the past month and decided this is something I need to be a part of. It seems that everyone is so helpful and willing to give inspiration and toug |
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Valla’s New Book The Classic Dry Fly Box
Valla’s New Book The Classic Dry Fly Box To be released November 6 at The Arts of the Angler Show For Immediate Release September 28, 2010 Livingston Manor, NY Contact: 845-439-4810 The Classic |
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Appalachian Waters Swap
CLOSEDBeing homesick for my beloved Eastern Kentucky Hills, I'm opening an Appalachian Waters swap. Anyone is welcomed to join, however, the pattern you select must be a pattern with known ties t |
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Steelhead Pattern Swap
Naturally the postal service managed to get flies from Pennsylvania and Eastern Oregon here in two days, flies from Central California however did not arrive today. |
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Paul and the Mrs Tour the Commonwealth
QUOTE (BigDaddyHub @ Jul 28 2010, 01:31 PM) Not long, Joel. Just three weeks or so.....had a hell of a time keeping the flies off of them until cooking time, but a little fly poo never hurt |
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most liked trout species
QUOTE (smallieFanatic @ Sep 23 2010, 01:32 AM) Are they spewers of misinformation or is there more to it? They're repeating what they remember to have been "true" when they were |
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Spin vs. fly tackle
well, one of the good things about Pennsylvania (once your brain and soul become numb to the tyrannical state government and archaic stupid laws) is that we have quite a bit of C&R and AFLO waters |
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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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The Addiction...
I began fishing about age 5. I remember going out with my grandfather to lakes and ponds north of NYC. Then our family started to spend two weeks every summer in the Adirondacks. We camped on India |
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Bluegills with Spots...
Had some of the best dry-fly/emerger fishing I've had in years last weekend. I was able to cast acceptably for short periods. My brother took me to the West Branch of the Tionesta in NW Pennsy |
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Building My First Rod
Hey guys im new to the rod building scene, i am building a rod for my wife and if all goes well, plenty more rods to come. Here is what i have to work with. Please let me know if i have missed anythin |
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"Amazing Facts Thread"
Everybody knows the railroads in the game Monopoly are the Pennsylvania, B&O, Reading, and Short Line. But how many people realize that three of the four were real railroads?The Pennsylvania Railr |
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CDC
For big CDC feathers (they may be goose cdc) try the "super select" CDC from TCO in Pennsylvania: TCO Fly Shop(Make sure you order their "super select" cdc ($5 per pack))These |
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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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Trout opener tomorrow 0800
First day of trout season in South Central and South East Pennsylvania tomorrow. Wow I was seriously ready to fish hard this spring until I became a medical statistic and now can't use my right |
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Lets Talk Nymph Rods
After spending 4 days nymphing I discovered my 8'6" Just didn't cut it......It will be used for Trout in Pennsylvania mainly water depths up to 10 feet The stream size varies from 10 ft up to 50 or |
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Looking for some American knowledge
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, Massatwoschetts, are "Commonwealths" not states too..... I think it's just an archaic old British term that enables the officials to foist more taxe |
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