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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Bull/Brown Trout Streamers
Big muddlers, especially black.
Big woolly buggers, again, mostly black.
Zonkers - the eight-pound river brown on my wall fell victim to a gold variant zonker with a gold body.
Anything that rese |
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How do I fish Clouser Minnows?
Hi saltwater experts,Im in Fiji, on an island surrounded by a lagoon. I have seen some Giant Trevally's and Baraccuda cruising about the area. I have a bunch of clousers, baitfish patterns, crab p |
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Jiggies!
Spring run has hit the eastern part of Long Island. So far its been all small bass (todays biggest fish was a monster at 18 inches lol) - But for the beginning of April!, its a blast!
Jiggi |
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Raindrop Flies
What interesting shaping on your lures, *cough flies*!
The first one does it for me, the second looks a bit like i may miss a hook set or two *sorry being critical of your fine work*
Ahh the |
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April 2012 : Flies from the Vise
Looks good Murray! It's fun playing around with flash - I use it on a lot on my saltwater heads. BTW: you should consider yourself lucky you've got a nice French song running through your |
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camping trip on the IRL
yep it was a great time. Didnt see the first mosquito which was great. Wind was pretty bad the first afternoon it was white-capping so i just fished the backside of the island. But in the morning i |
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Popovics Flex Fly
lol you guys are to funny, but i am glad we have our tight group of saltwater bug slingers!
The weather is over 50 deg each day, last week we hit 65 to 70 for a few days. Crazy warm winter for |
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Texas re fish
Mike a couple places to ask for specifics Texas Fishing Forum and Texas Kayak Fisherman Forum. Small poppers in size 6 copper, chart and red and white are good searching patterns. The flats around Goo |
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Diver, Tarpon Mouse, Z-force
Looks like the chef is hard at work to put out a feast for the poons ! Noticed you were going try in Pine Island Sound & here's a website you might want to reference since Aaron works on & |
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Hello from Vancover Island
welcome to the forum island eagle. I am also new to the site and pretty new to tying. lots of great info here.
Bri |
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Some More Bunker Patterns
Always appreciate the worlds IFLY, always do buddy! The salt season begins here (Long Island NY) around first or 2nd week of april since we had such a warm winter. The largemouth bass and pickeral |
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Crab Flies
Crab flies for fishing Eastern Long Island Flats
1 - Flat Crab
2 - Hide N Seek Crab
3 - Spring Colors Flat Crab |
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Trying some new stuff
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Regarding the rattle fly clouser - that rattle wont break from a fish biting it or dragging it thru cover or arou |
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HTA Anchovy
Thank ya sir! Got the itch so bad! April 1st and with this warm weather for Long Island, they little bass should begin to bite! |
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Hatches Blog Post - Turning Tail Trailer
Gray Ghost Productions presents their latest installment “Turning Tail” Throughout the east coast of North America, from Long Island Sound to the northern most point of Labrador if you loo |
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Paradise Island
I have an upcoming vacation planned to Paradise Island this April. I have one day free and would like to know a recommended guide or part of the island one of you might recommend. I have begun tying C |
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Todays Ties
Thank you guys very much, appreciate the kind words like always. Wanted to give a quick report. Fished freshwater this weekend and believe it or not I caught fish! Not to say I am a terrible fishe |
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Need a guide!
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Booked a trip back to FL in the end of April. If I am lucky the Tarpon will be around! In any case, any recomme |
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Back at it!!
We have to get you out of Michigan, your a saltwater man at heart! Dude plan a trip to long island and come fish with me, you have have a blast! Striped bass up to 20lbs, bluefish and fluke on |
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Think outside the box
Your to good to me Tide. Thank you very much, I am def going to tie some of those patterns up! Sound awesome! As you know, we get the cinderworm hatch on Long Island, Boy those bass can be fin |
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Striped Bass Single Flat Wings
lol, you are def correct on that one surf! When do you guys generally get your spring run of Striped Bass? You catch em in April? I think this year with the warm weather the bass should be by me ( |
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Striper Decline
Kudos to Nightheron for operating his business on a sustainable basis. Wish there were more out there like him.
I agree that a moratorium is a necessary, but the only way it will work this time arou |
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Websites
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Ben! We have to fish together lol we think alike!
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Im with ya there dude. Its lookin more and mo |
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Crab Coins
No problem, thanks for the kind words. This is my own pattern used for bass on the flats of eastern long island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTY8ICJMcFc
Check out that video and follow the sa |
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Speckled Trout Fly SWAP
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we have been SPANKING them on DOA shrimp this winter. best year ever here but they shut off a couple weeks ago so i |
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RBF: Building equipment for bamboo rods
I'm a retired senior citizen and currently build violin bows. I live on Vancouver Island and the fishing is exceptional so I'd like to build a couple of bamboo fly rods.I would like to get instruction |
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Crabs
Cant beat that pattern my man! Excellent flies. Tie the same crab pattern up here in Long Island NY, for Bass on the flats. Great ties! |
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Creepy Crawlers
PeterJ - amazing ties like usual - could you please post or pm me that flounder pattern! I def understand if that is your own secret pattern, no problems at all. I just would like to tie a few up |
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First flies - Estaz Eggs
This is copied from my blog. If it is not OK to post links, let me know and I will make sure I take them out and refrain from posting them in the future. I did some searching, but couldn't find an |
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Shrimp Patterns
Shrimp flies for the bays and flats of Eastern Long Island
Left to right....
1 - Double eye shrimp clouser
2,3,4,5 - Different color Polar Fiber weighted and un-weighted flies with 3mm and 4mm ra |
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Bite Tippet
Maybe Norm could help you out.
Mr. Norm Zeigler
Fly Shop
Norm Zeigler Fly Shop
2242 Periwinkle Way Unit 1
Sanibel Island FL 33957
United States of America
(239) 472-6868 |
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Islamorada, FL Report
Absoloutley awesome brother! Now I have to get you up to Long Island for some Stripedbass and Fluke Flats fishing! You would love it! Glad you caught em up! Great pics! |
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first poppers
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looks easier to pull the legs through the body with foam. What part of Russia are you in? Im looking to do a trip i |
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Striped Bass Flies
Hey no sad faces! I love the hard work ethic! I am the same way, I love to stay busy, love working hard and challanging myself!! Anyhow if you ever come to the Long Island NY area woul |
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GRHE vs Birds Nest vs all the other look likes
I prefer the gold ribbed hares ear...maybe a small flashback thrown in. I have only tried the hares ear...march brown...march brown spider...and soft hackle. Imo...i like it best for its natural loo |
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Clouser Party
I love using mono thread of mainly all my flies, i use both the fine and medium mono - just gives the fly a transparent look and really seems to make a difference when fish are picky or fishing is tou |
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Bucket List Trips or Species
I am disabled and 56 and have fished a lot of salt and fresh water species, would like to do alaska get a bowfin, covina, roosterfish another hammerhead (have one on wall that was only 22" bit me |
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Bass Drugs
Thanks Capt - appreciate the kind words, if you dont mind me asking whats some nice colors for down south? I commercial fish and work out of Long Island NY waters - every winter I like to go to the ke |
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Supreme Bendbacks
Nice fly notenough - i like tying my bendbacks sparse as well - try some fine chenelle or fine to medium estaz for the hook shank - for some reason up here in Long Island NY the bass like estaz on the |
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shrimp and crab
thank you for the great response! I fish long island sound waters in NY and have never fished down south! I am dieing to get down there with my fly rod to tackle anything that has a tail! |
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Snook & Redfish Fly Suggestions
Fellow Fly Fisherman,
I'm heading to Sanibel Island Fla and would appreciate any fly patterns that would be effective for Snook, Redfish and Specks,,,, I realize that one fly pattern will not cove |
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Caribbean flies?
I was in the bahamas a couple years ago on the island of Andros at a friends house. I wasn't that into fly fishing at the time, so for baracuda and larger fish we used lures, but I did go out with |
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Fly Tying Bench - rockworm
We are moving to the west end of the island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. My kids are thrilled with the winter snow there. I am looking forward to fishing for brookies again.
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howdy yall
greetings from pawleys island, s. cackalacky. mostly chase tailin reds and specs in north inlet with minimal success. like to tie but dont last long on any one pattern. playing with the 60 degree & |
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Sanibel Island Fla
Sanibel and captiva islands are beatiful,lived there 30 yrs.before moving back to NH. Try the islands to the right when you first get noto the causeway,a short paddle in a kayak. Inhave done well over |
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NY Long Island
Hello everyone. Best of wishes to all. I am an avid fisherman. Love all types of fishing< especially fly fishing! Work as a 1st mate on two premiere charter boats which are located on Long isla |
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Fly Tyers Dungeon as of 12/4/11
I have seen many posts with orders and contact info regarding FTD (Fly Tyers Dungeon) I placed my order this past Thursday and sent the mad scientist an email. Literally 3 hours later I got an email t |
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Pflueger Trion 1990
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I recently got a offer on a new Islander that i could not pass up and being i have way to many Fly reels as it is have |
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Blue Dun??
I thnik Soft Hackle has it right. The term refers to a smokey gray color, and there are shades from light to dark. Any with a touch of brown, are known as rusty blue duns (my favoite of the group, a |
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Late Summer/Early Fall Redfishing
Its been a little while since I have posted a report on here. The fishing has been fantastic and is only getting better as the weather turns and the water cools this fall. August and September were gr |
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Hello from the PNW
Hello,
I just this week am going to start tying flies, the poor availability of winter steelhead flies locally got me wanting to do this. I don't mind mail order but when we need it and its not |
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RBF: Southern Chinook
Project „Southern Chinook“I´ve seen some wonderful rods here in the past so I think it´s time to return with some immages myself. Eventually I found the time to finish off a rod that I had in the pip |
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Best most ridiculous Pizza toppings
I had one the other night called a Philly pizza...Medium crust (I'm from St. Louis, and a thin crust is like a cracker here), sausage gravy for sauce, thick sliced roast beef, sauteed peppers & |
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Ganaraska run
Nice work, surprised i didn't run into you down there! Some beasts came in during the run, unfortunately its closed now apart from the lower section, trout season is over too. All i can say is |
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Redfish crab fly
Redfish are one of the favorite inshore focuses on in the Carolinas to the Sarasota Gulf Coastline, La, and to the actual Rio Great from Southern Padre Island, Tx. Reds like really shallow water till |
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OBX - Outer Banks NC
i don't know where buxtom is but ive fished around the OBX. I've heard that the redfish fishing had been really good and the the albacore have just started to get good. Also if for some reason |
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Fall Ontario Chinooks
On the fraser river there are a few that get caught every year that are 70-80 pds, they just never get talked about, usually gear though. a friend years back did some diving on some remote rivers on v |
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spider ID
I'm wondering if there is an arachnologist on the board.
In the fall of 2009, I was fishing Lake Lenore in central Washington. Lake Lenore is about 25 miles north of Moses Lake. It has an islan |
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One of a kind
Pinks are dynamite on the fly in the river and when they school up. rule of thumb: every 2 yrs they show in the southern waters-fraser river etc in large numbers. next year there will be far fewer but |
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What was working for me, early salmon west coast
Hi John, the edition i have is 'Vancouver Island BC Backroad Mapbook'
Has backroad, topographical relief maps, hunting, fishing (including salt), paddling, park, recsite (camping), trail, wil |
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