Anyone ever have a fly rod snap on a backcast?
Well as far as big game fish go the BlueFin is about the only game in town but you can go for some shark as well in the later summer months. Mostly people go out and handline mackeral. There are no ma |
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New hooks, new flies
Ben I love that 24K baitfish - Cant tell the difference between yours or T Harvey! You have to come out with me and throw that at albacore (you will have the fight of your life) honestly its a 6lb |
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Everglades backcountry, 28 February 2012
I was on the road almost continuously this past week, logging four days at Flamingo and two at Everglades City (and in the process clocking 1500 miles on my trailer). Fishing is good now and at times |
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Hopper Hooks
I'll go against the grain and recommend a Mustad C49S. I'll caveat that with saying I usually use it for bigger foam patterns that need a wider hook gape, but I really like it. And it's a |
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Animal Flies
To be brief, Florida is the shark bite capitol of the world... the good news is 95% of all bites are mistakes and the animal never comes back for a second bite (of course you're still going to nee |
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Islamorada, FL Report
Im back! lol. Im feeling a little lost not having been on here in 4 days or so! My trip down to Islamorada finally happend. As fast as it came, it went. My first thought on the whole weekend i |
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RBF: Looking for rod advice
Once I get my light spinning rod finished up I am going to start on a rod for my Abu 7000. The target fish for this rod will be jack crevalle, king mackerel, both in the 15-20lb range, and bonita. I |
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RBF: Howdy from Texas
Been reading around here for a few weeks now and figured I'd go ahead and join up. I've been surf fishing most of my life, and now it's getting to be a near daily thing when the weather allows. Fish |
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Bucket List Trips or Species
for places I would like to go to Brazil, Japan, Mongolia, and Ireland. For species I would like to catch somesort of big billfish, a greatwhite (doesn't have to be too big, just want to be able to |
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0.10 Mylar Question
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Cementing Heads
I use both Sally Hansen and FlexCoat as finish on the flies I tie. But all of that's after the super glue treatment and I can testify that every time I "re-cycle" any fly or jig built t |
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The Caddis Fly Invitational
here is what I am tying its a cross between a Shark's caddis and a soft hackle caddis
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Trip to the Keys
Hello Everyone!
Hoping for some guidance here... I will be heading down to the keys for my very first saltwater fly fishing trip in the beginning of Feb. I am an avid fly tyer and will tie just a |
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Redfishing 12-9
After I got my work done this morning I decided to head out. I launched around 2 started looking for some working fish. I spooked a bunch of reds laid up on the fall, but had a couple shots at some wa |
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Tenkara
Sorry guys, but to be totally honest, the Tenkara style looks incredibly limiting in my mind. I'll admit that if all you're doing is small stream fishing for small fish, Tenkara seems like a v |
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My overwhelming flop of a trip
It was a perfect storm (literally and figuratively) that pretty much killed my saltwater week last week in SC. I felt like I was well-prepared, I tied 5 boxes worth of saltwater patterns and got some |
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Decent day on the flats
Nice fish and looks like a nice day out, good work with the light gear would have been a blast! I wonder what the larger shark would have thought of 12lb tippet? |
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Ready to go to battle
Wow. I wasnt expecting that. Looks like you tied up some of those Leslies' Special. Good luck!
btw, that orange and red shark fly looks like money!
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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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Everglades action, 20 Sept
On the water out of Flamingo three of the last five days, mostly fly fishing... The pics will tell most of the story and, as expected, things are certainly heating up along the Gulf coast of the ' |
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RBF: Thoughts on 12 wt
I am about to start my first 12wt. I will be using a Winston Boron IIX blank to build a tarpon and shark rod. To date all of by builds have been 8wt or less, so I have a couple of questions about he |
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South Carolina inshore flies
Here's a sample of some of the stuff I have done so far. I started out with stuff I already know fairly well, topwaters:
Wapsi #2 saltwater popper
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What happened to the old-timers
I posted this on Talkflyfishing yesterday. Sometimes you just get burned out from all of the drama too.
Hi my name is Fred and I have been on Hiatus. It was for so long I forgot my password, had an a |
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Loon: Shark Tooth Spool Management System Review
Hi everyone,
I just posted a review of the Loon Shark Tooth Spool Management System on my blog. You can read the full review below or to check out the review with pictures click on the link below.
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Snookin' the Lights 6-2 to 6-5-2011
I just returned from a snook fishing trip to Southeast Florida with a couple of good buddies over the weekend. The trip was an absolute success. Tim, Dave and I met up Thursday evening on the way down |
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piggyback caddis nymph
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Everglades tarpon report, 19 April
We've been in the big fish now for weeks in the backcountry of the Everglades out of Flamingo. It started in Whitewater Bay then moved out to the Gulf coast north and south of the Little Shark ri |
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Fishing for a new vest
Thanks for the update... I was only aware that fishpond joined to stop the killing of sharks in fishing tournaments and just want shark tournaments catch and release only...Guess I need to do some res |
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One big fish story
Not sure how I would have reacted. http://www.yakangler.com/articles/news/jus...-enormous-shark |
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Question for all saltwater fly tiers out there.
QUOTE (Terry Dunford @ Mar 21 2011, 03:44 AM) Yes, excellent advice. Thank you all for your contributions to my questions. You guys have saved me a lot of time, otherwise I would have had to |
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12 and 14 wt fly rod guides
I am going to build a 14 and 12 wt fly rod for an upcoming shark fishing trip. What type of guide would be appropriate for this application? I have a few possibilities: 1 - recoil strippers and sin |
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Thoughts on orvis mirage fly reel
Has anyone had any experience with the newish orvis mirage fly reels? I am looking at the vii model for a upcoming shark trip.Reply to topic here http://www.rodbuildingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=2 |
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What Keeps You Tying/Fly Fishing?
I'm only 15 and have been fishing ever since i was a little kid and tying for a couple years now. My dad is the one that got me into the sport or passion for me, he has been a big influence on my |
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Anyone Use Foam Patterns
check out "shark's wasp" Sharks wasp this pattern was a bluegill, rock bass and large mouth destroyer this year for me, so happy i found this pattern when i did it was the first pattern |
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Traditional Catskill Dry Flies
OK I heard from Troutnabout and his are in the mail too. To answer Fly_fischa..... yes your flies got here fast and the other shorter distances did not. However none of the other flies smelled of Fost |
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Butt Cap Ideas
My kids have been asking for their own fishing rods, so I decided my first two custom rods are going to be for them. I was thinking of adding a cool butt cap to each rod, customized for each of them. |
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First Build
Such as it is here is my first build, a 6ft split grip spinning rod. I built it for one of my nephews , his school colors are orange and black so I used orange thread plus added a hammerhead shark sin |
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Software Problem SOLVED!
I dont use a fly database but I should. I cant remeber what I need half the time either. I live in Frederick County so thanks for the link on the killer shark. Great reading! |
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Weed guard question
For larger flies #50 soft mono smaller #30 for double weed guards #20 is what I use. In large part because this is what I have already in my arsenal for shark fishing. |
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Backcountry Box
QUOTE (Dezod @ May 13 2010, 03:55 PM) Alright I read an article in Fly Fishing and Tying Journal that talked about the evolution of the small stream box. I live in the Rocky Mountains and ty |
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"Amazing Facts Thread"
Okay guys (and gals) this is the "Amazing Facts Thread." Is how it works is: Someone posts an amazing fact, and below that they write a subject that the next person has to base his fact on. |
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What Camera/lenses do you own
These where shot with the 7D 20d nikon coolpix is the cuba shot with shark We used 7d for the crabs ..Chuckingfluff you have to get that camera under water its a wicked camera for underwater |
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Dinosaurs Everywhere
QUOTE (smallieFanatic @ Feb 27 2010, 12:49 PM) Yeah, I've seen the shots! Very cool! Don't worry about the carbon dating part though, it really isn't very reliable. Think |
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Matching the hatch on the Yuba
Spent the day on the Yuba with Dave Sloan. Should have been a huge Skwalla hatch day. They were everywhere. At one point I had half a dozen on my hat!We parked next to a foam seam to avoid crowdin |
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Pike/Muskie/Taimen Flies
Good looking flies! I've used that "hair" before. It was old material but came in very handy for some shark flies. The card it was glued on was labeled 'Big Fly Hair".hav |
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BTW mad prop's for 3m
After my peoblem with shark skin, I called them and now they are going to replace it with two lines of my choice-------"f"ing cool right |
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Atta Girl!
Mini Fly Gal Katie Eisele shows the sea who’s boss by landing this 12lb blue shark!
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SA Shark Skin do you like it?
I am curious if users of shark skin are happy with it. I purchased a WF-5wt. this year[ 2 months ago] And after gettin over the rediculous amount of noise it makes,which sounds like it's sawing t |
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What kind of fly line do you use.
What kind of fly line do you guys use? I have Rio, S A, Air Flo. I'm not a really fan of my S A. Doesn't even come close to my Air Flo, or RIO. All in all I like my RIO line just because of t |
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Hair Spinners, Bass buggers and Muddling Maniacs
Guys A friend of mine who spins saltwater plugs asked me to tie him up some tail teasers and hooks. I thought a different approach may be to try and make a forked tail from spun deer hair. Having on |
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Albies in Avon by the Sea
Hit the salt yesterday predawn to try to get the last of the NJ Albies as their heading north. Caught two and lost another. It really is amazing how these guys fight. You should feel what a fish fi |
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My biggest tie ever!
Good Day, Good Job! Largest I have tied on was a 16/0 shark hook. Now this guy ties BIG:http://www.fantasyflies.com/portfolio.shtmlSteelie |
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SECRET SANTA SWAP 2009!!!!!!!!!
Got my package yesterday and now have to wait till Xmas morning to know what's inside. From the size of the box, no great white shark imitator in there. Have a good weekend everyone. |
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My first Wasp
Hi all been fly fishing for about two years, mostly feshwater for largemouths and recently started fishing in salt. Best fish so far is a 28" Snook caught on a 6wt set up.I've messed about wi |
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Loading a 10/0 iron
I don't tie on those types of hooks though I do have one 15/0 shark hook that I was going to tie a midge pupa on as a joke for a friend. I believe that any standard DynaKing jaw set will hold the |
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