Suggestions for a traveling kit
I fly out for most of my trout fishing,and I never know what I may need. I take a kit most times. The sipper bag is 11 X 8 and has a small three ring binder. There are 12 heavy zip lock bags that f |
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Fly Tying Inventory
I wouldn't say I have TOO much stuff, but it's been accumulating since moths wiped me out 34 years ago. I fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything in a fly shop that I don't have i |
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Clousers!
Yesterday I sat down & tied up a few Clousers. Been awhile since I did any tying, so am a bit rusty.
Mustad jig hook # 90726, box label says 2/0, but closer to a #2
Thread Danville, Flat Depth Ra |
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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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Sunrise Flymph
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/sunrise_flymph.jpg[/img]
[B]Sunrise Flymph[/B]
Hook: Grip 14723BL #14
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, grey
Hackle: Whiting Coq de Leon hen, medium pardo
Tail: Br |
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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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Trout Nymph Swap?
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OK, I've decided on an |
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Sparkle Dun Variant
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/sparkle_dun_variant.jpg[/img]
[B]Sparkle Dun Variant[/B]
Hook: Ashima F-45 #14 (or equivalent)
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, olive
Wing: Deer hair (see note)
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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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video - Connemara Black Variant
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/video/connemara_black_variant_clip.jpg[/img]
[b]Connemara Black Variant[/b]
Hook: Kamasan B175 #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Butt: Da |
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Connemara Black Bumble
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/connemara_black_bumble.jpg[/img]
[B]Connemara Black Bumble[/B]
Hook: Grip 14723BL #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Butt: Dan |
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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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Connemara Black Variant
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/connemara_black_variant.jpg[/img]
[B]Connemara Black Variant[/B]
Hook: Kamasan B175 #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Butt: D |
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Luck o' the Irish
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/luck_o_the_irish.jpg[/img]
[B]Luck o' the Irish[/B]
Hook: Kamasan B175 #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Butt: Gudebrod w |
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Saltwater FL rod off the bench
This one is for a customer that plans to use it down in FL for Snook & Redfish.
Blank- Batson Travel/spin 12-20# 7ft 3pc
Reel seat- Acrylic insert
Grips- All exotic corks
Guides- Pacbay inserted |
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new member HELP
Start out with an easy pattern like a buzzer: you will need a twelve or 14 size hook, black or red thread, silver wire or silver tinsil. First, put the hook in the vise, and start wrapping with the th |
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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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Squimps
IMO, color is least important for surface lures, the commotion & movement they make is what's important. I use a couple of basic colors the most, white, black, chartreuse, and sometimes yellow |
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RBF: Mothers Day Rod
I got contacted by a customer that I have built rods for in the past about building a rod for his mother for Mothers Day. I always try to take care of my customers no matter how much work it means for |
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Mothers Day Custom Rod
I got contacted by a customer that I have built rods for in the past about building a rod for his mother for Mothers Day. I always try to take care of my customers no matter how much work it means for |
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Black ghost
Tail/beard: yellow rooster saddle
Body: black floss
Rib: silver mylar
Wing: white marabou |
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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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Which knots are using? to anchor your fly
Which knots are using to anchor your fly to the line?
My improved clinch not doesn't seem to improved.I was fishing a river yesterday where salmon a sea trout play caught one or the other but it |
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Back to Our Roots
When I first started fishing, I was taught to use a fiberglass fly rod to catch Trout in the streams flowing off the East side of the Sierra Nevadas...my brother and I would slither through the under |
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tube materials
You can make a very weak sub of the turbo by fitting a small sequin up against the hook eye then a cone. Make sure the sequin is faced cup out so it causes the wobble and pulse. You can't spey wel |
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Sheepsfoot
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/sheepsfoot.jpg[/img]
Sheepsfoot
Hook: Partridge Barbless Ideal Nymph #10
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Rear hackle: Guinea fowl saddle hackle, dyed brown |
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A.P. Variant
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/ap_variant.jpg[/img]
[B]A.P. Variant[/B]
Hook: Nymph hook 1XL #14
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, grey
Weight: Lead wire, thorax only
Rib: Wire, silver
Tail/wing |
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Craft Store Alternative Supplies?
In a local craft store, I found glass beads with a silver internal lining which work GREAT for the flies I tie. I am a beginner tyer. I also do all I can to patronize fly shops. When I asked the lo |
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International Fly Dressing Corp Hong Kong
Do any of you old timers remember an import company called INTERNATION FLY DRESING CORP?
It was based in Hong Kong and run by a chap named Jimmy Younger.
I had some of their prices lists in the early |
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RBF: NFC FW 461-1 IM
A few months ago, I posted about this 'cursed' rod that I started. I just realized that I never posted the pics of the finished rod.Blank: NFC FW 461-1 (IM)Guides: Black AlconiteWinding Check: Strubl |
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RBF: Custom grip with broken blank
This is a custom grip which I turned from Cocobollo with a sterling silver pattern embedded, encompassing a blue topaz stone at the thumb position. The butt section blank was broken recently and I am |
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RBF: New Winston Acsent 8' 3wt
getting my rods reduced - just finished a Winston Acsent 8' 3wt for material cost only Rod Blank = $70, reel seat and insert $20, grip $15, guides $15 blank color = champayne, transparent maroon silk |
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buying a fly rod
I can recommend the Albright Topwater Outfits now on sale for $120 for rod, reel, backing, fly line and leader. We use the 9 ft 5/6 wt to teach our classes.
The reel is metal instead of plastic |
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MAY 2012 ---FLIES FROM THE VISE
Wet Flies
LA Laker (Sorry I will Get Harassed Because I Am Going For The Heat But I Didn't Have The Colours)
Tag & Rib - Holo Tinsel Medium Pink
Body - Chartreuse Thread & Black Hackle
Th |
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A little Help!!!!!!!!!!!&#
Sent you a PM. I'm in Afghanistan too and spend most of my evenings behind the vice. Depending where you're at i may be able to help you out a bit with some pointers from the little bit i kn |
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Uses for Pig Hair
Bristles are great for salmon shrimp flies. To mimmick the feelers. Snaelda, Frances, Pot Bellied Pigs etc. Google boar bristle flies for more info. They stay fairly coarse and stiff so not sure if yo |
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STP Frog Lands Upside-down
Adding weight to the belly might be the easiest thing to try. Storm, the lure company, sells a product called Suspend Dots, or Suspend Strips, which are both pre-cut pieces of zinc I believe, not lead |
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How do you eat yours?
Cold smoking salmon is awesome - I just picked up [url="http://www.amazenproducts.com/"]THIS[/url] pellet smoker that I put inside my smoke cabinet to cold smoke. In a week or two I'll s |
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Murray
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/murray.jpg[/img]
[B]Murray[/B]
Hook: Mustad C49S #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, claret
First hackle: Hen, dyed ruby
Second hackle: Hen, natural light dun - |
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Hello From Scotland
Hello, just joined and probably won't say a lot, but I'll post plenty fly pics when I get the time.
Fish over here in Scotland for wild Browns and Atlantic salmon, occasionally Grayling.
Loo |
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video - Black Pennell
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/black_pennell.jpg[/img]
[B]Black Pennell[/B]
Hook: Mustad 94845 #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Hackle: Hen, natural black
Tail: Lady Amherst tippet ba |
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FTF Video: - Luc Brais - OrangeBlosson_TUBE
[url="http://flytyingforum.com/video/OrangeBlosson_TUBE/119/"][img]http://d3nh6es96whrr8.cloudfront.net/videos/images/ANMMSTTB00011_640.jpg[/img][/url]
fly tying, Steelhead, salmon,tube patt |
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Bird Fur
Here is one where I have used Whiting Bird Fur as the spey hackle:
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/pintail_spey.jpg[/img]
[B]Pintail Spey[/B]
Hook: Partridge Salar #6 - silver
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Black Ghost first attempt
if youre going to use that hook, you will need to downsize your materials
shorten the tail and thin it out some
smaller and shorter wing hackles
use fine or medium silver tinsel, not gold
heres a |
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RBF: king salmon fly rod blank selection help
I'm going to be building a king salmon michigan fly rod. This rod will be tested on kings that are 30+ lbs so i'm looking at either a 9 or 10wt, 4pc 9'-0". The issue is what blank to use for these mon |
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Bull/Brown Trout Streamers
A modified muddler minnow tied all black with a black feather tail and replace the turkey feathers tied in before the deer hair with a strip of black rabbit. Tie a silver tinsel body and a silver cone |
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Anyone ever have a fly rod snap on a backcast?
I broke a brand new Payne graphite 9wt fishing for steelhead on the Salmon River in NY. It was 17 degrees out. I hooked and landed a nice steelie and hokked a second one. When I set the hook the rod e |
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Materials
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again i'm assuming this i |
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Green Intruder
That links great. I have seen that technique before but never used it in my tying and the written word didn't stir the old brain cells for me. I will look at the pins and maybe tie up some prawn p |
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RBF: Looking for a reel seat
I've been looking for days for a fly reel seat for one of my projects. 9' 5wt rod, I need a seat with some type of black insert, and nickel silver hardware. Anyone know where I can find one? I've cons |
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RBF: Heavy FW and light SW rod recomendation
I have a customer that has asked for a price on a rod as described in the topic title. I was looking at an MHX F908-4. Question is: the guide calculator has one set of spec's. Spec's for the MHX a |
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Tippets -- Variations in diameter and lb Test
Thanks for the pointers.
Furled -- not folded -- leaders. I knew it was not quite right but close enough for a geezer.
I actually bought some of the leader rings w/o thinking how in the heell I qou |
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Tying a Riffle hitch
Here are two links that should help you out
http://www.jeromefarnsworth.com/salmon-article1.html
http://www.faqs.org/fly-fishing/Pe-Si/Riffling-Hitch-Waking-Fly.html
Art Lee has a very nice book on |
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How Do I Photograph "Floating" Flies?
[color="#0000FF"][size="3"][font="Comic Sans MS"]Parts of the Margaree are open for trout, salmon doesn't open till June 1st I believe. One thing about Nova Scotia, t |
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