new member HELP
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Start out with an easy pattern like a buzzer: you will need a twelve or 14 size hook, black or red thread, silver |
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Gudebrod size a thread
I've used A thread for jig making, tying up larger bugs, etc. Since it tends to darken and go translucent with the right finish (I use a fair amount of FlexCoat instead of epoxy to finish tarpon |
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Polar Fiber Baitfish
Polar Fiber Baitfish tied on 1/0 & 2/0 Mustad Signature Tarpon Hooks, Bills Bodi Braid and Krystal Flash
Love the movement of PF in the drink |
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fiberglass rods
The first fly rods that I built (mid seventies) were glass, using Lamiglass, Fenwick, and finally Fisher. Since the early graphite (called carbon fiber overseas) was notably fragile I learned to use |
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RBF: Hello Hello!
Hello everyone, my name is (as you may have guessed) Grant. I live in South Mississippi and generally go to the coast to fish off the piers. Recently, I have picked it up more so than in the past and |
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Show me your cicadas
Here you go...
photos aren't great, but you should be able to see what I'm trying to do.
They should catch fish anyway
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Messing with a 4/0 Jig Hook
I'm still just doing a few here and there, but early results have been very promising. Add a light two prong wire weedguard and you can come up with a Clouser that's 99% snag-less in some ver |
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MIA
Hey Ben, listen to us crusty old salty dogs. The tarpon have been sliding up the coast of Florida since before mankind and will likely be doing it long after we are gone. PeterJ and Lykos are right, w |
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Kayaks & Flyfishing
JSzymczyk .....Thanks for your input. From what little I know I believe that my choice would be the tarpon 120 if for no other reason is the the weight difference. I am old, weak, and frail.
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Situation - what would you use?
I'd throw on a bead-headed pink n black woolly bugger. Thats what I did this morning, and managed 2 tilapia and a good sized freshwater australian tarpon (ox eye herring)... Missed a couple more t |
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chinchilla marabou
I ordered from Herter's once.... and I can still remember the poor quality and mis-represented junk I received (serious understatement...).
As far as chinchilla goes the term is still in use in t |
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New Thing
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Thanks, ive only used 3/4 of one so far and gotten about 4 or 5 flies out of it. I may be using it conservatively but i |
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Cuba Fly Fishing Need Info!******
Hey Im going to Veradero, Cuba next week for a family vacation and I want to do some fly fishing, anyone know some good spots to fish or a good guide down there? What flies to use? I'd love to go |
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New to Saltwater
Since I've been using the flat waxed since the late seventies I'm definitely a fan. I probably should have sent that one bad box back to my wholesaler but I'll find a use for it. In ever |
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Everglades report, 9-19 March 2012
With only three days of anglers fishing fly, you'll just have to sort through this a bit...
Most guides are very busy now everywhere in south Florida and the Keys and I'm no exception. Even |
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Eels
We had a guy catch a nice one in a local "no name inlet" last week, I've caught short cobes in the same area on bait. Two fish on the bucket list this year, tarpon and cobia...AND if AN |
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New hooks, new flies
Went to the vise last night and had a little of fly tying "a-d-d". Tied up a couple randoms (per usual for me!) If you want any specifics, Id be happy to elaborate. I used hooks new to m |
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Diver, Tarpon Mouse, Z-force
Messing around with some new materials.. Nothing special, just figured Id post a couple.
Diver
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Tarpon Mouse (as descr |
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haha found this article
It makes saltwater flyfishing sound a whole lot harder than it really is and in trying to impress with eloquency you would think he is discouraging people to fish the salt and that most saltwater flyf |
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Crustaceans
Many thanks Andy and Dave - I'm gonna be leaning heavily on advice from you southern boys in the months to come. I've been tying for stripers and tuna for decades, but I don't know beans a |
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Wedding fishing trip
Lady Fish (Poor Man's Tarpon) and Blue Runners from the beach are a blast. Use #8, 6 & 4 flies in white with some flash. On vacations to Panama Beach, I'll get up before everyone else and |
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Trying some new stuff
Ben, let me know how those circle hooks work out on tarpon flies.... I could never find a use for them at all. I came to the conclusion that a circle hook for a tarpon fly is a solution in search of |
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Musky flies
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It was me.
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Tarpon Bugs
Looked up Brad Lowmans Tarpon Bug Pattern. Used a tiny bit of variation and came up with these Bass Bugs. Striped bass should def eat these up. Thanks brad for a great pattern!
Tied on 4/0 musta |
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Please watch this video
[b]Very nice video. It must be nice to hook something that could weight as much as you do. I have seen just how big tarpon can get when I was in the Navy. I was thrilled last year when I took my best |
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Here fishy fishy fishy!
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Cheffing up a fly box full of pattern recipes Ben ! The old style tarpon flies with marabou, bucktail, s |
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Rabid Dog
I called this fly that because of its erratic action when stripped, it darts around as it dips under the surface and can be kept below by repetitive short strips depending on the cadence you use. Only |
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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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Tons of Tarpon Flies
Great flies Ben! You'll have no excuses now if you don't nail a big tarpon. Hey, what size circle hooks are you using? I use the C71SS a lot for tuna flies - been doing some tarpon flies o |
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Intercoastal water way flies
If you're going to be nightfishing the local docklights, etc. then here's a pattern that will work well. This past week we caught and released lots of trout, a few snapper and jacks, and oh |
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Noob
Howdy!
I've been lurking around fly fishing sites four a couple decades and am hoping there may be a couple folks here I know. I wound up here researching chickens that I could harvest eggs |
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Wild and Woolly
There's a yuppie outfitter in Old Saybrook that's going under, so I went over and got a pretty good deal on a bunch of nice ram's wool from their fly tying department. Rather than knit mys |
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Feeling Squirreley
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[quote]Not so easy... used 2 to 1 amonia (clear) and 20% peroxide (the kind hair supply places sell), sitting i |
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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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Think outside the box
Joe, I really can't help you with specific patterns to imitate any of those, as I've never had any need to do so. The only special flies I tie are a couple of worm patterns, and Joe Bruce' |
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New reel! Now what line?
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I haven't bought a new one in quite some time, but I've always liked the Wulff triangle taper. Really shoot |
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Culebra, PR Questions
Hello,
I'll will be going to Culebra and Vieques in the middle of March and was wondering if anyone had any specific patterns/colors that work well for tarpon or bonefish. Also if anyone knows of |
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Tarpon Ties
Here are some tarpon flies I have been working on...hoping to hook my first this year.
Borski's Green Zima Variant
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to tube or not to tube
I've had a few float tubes over the years, and they are a lot of fun.
The only advantage over a kayak that I can see is: potentially you can pack your deflated floaty in a backpack along with |
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Borski's Green Zima & Hairy Down Under
Tied up some more tonight. Got some new material I wanted to try out.
Borski's Green Zima Tarpon Fly
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Mono weed guards and body extensions
I use both mono and hard mason for different applications. If I'm tying a loop style weed guard I tend to use mono, a little softer and easier to collapse when a fish grabs the fly. I use hard mas |
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2wt set-up
I love my custom 2wt... It was my first flyrod build... Mine is 6ft 2 (lost 4in ) and ive matched it with a redington drift and a hardy full floating 2wt line.
Handles baby australian tarpon to 40cm |
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Fly Ides for April in the Keys
[quote]Tidewaterfly, when you say the flies you "used" to tie for the Keys...I hope it means because your boxes are full, not that you no longer chase tarpon there[/quote]
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shop flies, Swamp rabbits
In the tarpon world that red/black combination has always been called Black Death... I use it in more tradiitonal tarpon flies as well. |
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battenkill vs access
I am a Battenkill man for my striper rods, Tibor for my big sticks. I have large arbor Battenkills on everything from 3wt's up to 10wt's. After that the game changes tremendously. If I'm c |
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Everglades days - Biscayne nights, 7 Feb
Local angler Brad Golub teamed up with visiting angler Vince Williams from Maryland to fish with me this past week with a day in the 'Glades and last night in Biscayne Bay. We had pretty good act |
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shop flies, Tarpon Snake
The Tarpon Snake is done entirely from wide, webby strung saddles (the large fly is done from 6 to 9" saddles). I did an article on it for Flyfishing is Saltwaters magazine one or two years ago. |
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Bite Tippet
I go on fishing trips to the sanibel area at least few times every winter/spring. Headng down in March/April I believe and for sure again memorial day. weekend? When are you heading down there? Last y |
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Islamorada, FL Report
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That's a great mixed bag of fish you got put on to. Congratulations! I can see how you have the blues, |
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Chocktawatchee Bay Destin Fl
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I've caught reds, speckled t |
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Tarpon Flies
That red squirrel Cockroach is a premium tarpon pattern still today. I get orders for a small 1/0 version for baby tarpon as well as the full sized version for the big girls to this day (and I've |
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8wt set up. Help Please!
Fly reels are like any other reel, there's wide range of types & prices. As Capt Bob has stated, there are many within your price range that will do what you need. If you need a reel that can |
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Orvis Access Mid-Arbor Reel??
Need a little more intel. What will the primary application be? A mid arbor reel is great but if you are chasing fast critters a large arbor sure is nice. If you are chasing fish that you will never f |
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Tarpon / NY Lobster, Shrimp Fly
Mix between or could be one or the other - NY Lobster or Southern Tarpon Fly - tied on 3/0 big game saltwater shortshank hook |
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Winter Blues
Now that winter's finally showed its face around here, it's time to start getting serious about tying for the upcoming season. Nothing fancy right now - I'm just going for quantity to fill |
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Bucket List Trips or Species
Steelhead and Salmon for 2012 and Tarpon at some point. I've only seen videos of Tarpon fishing and it looks pretty exciting. |
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Matrinchã
Yes, I usualy fish in freshwater, but i really like to fish for snook and baby tarpon when i have the chance.. |
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Bass Drugs
In small sizes (1/0 on down to as small as #4) those should be very good bugs for night fishing around dock lights down here in paradise. Snook, tarpon, and anything else in the lights (or hanging in |
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Broke in new fly rod
The ole Tarpon toad ehh. Awesome stuff. What color pattern was that toad? And is that Cedar key area? My friend from a fly shop went out there the other day. I wonder if the world is small enough for |
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