Reverse Deer Hair Caddis
Hey guys, so with some help from a local guide I've finally started catching some trout. Anyway I've heard a little about tying caddis adults a certain way: Tie it like an Elk hair, only use |
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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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PT variant for European nymphing
Here is a PT Variant tied on curved hook with torax made of Emerger Thread.
This fly is very simple, easy and fast to tie and is working for trout an grayling for entire season, from Spring to Autumn |
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Mayfly for trout
Hi guys:
Here is the fly that I use in this period on Eastern European waters:
[img]http://www.flyfisher.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/10.jpg[/img]
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which kit to get?
I have looked at several kits. Any thoughts on the cabelas kit. I mainly trout fish and the fly selection is pretty small at the local shop. I want to start with a caddis that's what I need becaus |
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New FTF T-Shirt Design
Got no problem with red, white, and blue as it's predominate in a lot of national symbols. I don't like the emblem, however. It's about trout fishing and not so much about universal fish |
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What to start with
I just starting to acquiring the tools of the trade. ... what are the very basic tools that are a "must have"
Some of them are painfully obvious that you need, others, not so much.
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Connemara Black Bumble
very similar to a fly I've been catching some recent sea trout on. Mine had a red floss tail. I have an invite out on a boat in a few weeks and promised to tie up some flies for the trip, might pi |
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RBF: A Lady's Rod...
This rod was built on a 8', 4pc, 5/6 Tiger Eye blank. The grip, reel seat, and fighting butt are made with tulip wood and Flor grade cork. The hardware is all gunsmoke colored and the guides are wra |
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Branson MO
I would venture you will see more browns over 20 lbs in the first four miles below that dam than you have ever seen in a four mile stretch of any of your north western rivers. No offense intended but |
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Cast right, reel right
When I started fly fishing, way back in the day, cast right reel right was the mantra of the grumpy old men who knew it all.
In 1974 I purchased my first good fly reel, an SA System 6 / Hardy Marquis |
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Stockie Killer
This is a prince nymph/pheasant tail creation i came up with while tying red caddis larva flies and prince nymphs. i am not good at recipes so bear with me
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Greetings from NW OH
I thought that I'd introduce myself here. My name is Jason, I'm 34 and live in northwest OH. I got into fly fishing about 2 years ago when we went to Rocky Mountain National Park.
A couple |
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new member HELP
[quote name='Flyman416' timestamp='1336617901' post='505145']
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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Brook Trout Flies
So I am heading to Fortress lake in a month and I am wondering what kind of flies I'll need to catch the big brook trout of that lake. Any ideas? |
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Black Ghost w/ weed guard?
I'm with Tidewater - tie it upside down (preferably with a bucktail wing) and forget about a weed guard. Anything that's gonna be stiff enough to deflect weeds will cost you more fish than it& |
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Squimps
Pete, I'm no expert, but I have done enough surf fishing to know what a tin lure looks like. Diamond lures were originally tin. I've also played with tin, pouring it into molds I have that are |
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Joined today and want to say hello
Hello everyone,
I joined today and just wanted to say "Hi!"
I'm a grandpa and have been fly fishing and tying since I was a young boy.
I live in Utah just a short cast from some gre |
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FTF Fly Pattern - troutguy - Troutguy's Muddler
Little Bull Trout in Montana are voracious. Here is that pattern, in a size #2 in this little trout's mouth. I have caught a bunch of fish with this fly but I don't know of any others where I |
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RBF: 606-4 2wt
This one is for a customer that wanted a clean and subtle little rod for fishing gills and small trout. Blank is a 6'6" 2wt 4pc, rosewood insert with A5 hardware, RHW grip, garnet wraps (no CP) and me |
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Thinking outside the box for carp...
love the pics kind of reminds me of a fishing trip I took about 10 yrs ago I was in Idaho falls Idaho right down town I had casted every fly I had in my vest at some cruising cut throat trout and didn |
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Hi from southwest Michigan
Hi guys! I didn't realize there was a hello forum and just posted in beginners. My name's Dave. I just started tying this week and I'm having a blast, though I'm sure I'm not d |
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Orange Scud
Very fishy looking. Hoping to try some scuds for the sea trout in October. |
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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
Like most pre-schoolers, I didn't jump right into fly casting. (or so my mom always said) We lived on a trout stream, so I was a pretty lucky kid. I started out catching yellow perch and bullheads |
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RBF: Newb Lathe/Grip Question
I have really enjoyed reading these threads, but unfortunately, the custom grip bug bit, and now I find myself with a new HF woodlathe and several questions:1. I glued up a stacked Birch ring/Pondero |
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Manistee River
i live in brethren
i fish the river 5-6 days a week below tippy to sawdust hole
im on vacation now but the water was 4420 lastweek
its still in the 3000s
thats cranking high
most people are finnishi |
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Mono leader material longevity
Like Kirk, I only use the heavier stuff these days. I buy big spools of Trilene Big Game and Seaguar fluoro, and properly stored, they last for years with no problems. I always carry a few extra pre-t |
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Crippled Mayflies
Mayflies can become trapped during any stage of the hatching process. The transition from nymph to dun can be a very dangerous time for any mayfly. Some can become trapped with both wings still in t |
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Cutthroat Streamer Patterns
I don't know where you're fishing, (I'm assuming somewhere in Idaho) but the traditional patterns Tidewater mentioned will work anywhere trout feed on minnows. Marabou streamers are also a |
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two fold question
I have used wide gape hooks designed for non-trout species and don't find them an issue. I dub with synthetic 'dry' fly dubbing which helps buoyancy but also find they are fine with a smal |
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How did you get started tying?
1987, Kittery Maine. I was 26 and I was stationed in Portsmouth New Hampshire for submarine overhaul and had gone spinner bait fishing for trout. Watched an older gentleman working his fly rod. We sta |
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Dry fly carp fishing
Several years ago, I was fishing a local stream for smallies. I was wet wading in water up to my thighs when I saw some swirls at the edge of a weed bed, as I got closer, I could see dozens of damsel |
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A.P. Nymph
[center]The "A. P." in this fly's name could stand for either "All Purpose" or the inventor, André Puyans.
A generic nymph, it looks like a lot of things that live underw |
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May swap club 2012
2 sets came in today both cripples both incredible and both worthy of being trout food for sure thanks flytryer and famill00 |
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Hook Savvy
[quote name='ikerajala' timestamp='1335982833' post='504437']
Around here if you catch a fish, especially a protected fish. You are supposed to just cut the line, so the fish c |
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Allen Fly co.
I buy hooks from them a lot. They are really nice. I did get the trout reel from them for my 5 wt and after 3 months the drag got really weird and didn't really work anymore. |
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waders
cruz-
Waders are prone to leaks, usually at the seams or where the neoprene stocking foot attaches to the legs. Use and care have a lot to do with how long they will last.
There are two schools of t |
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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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Got a Bite
[b]I dont know but it could have been a different kind of brown trout
Kevin[/b] |
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opening day trout
Trout opened here on the w/e, i am going to head out tomorrow for a scout
Finally! |
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MAY 2012 ---FLIES FROM THE VISE
Thanks Piker20, at certain times i have found chinook and coho really fond of the chartreuse flies, going to do some ocean fishing from the shore on the West Coast in a few months, probably for evenin |
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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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How do you eat yours?
Bass, bream, catfish, and crappie I soak in buttermilk and then deep fry in a spicy cornmeal serve with cole slaw, hush puppies and fried green tomatoes. Dorado I blacken on the grill with Paul Prudh |
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Sage TXL-F 3710-4
I've been looking at getting a 3wt rod recently, because in the streams that I fish, many of the trout are tiny and even the bigger ones don't give a great fight on a 5wt. The last time that I |
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RBF: R.B. Meiser switch 11ft 7/8wt
Hi guys!! This is a rod i built for a good friend of mine that asked me to build it for him.Blank is a Meiser switch 11ft 7/8wt, reel seat is AmTak Window seat with a maple burl insert i turned.Grip i |
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Come On!!!
send it to me, the trout are loving that stuff here..I have some fl. orange dubbing that goes green in the water and the fish love it. I tie it on a small jig 1/80 oz. |
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RBF: Ultralight with micros?
Guys, I am looking to build a 5-5.5 ft ultralight panfish trout spinning set up and want to use micro guides. I have no experience with them and was wondering on a rod this small if there is any bene |
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RBF: Explanation of new avatar
The avatar is of huge rainbow trout in the underground Lost Sea near Sweetwater, TN. The largest is mounted in the gift shop- just a bit over 16 lb.! There is no natural food in this underground lak |
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RBF: Real sick people in this world!
Booby trapped trailThought this might be of interest as many of us hike backcountry trails in search for trout, solitude, etc.[b]Reply to topic here http://www.rodbuildingforum.com/index.php?showtopic |
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fiberglass rods
I like the action of my fiberglass rods. I use them for trout and freshwater pond fishing. |
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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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Bull/Brown Trout Streamer Swap
Yes, I think MrFlyFisherGuy had a great moment of inspiration when he suggested the trout streamer idea. We are filling fast with just a few spots left open.
I'm sure we'll fill the swap eit |
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Callin all tubers
I started out tying my tubes on a darning needle, fine for a taster but the tubes move (rotate) and you can't tie well on them IMO.
I bought the Eumer tube fly adaptor and this is stepped so thin |
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Dark Claret Spider
Can't go wrong with Claret for brown trout IMHO and that ones about perfect. |
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Midge Size
I'm in KY, what size midge would be good for here? I fish mainly the red river and the streams coming off of it, and I occasionaly get to go to NC and fish the Natahala for trout and carp (redhors |
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The gray area of fly tying.
"A fly shop owner many years ago, told me if I didn't fly fish for trout, I had no business with a fly rod. This is the type of people & attitudes I'm referring to."
Yep. Ignor |
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