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Everything posted by cphubert
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Yes winter caddis usually come off around 10 am to 1 pm some colder days a little later. google Dave Goulet's winter caddis, easy tie, pretty effective 20's, 22's. I don't go smaller than that anymore unless I tie them on the tippet prior to leaving the house I've dropped my share of them with wet cold fingers and unless I'm standing on the snow I never find them.
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Whiting Gold Cree Saddle - Gold in more ways than one $$$
cphubert replied to mikemac1's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
Not $375.00 nice I have a couple cree necks and I rarely use them. Honestly I preferer the results of grizzly/ginger or grizzly/brown mixed. -
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I believe your first picture is more appropriate for Alaska's salmon (Pacific Salmon) the classics and hairwing are generally for Atlantic Salmon. Check the regulations for Alaska, Mark Knapp (if he ever stays home from fishing long enough🙄) would be a better & current reference. (yes I am jealous🙊)
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Waiting for spring, the signs are starting. Boat (canoe's) registrations showed up today with my 2nd of the year seed catalog. My real indicator is the male red wing blackbirds at the feeders should be within a week or two, might run a little later this year. Had my first snow rain mix today, good heavy wet snow if the ground was bare it used to be called poor man's fertilizer. Still plenty of ice, but the trout season ends this weekend then it will be jigging perch until the ice fails. Nothing beats fried perch except fresh fiddleheads and trout. Come on spring!
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Should be in the mail tomorrow have a big mess of pheasant fibers to clean up.
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A couple with pheasants, first for the swap Mrs.Simpson. the second I made up for the bass on their beds this spring I'm calling it the bedbug, hope to get a few largemouths to object to it swimming near them Mrs. Simpson- tied NZ style- hook mustad 3366 #4, red thread, black bucktail tail, body fine red wool, 2 ringneck rump church windows mounted @ half hook shank, 2 ringneck church windows @ head. Lot of half used golden pheasant skins hanging around ... Bedbug- hook mustad 3366 #1, black thread, tail- 4 golden pheasant yellow saddle feathers 2 per side, body- redish brown golden pheasant flanks wound collar hackle style until you reach the head (7 feather in this case) cheeks- 2 green neck feathers, 1 per side with ringneck neck feather centered.
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I bought one in the early 70's from CMP still have it.
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Salmon fishing prior to Canada & the United States was a sport for noble gentlemen, lords, and kings. Many English salmon rivers where closed to fishing for commoners (the fish of kings). The flies to angle for the king of sportfish, started as drab colored similar to trout flies. As the British warships and regiments roamed the world the nostalgic officers sent home rare plumage's for ladies millinery and they found their way into salmon flies and they where rewarded with gaudy flies when home on leave. Sometime in the mid 1800's (1845 Jock Scott, believed as the first noted) they became the Elizabethan era flies we know as classic's, as gillies seemed to be in competition to tie complicated, colorful, gaudy patterns. Salmon struck at them all probably more from form and presentation than beauty and complexity, but the era was born and ran strong until around 1930 or so as the supply of some material start to disappear. North American fishermen generally lacked access to these materials and developed the hair wing salmon flies popular today. George Kelson's book The Salmon Fly (1895) lists around three hundred patterns many where shown in color. (consider that most fly dressers where not open to sharing their craft) references for timeline and material; Joseph Bates Jr, Poul Jorgensen
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I'm in pattern TBD.
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Well at least you could use hair coloring to dye it😇
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I use white or colored wings so I CAN SEE the fly on the water, most ants don't last long on the water surface (sink & drown) good pattern to fish wet also.
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Help to Identifying Just What it is That I'm Looking at
cphubert replied to Baron's topic in Fly Fishing Gear & Techniques
1st looks possibly like a BWO blue wing olive (Ephemerella attenuate), the 2nd is certainly a small caddis hard to distinguish with light in photo. -
Thanks it came out of a perceived necessity. I can move it and my portable bench into my travel trailer and keep the same continuity.
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I also have a old c clamp medallion without markings other than the company name and pat.# on bottom. It was gifted to me from a very good friend and commercial tier. I don't know how many thousands of flies he tied in it but I never heard him talk poorly about the vise and he would have if there was a problem. Left it to me in case my dyna king failed, it hasn't.
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DB welcome to the site, we all start out with some ugly flies the fish don't mind most of them. lot of good information here and on the web you'll be filling a box with your beauties soon.
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Let's start the Year thinking small fly swap
cphubert replied to vicrider's topic in Fly Swaps & Contests
🤣🤣 olvídate de las moscas yo tomaré sopa de elote -
Blast From The Past - The Natalie Rebecca
cphubert replied to SalarMan's topic in Artistic & Classic Salmon Flies
Wonderful tie George, next time you contact Geert give him my best wishes. -
now I feel better about being a southpaw🙃
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very nice
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The argument is not circular because of experimental evidence that operant conditioning exists in in fish, especially trout. Please expalin how the following experiments are "circular" per the definition below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning There is abundant scientific evidence for operant conditioning not only in fish but specifically in trout. I refer you to The Mind of the Trout: A Cognitive Ecology for Biologists and Anglers By Thomas C. Grubb. The section below specifically addresses operant conditioning. An initial snippet is below but you can read several pages more that follow. I feel like I'm back in the Mess, seeing one of my brother Chiefs engage a scientific member of the Wardroom. With no bitter end sighted, the only question is cutlasses or muskets?
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Matthew, welcome to the site, the first rule are their are no real rules to fly tying. Classic patterns are copied but your patterns are your art for your creativity first. Fish don't care if its classic or not and nether do most on this forum. Tie with what material you have, your flies look fine and I would fish them without issue. I hope you enjoy the site I think most members are here to help each other. Feel free to ask questions or add your 2 cents, just be respectful. Your probably a Bruines fan but I wont hold that against you, yet....😁
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I keep looking at the colors they go well, but just not my style. The cork and seat are top notch.
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Baron, welcome to the site. Your in good company and I don't think you will need to sit on your hands. That is funny, good introduction. In the summer of 1804, Washington crosses the Delaware once more.. Armed with a rod and casting flies, Reaches the shore to tell fishing lies...
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Good thing you would be buying hooks by thousands to use the mops from squatch's slippers!