jamie shard

Aha! Thanks, I understand. -j

Thanks everybody! Brewer, could you say more about "feathers and chickboo work great together"? -jamie

Thanks smallieH... look at what I found on the same site: http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/item/NM-790073-0000 Anybody have experience with this product??? -jamie

So, here's what I'm looking for: a grey and white speckled soft hackle that is long enough to use as a wooley bugger hackle, but could also be used in the place of hungarian partridge for soft hackle flies/nymph legs. (Am I describing it well enough? Something with a strong enough stem and long enough to palmer over about 1.5 inches, something with nice markings like partridge hackle...?) Does it exist? -jamie

QUOTE (steeldrifter @ Jun 3 2005, 11:49 PM) QUOTE (wickedcarpenter @ Jun 3 2005, 11:22 PM) fished wacky style Brent...Is that the technical term? Actually it is! It means the hook goes through the middle of the plastic worm so the ends go bouncy bouncy bouncy! -jamie

QUOTE (Blueman89 @ May 23 2005, 07:04 PM) I was out fishing yesterday and found the trout rising to something I couldn't see. The fish were jumping clear out of the water at whatever they were. I wondered if anybody had any suggestions as to what these might be and/or any fly suggestions.I also found a light creamy yellow mayfly coming off sparcely. I was wondering what they might be. I was on Deer Creek in Pittsburgh, not exactly known for it's bug life. Thanks. I faced the same thing in Wisconsin last week. The swarming "midges" were probably the little black caddis, but it could be a true midge. In any case, tiny and black. Mostly the smaller fish were trying to catch these guys by jumping up into a swarm and hoping to get lucky. I wouldn't try to target these flies. The sulphurs were coming off mostly around #18 (really 17), but a few in #16. I had best luck with a amber nymph, like the whitlock squirrel nymph, in a #16 and a pale sulphur parachute pattern also in #16. Hope that helps. -jamie

Thanks Jeff!!!! -jamie

QUOTE (JRG @ May 5 2005, 11:32 AM) the author used that stretchy floss... I think I have that book, too... but if I'm remembering correctly, the hackle doesn' form a flat spiral... it looks more like this: -j p.s. I found the book last night, is the one you are talking about call Tying Flys the Paraloop Way? http://www.countrymanpress.com/titles/Tyin...araloopWay.html Here's other paraloop ties:

I've been trying to figure this out... I saw a fly (somewhere?) that had what looked like a parachute-type hackle spiral, but on the bottom of the torso - but it didn't look like a post was coming out of the bottom. How'd they do that??? -jamie p.s. Ah, found it:

Will, any reason for using red eyes over another color? I tie something similar with silver stick-on eyes on a small lead dumbell (and then heavily coated with Loon head). For the flash underneath, I spin angel hair/wing-n-flash in a wire dubbing loop and then wrap on. These are great patterns for working deep! -js

I've been thinking that the problem comes from calling it "fly fishing" when it really should be "line casting", i.e. using a heavy line, not a heavy lure, to cast. You're not casting a fly, you're casting a line! What you put on the end of you casting line is sorta beside the point. Fly, streamer, bait, whatever! (heh heh, there's some contraversy for you... as requested.) -jamie

Kinda looks like something took a bite out of it! Cool. -js

Thanks for the update! For what it's worth, I found two good articles online: http://www.flymartonline.com/article338.html http://www.flyfishalberta.com/entomology/browndrake.htm Hope they're good reading! -js

I wanted to revive this thread, because I may have a chance to fish the Brown Drake hatch... Dornug, how did the extended body flies turn out? Any other suggestions on brown drakes? Thanks! -js

It seemed like all I could do was approach cautiously, cast cleanly, and try not to have a heart attack while these big fish swam around my fly! After the first take (about 10 minutes into casting), it was hard to cool back down and do it all over again! Thanks for the legged GRHE suggestion/confirmation. It does feel like there is a lot of luck involved. They're not really thinking about feeding. I can't deduce what made the carp take my one fly or ignore the others.... ah, fishing! -js

Thanks for the info! I hear you about the 5wt. I would have felt much better with an 8! Pujic, I actually had some nice peacock herl dragon fly nymphs, but they were heavily weighted. The tricky thing was trying to keep a sub-surface fly visable, since the the water/bottom was soft and so stirred up. I'm thinking that if I had to do it again, I'd suspend my nymph under a small float/big dry fly. I'd cast away from the spawning fish, six feet outside of the action. That way when they were finished and looking to smoke a cigarette, they would see the nymph instead Sounds like natural tones are best... At the bookstore today, I saw a rubber legged hare's ear that seems like it might suspend well and attract well. Anyway, there's some carp that swim in the canal by my apartment each summer. I often see them surface feeding. I look forward to trying cottonwood seed and mulberries this year. Thanks again, -js

I didn't want to divert the corncob fly thread So, here's the scene: I'm out for a paddle in N. Illinois with the lovely girlfriend, 5wt on board just in case. Turns out the carp are spawning in the shallows. So we get into position and I start throwing my mostly largemouth collection of flies at them. Of course the carp are a little distracted , but I figure they were catchable, right? The water was very muddy from all the writhing in the shallows, visability <6", so they weren't seeing anything thrown sub-surface (I think). I only had one take and that was off a big crane fly imitation, sitting on the surface. Got a big bend in the rod, but I didn't set the hook So, two questions: do you think that throwing something sparkly sub-surface would have worked (I was only using natural, muted colors). Biggish ice-dub nymph or the like? It seems like sparkles scare off carp from what I've read, but I don't know... maybe it would make sense in this case? What would have been a better top-water fly? Oh, and I guess I need a lesson in setting a hook It was pretty exciting out there, that's for sure! When the carp finished spawning they would swim out toward deeper water. It was like jaws was coming at us! And putting your paddle down on a carp has to be one of the spookier things in the world! -js