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Sham, very cool video & your flies look excellent too! One small point & I know you may be limited to what materials you have available, but take note of the thickness of the olive hair compared to the white. When possible, use a thinner hair. It will provide a better motion/action to the fly particularly for smaller size hooks. A size #2 is a decent size, but not a big hook for that thicker hair. Deer tail hair is great tying material, but can vary greatly in both length & hair thickness. Of course, if that's all you have available you have to go with it!
When I need bucktail hair I look for the finest texture I can find, even if that sometimes means it won't be as long. I'l take a thinner hair that provides better motion over a longer fly most any day! That thicker hair is still useful, but on much bigger size flies if you tie them large.
Thanks...
Noted. When you mentioned about it then only I have noticed that the olive hair is quite thick. No wonder i don't feel good look at it. Feel like something is not right but just don't know what it is. I didn't know about it and just like you said, I don't have much options since nearby my hometown there are no fly fishing shop. All my fly fishing or tying material is buy online. So I just cannot simply choose properly the materials that I want to buy.
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Hi,
Thanks for the positive feedback. Look so simple in the youtube. But it's not really that simple actually. Last night I tied another 4 just for practice session. And so suddenly I have a feeling that I'm going to upgrade my vise to rotary type. It's quite troublesome to tie this using normal vise...
and here some action using this clouser minnow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUeoSh-7HU
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Hi All,
Since last week, I've been searching a materials for tying my first clouser minnow. Once I have all the materials, last night, I have tied my first clouser minnow using buck tail for the first time.
I would like to call this Olive Clouser Minnow on hook size 2. Initially, I have planned to use chartreuse color, unfortunately the chartreuse buck tail is sold out. Then, after think over and over, I've decided to use darker color but not to dark. So I choose Olive buck tail. For the belly I still choose like the common which is the white buck tail.
Most of the fly tying video that I saw in youtube is using dumbell eye for their clouser minnow. I don't know some how, I really love to use black bead chain as an eye for my clouser minnow. It just look great for my eye view and hopefully same for the fish.
This morning this Olive Clouser Minnow is tested on freshwater pacific tarpon and it's working fine. Got a lot strike and at last managed to catch one 28cm pacific tarpon. Hopefully this is also work fine on my landbase saltwater fishing that I've planned at the end of this year where between 26th-31st Dec this year.
Cheers.
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Hi,
I'm just make it simple. Took picture and upload it in my facebook account but that picture only me can see it. I don't know some how, feel so lazy to write down on so many things. But, I'm just a newbie anyway.
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i've one question... is it ok if i don't want to add epoxy and eye.... and i want to use bead chain as eye... is it still call thunder creek minnow?
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I've never tied a dry fly... and this pattern should be my first dry fly that I will tie... thanks for sharing....
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Nice! Thanks for sharing...
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Sham, welcome! We have the Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) here in Maryland & some other areas. They're in the Potomac River system which separates MD & Virginia plus a few other rivers. It is considered an invasive species by our natural resources biologists, but has established itself & is spreading it's range. I've not caught them myself, but know a guide who targets them with both flies & conventional tackle. I recently read that 2 world records have been set in tributary creeks of the Potomac in VA for this species so they're growing large here.
The Northern is reported to be good to eat too, but I had not heard anything about any healing properties with them. They're aggressive as well, but seems they can be finicky at times and can be hard to catch. When it was first known that they were in the Potomac, there was all kinds of myths reported with them, such as they would be eating everything & would deplete our other fishes or they could not tolerate the cold winters here or the salinity in the tidal waters. None of that has proven true so far. It was feared they would out compete our bass & possibly deplete the bass populations, but it seems that has not happened either. I've read that bass are feeding heavily on their young since they spawn more often than the bass.
When you can please post some of your flies! We all enjoy seeing patterns that others around the world tie!
Thanks...
Will post some of my favorite flies once I've received my new fly tying tools kit soon... but my flies so far don't have a name and very ugly... but i don't know some how, the fish love it... that's more important i guess... hahaha...
Whenever I tie a fly, I'm doing my best to think like fish... for example... if you catch a hopper and throw it into water... then the fish bite or eat it... so the question here... is it the fish know that the thing that they bite/eat is a hopper? Even though that is the first time that fish see the hopper... same thing with the color because most of the fish is a blind color...
But lately, I really have no idea what to tie... for now, I'm trying to master all the classic flies... there are still a lot of classic flies that I have not tie yet...
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Hi,
I've done some research and found the fish name at fishbase.org. You may go to the web if you wish to read more about it by searching using the scientific name...
malay / english / scientific name
Ikan Bulan / Indo-pacific Tarpon / Megalops cyprinoides
Haruan / Striped Snakehead / Channa striata
Puyu / Climbing Perch / Anabas testudineus
Siakap Merah / Mangrove jack / Lutjanus argentimaculatus
Kerong / Jarbua Terapon / Terapon jarbua
Sepat siam / Snakeskin gourami / Trichopodus pectoralis
Sepat ronggeng / Three spot gourami / Trichopodus trichopterus
Cheers...
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Hi Sifu Dron Lee... you're here too... just found this forum a few weeks ago... it's really good to see you here.... hahahaha...
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Whooo hoooo, Sham !!!!
That's what I am talking about !!!!
Lots of people here from other parts of the world, very few pictures of "local" fish we don't see here.
Except for the tarpon and the snakehead, those ALL look like they'd be beautiful additions to an aquarium.
The Puyu looks like an Amazon Archer Fish ... very similar body shape.
What does "MJ" stand for? Looks like a sea bass or surf perch.
The Kerong and the Sepats are beautiful fish.
Thank you ... very much ... for posting those pictures !!!
thanks...
i think MJ stand for Mangrove Jack..... very aggressive and strong fish... I caught that on wt2/3 fiberglass rod... really give a good fight....
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The Baby MJ looks like a cichlid, but they are all freshwater, and you said saltwater.
I think MJ is the saltwater species... but they like to find food in freshwater... they can live both on saltwater and freshwater like baramundi...
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Hi All,
Is it okay if I want to share some of fishes that I have caught at my hometown, Malaysia... maybe some of it you see it for the first time.... all small... but size doesn't matter... and I'm so sorry, some of the species, I don't know the english name...
Let start with the most fish that I have caught...
The pacific tarpon... live in freshwater... small tarpon species
Haruan... one the snakehead species...
This fish is called puyu... small fish... average size 10-15cm for the adult... if you're managed to catch more than 15cm can be consider monster already...
Next is the only salwater species I've ever caught. Most of the time I like to go for freshwater fishing....
Baby MJ
Kerong... I'm sorry... I have no idea what is the english for this one...
And next... the most hardest fish to catch... and I think it is going to be once in a life time. I don't think I'm going to catch others in the future... and I have went through a lot of difficulty just to catch this fish and I have study about this fish diet almost 3 months... and of course the hardest part is to design the fly pattern for this fish...
Sepat Siam
and Sepat Ronggeng.... I'm sorry I have no idea what is the english name for this Sepat Species...
Actually I have another 2 species which are the running water spicies... but I couldn't find the picture... will update once I have found the picture...
Hopefully you'll enjoy with this...
Thanks and Cheers....
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Think maybe I could rub some snakefish oil on my scalp and regenerate hair follicles? If that worked, they'd be fished to extinction overnight!
Hahaha... but not all snakehead species has this kind of healing power. Only this one... The Channa striatus species.... So far I only know this species can be found in Asia like Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar...
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Dear zairusdee,
I made the Wings the following Way: I took a picture it the Wing and brought it with Photoshop to the right size and printed it out. Then I fixed it with stripes on the Table. Over that I fixed a sheet of clear foil and then layed every single vein made from Moose Maine Hair and glued them in with Super Glue. After their all in I flood the Spaces between them with Super Glue and press on another sheet of clear foil. Now cut out with a Scalpell and clear the Edge with a fine Scissor. ... Done :-)
MW
OMG... sounds easy... but I don't think I'm able to do it... hahaha... I'll stick to use flash line as my fly wing as always... hahaha....
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Cool! I've heard about them, but never saw one. Do you eat those things?
I'm not... but most Malaysia eat this. This fish has e medical value. It has a nutrition almost equal to salmon. It is also proven by medical research that its nutrition can help to re-generate our cell faster.
Normally people who just had an surgery, injury or women who just delivered a baby is good to eat this fish because it really can help you heal faster. I think this is the most fish caught and famous in Malaysia.
For an angler, this fish being a target because it is very aggressive. Attack almost all type of bait. It can grow up to 3 kg. And very strong and snap my tippet many times already.
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Welcome to FTF Sham! I'm sure you'll pick up a few ideas here and maybe you will have some for us as well.
How in the world did you decide to pick up fly fishing in Malaysia?
I just love fly fishing. Tie my own bait and catch fish. And I have more luck using fly fishing instead of others technique...
Here, just caught one this moorning, Haruan (snakehead), 26cm long on Wooly Bugger...
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Welcome to the family. If you want inspiration look up the postings of Dronlee, who also is from Malaysia. He is a true artist! And he actually catches fish with his art!
Yes... i know him... added to my facebook friends. I do have my own fly pattern but normally i don't target to create a realistic pattern. I like to create a pattern that actually can cheat the fish.. Ugly but killer...
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Nice pattern... thanks for sharing... this pattern should be killer for snakehead species at my hometown.... will try to tie this one and catch some snakehead with it....
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Look delicious...
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Nice... is it floating???
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That look so real... I don't believe if the fish don't take it... and I also my wife will scream like hell if I put this in front of her face... hahahaha....
Do you mind to share how you create the wing???
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Looking good and awesome!!!
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Hi All,
You can call me Sham. I have just started doing fly fishing and tying 3 years ago. It is a quite a challenge at the beginning where the fly community here is quite small and the target species is also quite different.
Well, I'm looking forward to learn more about fly fishing and tying. Really hope that I could get more feedback here.
Cheers!
Best regards,
Sham
My first clouser minnow - Olive Clouser Minnow #2
in Beginner's Corner
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It's fish rising all around... the pacific tarpon boiling...