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  • Reply to: Real Enough!   18 years 2 months ago

    Hey Martin -

    Hope you are well. I have linked my recipe for this stonefly to your pic rather than post a copy, and included credits to you for the photo. FYI

    I hope you fish that fly - it has been good to me!

  • Reply to: Beginner's Buzzer   18 years 2 months ago

    it looks cool

  • Reply to: First two kinds   18 years 2 months ago

    Axel,

    I do have a favorite. In the article you will find the following sentences:

    Danish Pastry Fly
    Some flies just work, and this is one that works for me. Its history has been told here already. One thing, which remains to be told, is that 74 out of the 120 sea trout I have caught during the last three years have been taken on this pattern.

    Find a link to the pattern in the article.

    Martin

  • Reply to: First two kinds   18 years 2 months ago

    Nice page, but have you (for you) the one and only best fly? (seatrout)
    I mean the absolut favorite fly for 80% fishing.

    Regards and knaek og break from Axel (Germany Kiel)

  • Reply to: A good reason to tie flies   18 years 2 months ago

    Hellow Martin

    A note to you and the staff. Thank you----all for a bang up job, the GGF web site has a little something for all of us who enjoy the sport of fly fishing an tying our flies. I bought Leon Link's book Tying Flies With CDC last year after seeing flies with CDC from GGF. 80% of fishing is with wets, soft-hackles, nymphs, this cdc material incorpated with other materials has improved many of my flies. The Zuddler is a fly from your site that has been good for bass an hybrids this year for me. I am looking forward too trying the Bow River Bugger this spring for Large Mouth Bass here in Georgia. From your picture it looks like you are snowed in. Good tying time. Jan. Feb. are the tying months for me. No snow here but cold-wet- windy a lot of the time.

    Thanks again for all your hard work to make GGF an enjoyable web site for all.

    ED Madan. Lagrange, GA.

  • Reply to: Our lunch stop during a r...   18 years 2 months ago

    Do it Doug. You will not be disapointed. Plan for at least 5 days in Nov or Dec.

  • Reply to: Cork cleaning   18 years 3 months ago

    Great! Thanks for the tip, I've been looking for a way to clean my rod handel. Thanks again.

  • Reply to: Epoxy Miracle   18 years 3 months ago

    Ole (and Hans),

    I haven't caught hundreds of fish on this pattern, and neither has Kasper, the originator, but in spite of this I am quite certain about the fact that "nibbles" and missed strikes are not due to the length of the fly and the placement of the hook, but caused by the way that some fish don't strike the flies, but rather tests it or merely touches it.

    This is of course a pure theory on my behalf because I only have some loosely formed ideas about how the fish actually behave when they follow a fly and open their mouths over it. From my fishing for trout and other species, my guess is that a fish, which really wants to swallow a food item, does not hesitate or nibble or taste - it swims forward at a fast pace, opens its mouth widely, sucking in the food, and often turns away after that. This I have seen on videos showing fish taking dry flies on the surface, saltwater fish taking streamers and bass and pike striking lures.

    If the fish does this with any fly, long or short, it will hook itself.

    Think of some of the flies used for other fish: sand eel imitations for striped bass, long streamers for pike not to mention the long, green string flies used for barracuda. These flies can be up to 20-30 centimeters long (almost a foot!) and still the fish manage to get hooked.

    I have caught very small fish on the Epoxy Miracle and they were very well hooked indeed. Look at the picture in the article. This has happened to me several times. So I believe that larger fish will have no troubles at all swallowing this relatively small fly and getting hooked on the hook.

    Martin

  • Reply to: Epoxy Miracle   18 years 3 months ago

    Dear Martin,

    tied also some of the epoxy flies as mentioned in this article. Two questions came up:

    A) Due to the length of the hairwing/tail the hook is located in the first half to quarter of the fly. I think you fished this nice fly already a couple of times. Did you ever experienced due to the length of the tail/wing a higher rate of "ineffective" attacks?

    B) Do you put on first the eyes or first the epoxy?

    Happy new year,
    Ole

  • Reply to: End Result, Wallie via fl...   18 years 3 months ago

    I like the composition of this picture, but I hope the catcher would'nt have to carry that grate around with him!!

  • Reply to: LeaderCalc2007   18 years 3 months ago

    This is one of the best "leader" articles I have ever read. Beautiful and comprehensive. Well done and my compliments. I plan to share it with my fishing buddy. Thanks

  • Reply to: How simple can it get?   18 years 3 months ago

    I had never thought of gar as a sport fish, iv'e only ever seen them used as aquarium fillers.

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