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Have followed throug

Have followed through your series and it makes a much clearer picture of what is required (ok - most of what is required).
I've been reading up on making fly rods (from graphite blanks through to raw 'boo culms) - and am now playing with some bamboo kicking about. It may not be Tonkin cane - but some properties should be reflective - which is fine for now. Starting slowly, building up as I go. But will definately be back off and on to see what's new.

Top notch series Harry - top notch. Thanks for sharing.

Very well put-togeth

Very well put-together article. I might just have a go myself. Thanks very much!

Fabulous, inspiring,

Fabulous, inspiring, wonderful

>>>>Ey jeg bor i malmø

>>>>Ey, jeg bor i Malmö og arbejder i KBH. Har været lidt rundt og kigge på nogle åer, men synes ikke, der har været noget særligt spændende endnu. Af kendte åer er der, hvad jeg ved, Svanåen, Rååen og Nybroåen. Jeg tror, at hvis man skal have bedre fiskeri, skal man nok en anelse længere op til Ätran. Men der sker vist ikke det helt store lige nu, som jeg kan se på fangstrapporterne. Hvis du hører om noget selv, må du meget gerne skrive det – jeg kigger også selv efter gode fiskevande herovre <<<<

This looks like that confession I wrote one night when I was picked up for drunk driving.

as most adept flyfis

as most adept flyfisherman are aware trout eat 80-90% of their food on the bottom or just above, I have been using the nymph teqnique for about 12 years now and it is the most productive way to catch trout I know.

Great job! Thanks fo

Great job! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. RR

Re: GFFsummit spouses

..I believe you are talking about fishing shops, otherwise it is going to be a very expensive weekend 😄

Hi Vanuz,

[quote="Stephen Wade"]Hi Vanuz,

I could take you to a few waters in Denmark to fish for grayling and browns if you can put up with an english man. ;-)

...if you can handle a beginner, I´d be pleased 😄
....C U at GFF

I don't think piranh

I don't think piranha would be slowed down by waders. =)

Re: GFFsummit spouses

But I thought there was a saying amongst flyfishers: "What happens on Fyn stays on Fyn". 😄

Cheers
--Mike

Stimulator/Dropper Combo

Stimulators make an outstanding part of a dry/dropper combination. All the hair makes it float like a cork. Add a bead-head or stonefly nymph 2 feet or so below the stimulator.

If you tie in a small loop of hard, strong mono underneath the tail, it gives you an anchor point to tie a dropper on. Add your dropper with a loop-to-loop connection.

A stimulator/dropper rig has proven effective quite a few times for me, but usually in riffles or pocket water that is 3-6 feet deep. It's also a good choice when the water is up a little bit higher and cloudy, such as a tailwater in the winter or any stream after a good hard rain.

Cheers
--Mike

Air Bubbles

Glass beads are good on flies that are emergers--caddis and chironimids being the best. Because they can't swim very well, these insects use a bubble of trapped air to float them to the surface of the water so they can hatch.

Sometimes in your float tube you can see the chironies wiggling as they rise to the surface, clinging to their air bubble.

I can't wait to try

I can't wait to try out this method of Czech short nymph fishing as well as to tie up some Bobesh's! Fascinating article.

Hi Everyone......I l

Hi Everyone......I love Realistic Flies which are tied by Steve Thornton. They are soo.....erm......realistic. I love tying the 'Ammonite Nymph'. I have only had missed takes on this fly and am hoping to catch some fish on it especially Chub and Barbel and other course fish in the future.

Yeah, I'm pretty much a

Yeah, I'm pretty much a chironomid freak also. I love first thing in the spring and fall fishing with them. It is pretty cool getting a 10 lbs Rainbow to take such a little pattern. We'll see if these blue guys work come September and October before the ice comes back on.

Well, mullets are ha

Well, mullets are hard to catch. I have been trying out to hook those species with bread fly and had the same reaction. Funny is that bream can get one of those flies but mullet do not seem interested. I will keep trying until I get one!

It's just a brown tr

It's just a brown trout. The red dots are usually lower on the body and closer to the tail.

You can view more brownies, complete with red dots, if you go to the gallery and do a search for "brown".

Re: Blue Chironomids?

I've seen chironies in many different colors. If chartreuse and purple work, why not blue? Remember that fish see differently than we do, and that light is filtered as it goes down through the water column. It's the same reason you would use a purple steelhead fly.

By the way, I love chironimids. I've spent too many hours hooking large fish on small flies from a float tube. The hooking was good, the landing wasn't so great, but it sure was fun.

Need some fill flash

Need some fill flash - we miss the angler's happy face in the shadow. Nice shot overall. No waders on when fishing for Piranah--sounds brave to me!

I think I'll try thi

I think I'll try this for bass

I love how you tied

I love how you tied the gold ribed hares ear! I'll tie that right now!!

this looks like a gr

this looks like a great pattern! I will tie some!

The one thing we use a lot of

The one thing we use a lot of glass beads on are woolly bugger patterns. A black wool with a red glass bead head, or an olive woolly with a green glass bead head and many other combinations. These variations all seem to work very well fishing rainbows in lakes.

I got stung in deep

I got stung in deep water and it well hurt.
Had to put my foot in boilin hot water and walk around on it to squeeze out the poison, That was the lifeguards advice...and it worked.