"maybe one should just go fishing as quick as possible, instead of thinking so mutch about a question that is more likely never to be answered"...
😄
Point taken. Just enjoy it. Ask a question get a thousand different answers.
If we knew the answer, fishing would be boring.
Regards
Ripley
One possibility:
"They", might be cod and not the sea trout. Cod are very common around sunset and sunrise and jump, hunt in the shallows and make "popping" sounds at the surface.
Unfortunately, these cod don't reach great sizes but are good game.
As for missing the fish...That's fishing.
My guess is as good as the next persons...Ask a question get a thousand different answers. There's no right way to fish and conditions employ different tactics.
Standing in your waders (assuming they don't leak), I would of done the same but may have moved on to another area to fish rather than give the cod (if it was them), a bit of a giggle.
Just keep at it...
RD
We are two people that are in need of lift from kopenhagen to odense both friday and sunday (ofcourse we could go by bus) and we will be depending on fellow attenders kindness of letting us co-ride in some car around the summit.
best regards Fredrik
Hi guys, me and Jan is coming to odense sometimes around 12 @ friday and we are both very eager to fish.
If there is some special maillist for the friday och any contact sheet please let me know!
my email is fredrik_odelberg@hotmail.com
best regards Fredrik
You're nutts. I have been through hazmat classes and you're gona kill yourself or somone around you. One drop of that stuff on a door knob at the turning point and left to dry will blow your hand off. It activates with friction. I highly discurage this method.
I just had the pleasure of butchering 6 adolescent and adult roosters for the freezer. Only the adult was skinned, the rest were plucked...not as bad of a chore as most people make it out to be. My favorite way to humanely kill a bird is to have someone hold it quite close to their body and gently roll it over on its back. This kind of relaxes and hypnotizes the bird. After a minute like that the bird is fairly still, I then take a very sharp knife and cut the carotid vessel, making sure I don't cut the esophagus or trachea. The bird bleeds out fairly quickly with its heart still beating so all the blood is removed. Then we skin or blanch for plucking. We don't usually severe the spinal column until after the feathers are removed. It is much cleaner that way.
Just perfect - you guys are the first and last word on wallpapers!
Wooow... Best information on leaders I have ever found.. Thank you so much for your work, you've really done a great job.. There is no better thing around and probably will never be.... So much useful information about the most important thing in Flyfishing, the leader! My compliments
Hey Greg, did more of the same, lost some OK smallies then it got dark. Check out the satellite photo of the place at google maps and you can see where the current runs.
After growing up in the Pacific Northwest amist some of the finest steelhead and samon fisheries I have fished for samon and steelhead by almost all methods. This is one of the finest articals on the basics of tube flies I have read. With out going into detail on just one fly it explains what a tube fly is and what it is used for. It got my mind working and ideas flowing for new patterns to try . I am looking forward to tying and fishing tube flies this year.
Looks a little foolish to be that interested of the pike's survival if you read this NYT article!
Impossible to get rid of pike from a lake whatever methods used.
"more than 500 fish and game personnel began a last-ditch, $16 million effort to rid the lake of pike, the most expensive ever undertaken against an 'invasive species' in California"
16 millions dollar to get rid of pike in one lake and you are talking about gill-grips hurting or not???
Hiya Ruza, I'm from Holland too, and also still rather new to flyfishing (approx. 1 year). I hear fishing for asp is just about the right time now in Holland in the large rivers. Going to try to catch one myself this weekend in the Merwede.
About mudd/roach fishing, this can still be very rewarding. Last year i caught one measuring 34,7cm on a small pheasant nimph. But unfortunately most are pretty small. :(
A friend of me does a lot of asp fishing in the IJssel, maybe he can give you some additional information on this. He is also trying to catch carp on the fly....only caught small ones though 🙄
John,
You have to wonder why there isn't some maker of dryers uses this method for tube flies, everything I've seen is for hooked flies. I keep a box of alligator clips on my table for clamping also, they are handy also for holding your work instead of using your fingers which always seem to get in the way while epoxying. Thank you for the kind comment.
Bumped into you at River Bend on Sunday. Great article. How'd you end up doing?
Hi there... I am very interested in feather.. did any body know where I can get the info regarding horw the feather grow.. their contents and etc... pls help..
Sounds like a nice mixture of species to target Philly, plenty of choice what to catch. I should also try the salt water for a change, never done that but the seabass, mullet and mackerel should be an exciting catch during summer over here. But first I'll keep on working on my fresh water fishing, i ain't what you can call a very good flyfisherman. Started 2 years ago and still learning allthough the learning curve is slighty rising 😉
Sarunas, i was wondering what you meant by rudds, a look at wikipedia shows me it's what we call a roach.Indeed perfect for dry fly fishing with a #3 weight on a hot summer evening. Too bad that, allthough the numbers of these fish are still rising in our waters, the size is shrinking. It's very difficult nowdays to find a rudd over 15cm in Holland :( Used to be a lot better if i can trust the stories i've heard.
Hi Morten,
That was a poor example, the short hackle was what I had at the time.
Here are some better -
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpb9fbf8ca_1b.jpg
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpaaa09ff6_1b.jpg
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpde3ab27e_1b.jpg
As you can see they have quite long hackles, especially the Devonshire Doctor.
They were, and still are, used on the streams of Exmoor and Dartmoor as wet and dry flies.
If you have a look on my site at the earlier 19thc Cutcliffe wet flies, which they derived from,
you will see that large cock hackles were popular then.
There are no illustrations of Cutcliffes' flies, so I had to base my dressing of them on his text.
Here is my site address
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/index.html
Have a look under - Devon & West Country Flies - 19th Century - 20th Century.
Interesting artical. Built my rotary dryer from a rotisserie motor and three foot length of steel rod. Epoxy small alligator clips to a couple of dozen spring cloths pins and you have a dryer that changes the angle of the fly quickly (preventing sags) and you can easily remove or add flies. The three foot rod allows you to sort by cure time.
Hi,
I had and old Danish book once, by a guy called Poul Friss. It had a lot of spider patterns as Dry flies in it, all tied with a hackle twice as long as the shank and no tail?
The picture of "your" half stone is with a short hackle, is that particular to that pattern, or was it the style of all spider dries??
Chers
Morten, as you have no doubt noticed, I am rather keen on them myself.
One small point, The West Country Wets are, strictly speaking, South Country Wets.
They are not very well known outside the West Country, that is the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset etc. There is rather a limited literature about them.
Although quite a few of the 20th c. patterns are used as dry flies in many parts of the UK.
The Half Stone and its variations is probably the best known. In the mid 20th c. upright winged dry flies became less popular and 'spider' cock hackles were more used in the UK and so quite a few of the West Country Wets were used as dries.
For anyone else who is interested, here is a picture of a Half Stone, which I tied on a modern size 14 dry fly hook.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpba5759dc_1b.jpg
p.s I liked your sea trout fly, it has affinities with W. H. Lawries 'All-fur Flies', a book I can highly recommend.
I agree with Martin.
Please keep the transport down to a minimum as we are driving and using the facilities at the Wedellsborg Royal Estate.
There is an abundance of deer and other wild animals so driving is to be kept to an absolute minimum. No exceptions, and no empty seats in any cars.
The estate is owned by the Count Bendt Wedell and is supervised by the game-keeper and forest rangers who are aware of our invasion.
We will drive through as a group and leave as a group.
1 place in my car is booked and that leaves 3 seats.
I live on Fyn (Wedellsborg), so shuttling is: to-and-from the hostel in Odense.
First come first serve.
Ripley
My danish fly stroke again yesterday,( in f..... stormy weather), ca 500 m from where my local river runs into the sea. Not really sure if this fish is spawner, or if it was just sneaking around the river opening. Anyway I relased it, and hope that this fish now have the knowlege to avoid attacks from the many spin fishermen upstream.
Chers
Morten.
NB. Not really Fishporn what I am presenting here, but I was quite stressed by operating the catch and my my NIkon D70 at the same time ;)
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