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- Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Permit - me too
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4803
Re: Permit - me too
Permit are indeed crazy. Spooky as hell, and yet quite often perfectly happy to snap up a tiny crab fly that lands out of nowhere a foot in front of their face. I have been much more successful with that tactic than with standard permit ideas. Taught to me by an old Mexican bonefish guide. “Hit him ...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: Flyfishing
- Topic: Freezing air liquid water fishing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1748
Re: Freezing air liquid water fishing
This stuff
https://loonoutdoors.com/products/stanl ... -off-paste
Works for keeping ice off your guides. Having a clean fly line is also important, otherwise it will stick to the frozen guides.
These days I just go skiing when it’s that cold though!
https://loonoutdoors.com/products/stanl ... -off-paste
Works for keeping ice off your guides. Having a clean fly line is also important, otherwise it will stick to the frozen guides.
These days I just go skiing when it’s that cold though!
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:00 pm
- Forum: Flyfishing
- Topic: Strip strike or trout set
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2925
Re: Strip strike or trout set
Lasse, you're right. What I meant to say was that the fish gets off the hook. It's not often that the line breaks because of a strike or a fisk. However, it has happened. When the line breaks it's nearly always in the perfection loop. I use a 9' tapered nylon leader with a perfection loop in the en...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:51 pm
- Forum: Teaching
- Topic: Pressure and sight fishing shots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1607
Re: Pressure and sight fishing shots
Competitive archery does have some similarities to fly fishing. Mostly in the mental side of course. Visualization techniques and mental practice are useful. Spend a lot of time going through the process in detail in your mind visualizing yourself getting it right. Proper practice is also important....
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:34 pm
- Forum: Flyfishing
- Topic: Strip strike or trout set
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2925
Re: Strip strike or trout set
I agree with the above. If you are breaking off 0x tippet on Danish sea trout, you either have bad line or bad knots or you have found some exceptional fish! I believe in strip setting for everything except dry fly trout on light tippet. Certainly for sea trout it’s the way to go. When you find the ...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Bob Church
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2202
Re: Bob Church
I’m sure you will find some interesting things in it, but it will be very dated by now - I think it was first published in 1978! When I first read it, as a kid, I was just starting to fly fish. My dad had done some fly fishing 20 or so years before, but mostly in rivers. Fishing reservoirs for stock...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:58 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Bob Church
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2202
Re: Bob Church
RIP.
After my dad and I read his book “reservoir trout fishing”, probably around 1982, we totally changed the way we fished our local lakes - and started catching a lot more fish!
After my dad and I read his book “reservoir trout fishing”, probably around 1982, we totally changed the way we fished our local lakes - and started catching a lot more fish!
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: Tackle
- Topic: Fly Rod Guides
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4291
Re: Fly Rod Guides
I have built my HT4 with REC SF guides (thin wire single foot guides), and it's the only one of my rods to have "fly rod guides" installed. I fished with it yesterday and was reminded once again why I dislike wire as a guide material. Shooting line was awful - like the line was dirty. Maybe it real...
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Flytying
- Topic: Bernd's spinning fly
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1370
Re: Bernd's spinning fly
Looks like a Devon minnow. (http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/angels.html). I caught plenty of fish on those when I was a kid, though I haven’t used one in decades.
As for whether it’s a lure or a fly, I don’t care. If it works I’d use it.
As for whether it’s a lure or a fly, I don’t care. If it works I’d use it.
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: Flytying
- Topic: Weedless Frog
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4808
Re: Weedless Frog
I assume that you have tried something like this?
https://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/i ... 2a1384.jpg
https://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/i ... 2a1384.jpg