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Submitted by Stephen Nagy on

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This is remarkably similar to Polly Rosborough's Casual Dress Nymph, tied with Muskrat.

Geoff,

You can pluck the hens and roosters, and yes, the feathers will grow out again.

This method is not uncommon in certain regions, like in Spain where I have seen plucking of the very expensive Cock de Leon feathers from the roosters. The birds didn't seem to mind much, but they were used to this pretty rough treatment.

Martin

Submitted by Geoff on

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What about just pulling out the feathers you need and letting the Rooster continue to live with a few missing.

Will his feathers grow back?

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Ryan

Glad you liked the article, well there are certainly quit a number of rivers and even spring creek like streams we can highly recommend to go for Dorado, just send me a message to our home page and I can get you more useful infos!

tight lines Heiko & Carolina

Submitted by markyuhina on

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This is the best fly line dressing i ever used! Superb quality! super "slicky", bar none! I highly recommended!

Submitted by ryan Wagner on

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awesome article lots of good info. What river would you suggest to fish down in argentina for dorado's.

There was very little ever printed about Partridge's cane rods, only an A4 leaflet or 2. Other than Tom Moran, I very much doubt if many people remember much about them, I also doubt if Tom will be of much help to you, as the last I heard was that he was not in the best of health. These were made pre-Mustad's take over & dissapeared very soon afterwards., If you're on facebook, you could try contacting Ole Beurk (? spelling [Martin, GFF staff: His name is Ole Bjerke]) as he was the guy that ran it alongside the late Alan Bramley, he may still recall them. There are obviously cane rod forums as well you could try, but these were made in the mid 70's / early 80's & probably only for a few years at that.

Submitted by Wanda H. Taylor on

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The only thing that would make this photo better is if "I" was in it!
Great shot Jose!
Your fan,
W

Jakob,

More pictures...?! This article has almost 40 pictures already! We can hardly squeeze more in... The number of images found on any of our patterns surpasses what you find on most pattern articles on the web by an order of magnitude (well, almost...).

These images were all shot during a "live" tying of the fly, as is most of our step-by-step photos, and it can sometimes be difficult to control the background. But if you click on the images to see the larger versions you will see lots of details.

Doing an article such as this one is more than enough work as it is, and supplying shots on different backgrounds is unfortunately beyond our resources. We are after all doing this for fun and for free.

Martin

Submitted by Greg Null on

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I have fished with A fly &bubble for years.It is an exelent way to get closer to nature,because you learn to read the lake you are fishing on. When & where fish are rising,&what hatch they are feeding on,or where are the fish likly to be,like the delta of A feeder stream close to sundown,or shallow spots with submerged rocks,were the fish are jumping in the AM.When you fish with A fly & bubble you are always looking for rises(jumping fish),you are always tring to choose the best fly to match the hatch,to varry your retrive to seduce the fish.What A lovely obsession. Greg

Submitted by Jakob Kristensen on

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Hey

What about more pictures. The ones you have posted are great but it would great with more details. It would be great to see it on a lighter background also.

But great article and great great fly.

Best wishes

Jakob

Submitted by David Ward on

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I would be intrigued to find anything about the Partridge Golden Shadow fly rod as I have owned one for a number of years.
I e- mailed Partridge a few years ago but they could not give me any info. The only info they gave was the value of the rod.
I would be grateful if Keith Kitts could pass on any info he managed to dig up.

Submitted by Arne on

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All easy: It really hurts to spend lot's of money for tackle. But the good news (and that is why we are doing it): The only way to cure the pain is not to catch salmon in even more expensive water!

Submitted by chic springett on

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thanks for the patterns... will give them a try and let u know how i get on

Submitted by jireh on

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Wow! I'm so impressed, its nice to see people doing fishing using the special fishing rod, its really an exciting experience in life. People will really love this kind of pastime because its so exciting to do specially when you cached fish. Personally i love doing fishing and it is really fulfilling and enjoyable experience in my life.

Submitted by Glenn Roberts on

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Steve

Great looking fly. But I don't understand or see (doesn't show in picture) how liner tube is joined to junction tube with thread wrap over front of junction tube. Would it not be easier to melt the read end of the liner tube up against the rear of the bullet tube (and then add junction tube)...as you do to finish the fly off after the conehead?

Tight lines.

Glenn

Great book.

My sister, as a kid, used to be able to just put her hand into the Orvis trout pond and lift out a trout in her cupped hand.

The section on huxing is priceless.

Huxing is a technique of attaching a line to a goose or duck by wrapping it under under the left wing and over the left wing and then aroud the body like a belt. Then a baited hook was attached to the line at the foot or the wing. The waterfowl was then released. A pike would then take the bait and the water fowl would begin honking and trying to fly off and make it to shore.

I just used ordinary contact cement to attach the PVC fittings. Buying the actual primer and cement would have added another $5-6.00 dollars to the two tubes I built. I was able to get the contact cement at a local dollar store. It's been two years and no problems.

Submitted by Johan Bouwer on

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You can find the book secondhand on Amazon for about $50-00 if you are lucky. It is long out of print and highly sought after.

Marco,

Welcome to GFF!

It sounds like you have a good plane, and fishing at night is definitely the right plan this time of year. You will generally have to stick to pints and places with deeper water. The whole Lillebaelt area has a lot of places, which are suitable.

Make sure you take the wind into consideration, because you are fishing the ocean. and you don't want a head wind!

For Fyn you should check out the 117 Fine Fishing Spots, a booklet available in several languanges. It can be bought locally or ordered online.

This site http://www.seatrout.dk/ has a lot of info and links to these booklets, which you can buy here http://www.visitfyn.com/modules/eshop/?langcode=en

Hope this helps.

Martin

Submitted by Kasper Mühlbac… on

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Dabe,

you are right. The fly tied min the step-by-step sequence does not include EP fibres. The version tied upside down does, though.

You can use either material, but the fly gets a more transparent look using the rubber bands.

Kasper

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