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Great article. I ma

Great article. I make poppers and streamers using foam popper heads. (just turn the popper around and it's a streamer.) My eyes are done the same way only smaller. I use the sharpened sticks like in the article. My iris is in gold and the pupil in black. (I've looked at a lot of fish and noticed the iris is gold on most.) The one thing I have found that works great is 30 min. epoxy to cover the heads. You can do a lot of streamers using the 30 min. epoxy. It makes a nice gloss finish that is real hard and holds up when you hit rocks or sticks.
Im going to make some of the streamers with the big eyes and test them out for bass and trout.
Thanks for a great article.

Dada,

Dada,

This is what my set up looks like, the popper is 2/0 and the leech is tied in size 1 , - smaller than when I use a leech only, but as you can imagine, this set up is quite difficult to cast. Also due to their moths being bone hard I use stainlessteel hooks only.

Hi Alan, No fishing

Hi Alan, No fishing for me in these parts this time of year. All these streams are closed to fishing. Even if they weren't, not too far around the bend from that pic, the ice is from shore to shore. There is some year around water on the Beaverkill and some of the other bigger waters, but I'd just as soon stay inside and tie flies than freeze my butt off chasing a couple half frozen trout. If I fish in the winter, it's up north for steelhead (something I don't do much anymore, unfortunately).

Thank you Joao Nicac

Thank you Joao Nicacio
I am happy that these assemblies have worked to the other side of the Atlantic and in rivers with tropical species.
Greetings

Cándido Pérez

Bob, just my size of

Bob, just my size of stream. Can you fish at this time of year, the solitude is beautiful. Thanks, Alan.

Hi Derek,

Thanks

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your compliment regarding my work. Yours is gorgeous too, only 'a wee' bit larger than mine... I think. Well done and keep up the good work.

Ad Swier

Hi Bob
I will be in

Hi Bob
I will be in the Catskills, 1st week in June. What is the regulations for fishing licences, etc

Mark,

It's availa

Mark,

It's available from a lot of places. A quick search on Google will show you several outlets, like The Riffle Hitch.

Scierra's own page can be found here with a distributor's list.

Martin

Hi Dada,

Hi Dada,
Sure, I will take some picktures of my set up tonight, and hope to have them on the site tomorrow, will you be fishing rivers or still waters ?

Please, someone can

Please, someone can give me an internet address of where I can buy "Cracking the Code" DVD.
Thanks

Fantastic job

Thanks for this fantastic job . Were can i buy entire wet collection ? Please answer me quicly. Thanks

just come back from

just come back from lithauania and visited northern central and southern regions, did not have time to fish but was wondering about the stocks of fish i saw in the heavily frozen rivers that traversed the flet expansive and wooded landscape. one amazing carp dish i ate was seved in a fish stock jelly with carots and oniond the carp still remaining portioned on the bone isvicata a wonderful dish. another was pike baked with a whit caper sauce and boiled taties, im sure we ate these foods in times gone. good page

Hi Frederick. We got

Hi Frederick. We got quite a bit of snow last week, and a fresh topping on Monday when I snapped that pic. It was one of those perfect days for snow pictures - a sticky fluffy snow and no wind to speak of. That creek is about a mile and a half from my house, so I took a walk at lunch on Monday and snapped a few pics along the way. This one is my favorite.

Great fly Martin can

Great fly Martin cant wait to try one. Took me a bit to figure out the tube part but I ended up using a q-tip and a wire casing from an old mouse that stretched to fit snuggly over the q-tip and hook eye. Very cheap to make and you save your hook. Fastest fly I ever made no vise needed or tying thread.

Hello again..

Martin" I saw this article a few months ago, ït was first impulse to think about that, but I think, that channel catfish is different type of food, wels is big to much and what I know this fish has mostly interest in fish and sometimes leeches. And major problem where is wels, there is no crayfish. We ve crayfish just in a few rivers.

to Waterdog: Ill test it!!! When we had a discussion about that we spoke about vibrations and big black flies. They are on surface just few weeks of summers nights and I hope that Ill be there.....Iam expecting 5 up to 10kg, but I saw a lot of fish caught on bait fish over then 25 and some of them were over 50. But Ill be setisfated with "small" babies.....:)
Could you send me a picture of your flies, please?
Thanks a lot, Dada

Hi Bob; It looks lik

Hi Bob; It looks like you are really good with the camera? where is that lovley stream? I dont think the catskills got much snow, or the poconos either, Might be a bad late spring !!FRED

Neat stuff Bob

Neat stuff Bob; I love to fish with the wet fly. I am 72 & fished the same water as Ray B. & Dr. burke, Both of which were from New Jersey , as I am too. The water they fished , is on the south branch of the Raritan , near a town called Long valley, DR. Burke lived in a town called Bound Brook N.J. I really like your style of tying. Great photos FRED

Infraredfilter?

Infraredfilter?

Glad you like the fly

Mike,

Glad you like the fly and had luck with it. It's been a while since I fished it last, but your comment may just get me cranking out a few for this upcoming season's fishing... And yes, Steve's Universal Nymph is a killer fly!

Martin

Used a varation of this fly

Used a varation of this fly on a local bass lake and was rewarded with a nice 2 # large mouth use tan and shrimp u-v ice dub for the body and got a very flashy fly that i thinks hold geat promise for many warm and cold water species cant wait to try it on trout and stripers.I live in Atlanta Ga. by the way and we have acess to tailwater trout and many warm water species.Thanks for this site I also got my top producing trout nymph (unirversal nymph) from you guys. thanks again.

Chris,

maybe you

Chris,

maybe you should look at the tactics and flies used on Lake Taupo, New Zealand.

Kasper

Hi, My name is Ron

Hi,
My name is Ron Beck and I live in Florida in the U.S.A. Fishing has been my passion for 60 years. I try to find some kind of fishing antwhere my wife and I travel. I will be staying in Hotel Unterwirt, Ebbs, Tirol, Austria from July 4 through July 7. I can fly fish, but my true love is spin fishing. Are there any ponds or lakes in that area of Tirol where I can spend 3 or 4 hours catch and release fishing? Any info will be sooooo apreciated.

Hi Martin,

I have

Hi Martin,

I have been enjoying listening to your podcasts. I live on Lake Michigan in the US and am wondering if the style of fishing you do for sea trout would work on the coast of the Lake here for the lake run browns. I have been searching high and low for information about fly fishing the coast on the Great Lakes and am coming up with nothing.

Best regards,
Chris.

Hi Martin,

I also

Hi Martin,

I also heard your request for feedback on your Winter Fishing episode and figured that it was time that I thanked the guy who is providing such enjoyable podcasts for me and others to listen to. Each new episode comes to me through I-Tunes and I listen on my I-Pod. I look forward to each new program and listen to them as soon as they arrive.

I've been investigating podcasting myself over the past few months, reading about it and listening to plenty of internet samples. I think I enjoy yours most because you actually take your listeners fishing. What a wonderful way to capture memories! I purchased a new Eridol R-09 MP3 recorder a couple of weeks ago. I've had it out to record one fishing trip, recording on the stereo speakers built into the machine. I now know I need to add a mono microphone that can be clipped to my clothing as carrying the recorder on my person using the built in mics makes too much noise.

I look forward to future podcasts. Perhaps in time I'll be able to put something up that others can enjoy as well. Thanks for all you efforts. It is amazing that we can share in this way even though we're far apart geographically.

Tight lines.

Dave
Sweet Home, Oregon, USA