Excellent article and very accurate. I flew from British Columbia, Canada to the Czech Republic this past spring to further study this highly-effective technique.
Todd Oishi
Team Canada Member
www.bcflyfishingadventures.com
Orvis knot is the king. I'll never tie a clinch for fishing again. Look for the Ligature Knot for line-to-line connections, its just as good of an improvement over blood knots, and much easier to tie.
This is so on time. All I had to do was go surfing. Now I can get on with the task. Thank you Mr. Joergenson.
In this months The American Carper there is an article on Carp flies. That organization is a mostly big hardware type for Carp fishing but they have been softening to the fly enthusiasts among them. I don't know if it is possible to bring in a fifty pound Carp on a fly rod. It isn't like a fifty pound Striped Bass. It is like a 300 pound Striped Bass.
That's not a pike, it's a Russian Typhoon Class Submarine!
Ripley
Dear Dada, you can look in Google-Earth
Summer Time and all saisons works very well ! But take all your FlyFishing equipment with you, its too expensive there :)
Latitude: 40° 1'9.14"N
Longtitude: 31° 38'35.87"E
Off course there is SAFE ! You are not in Iraq 😄 There is no different between where you live now and Turkey :)
Greetz
awesome pic, should be in the wallpaper section!!!!
Everything under 1/60 is slow, when you have passed the 47 years, and the hands are shaking ;-)
Keld
Guys,
Just to interfere with all the talk, I thought I'd comment on the shutter speed, ISO, aperture thing.
A shutter speed of 1/50th of a second is fairly slow. Most standard cameras manage up to about 1/500th or 1/1000th, which would be considered a fast shutter speed. An 80 or 100 ISO image would have to be exposed at about that speed at f5 on a sunny day. An overcast day like on the image above offers a lot less light and shutter speeds down to about 1/100th or 1/50th of a second could be expected.
Martin
Beautiful marble trout. Could have wished for more "fish" in the photo.
Otherwise an uncommon shot with good detailings. Also a nice way to release a fish without using direct human contact! You get 4, dude!
This streamer definitely looks more fishy than your last input (on the same background).
I'd like to see the fly with a smaller head, however, I like the transparancy of it.
Most salmon fly tyers (and ditto fishermen) are unaware that one of the most productive design features is to keep the wing low. You made a perfect low wing on this fly.
You get 4 for the photo, dude!
Hello dear Feridun,
Iam very interesting in trouts and pike or perch, zander whatever. But mostly trouts, do u mean that Ill find them there. iam gonna check the position of locality you wrote on google and Ill see...What you mean about the best time of season, when Ill go there? We are planning during summer but iam little bit afraid about watter. what you mean?And another question what about safeties there?Thanks D.
Oh yeah, you had to get that picture in you show off.......just wait, I'll reply to that one.....
Hi Ryan,
I have used the Teal, Blue and Silver many times in the salt and the sea trout love it. No quibbles there...
There's no reason why a magnus with a blue collar wouldn't work?
I will knock one off tonight and give it a whirl in the local salt.
Regards
Ripley
Hi
We have a local flyfisher, Sean Mills, here in Cape Town, who seems to catch carp at will. Almost like walking into a candy store and taking candy from the shelves.
He has developed a couple of flies (carp bugger is one) and techniques to catch them.
He rates them extremely spooky, far more than trout.
We've had some good results with Czech nymphing flies and techniques as well.
Will contact him and see if he can't share his secrets here on Global Flyfisher.
Korrie
Hi Keld i agree with you, But isent 1/53 a rather quick shutter speed?
Regards Allan.
Ps. anyway its a great picture
Ask yourself dude, when was the last time you saw beautiful human feet? No, they simply don't exist, right? Well, here's proof that salmonid (fins) are more beautiful than human (feet).
Definitely 6. Notice the very gentle touch to the water, that just makes it, dude!
i just started learning how to fly fish this year, and i have been looking very hard for instructions for new flies that i could use, so i think it would add to this very interesting artical if there were a set of simple instructions attached.
thank you very much.
I got to know Dec a little while fishing on the Skagit/Sauk rivers in the 90's. I found him to be just as passionate about steelhead as suggested by the book's title. He was also enthusiastic and quite helpful even to non-customers. I found his book inspiring and also full of more techinical information about fly fishing for steelhead than any steelhead fly fishing book I recall reading. Way to go Dec!
Allan. If i do understand it right, the slow shutter speed, compensates for ISO 80 and lets more light pass through. and the f 5 helps too.
Its always a struggle to keep the depth sharpness, where you have to use a rather high f number, and at the same time get light enough.
Haven't read it. Did read a series of Loon Lake mysteries that has fly fishing in it, although not enough to learn anything. Interesting characters though.
I just read your website and this bench looks great!! I'm not very good with wood as I have never tried to do something like this before. Perhaps I'll check a few more websites but I especially like yours. Now all I need is the proper tooks and the proper materials to do this job. Thanks again for a great website, Steve Zimmett
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