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Interesting choice o

Interesting choice of colors.

Comment to Gary Fraser Streamer Collection 2014

Great looking group of streamer patterns Gary...I like the whiteback very much!

Dave

Can you tell me what

Can you tell me what is GO2 150D Veevus thread compare to the 0/0 system? Is it equal to 6/0 , 8/0 etc.?
what is 100D and 30 D equal to the threads like Danville or Uni-thread? With these 3 deniers what type would you use to tye dry flies, nymphs etc.. Thank you.

Pete,

Pete,

Pretty (small) flies...
I'd fish those any day for our local sea runs.
Good job.

Martin

Grant, You can re

Grant,

You can read this article for some information on UV Resins. They basically come with each their type of lamp, but are mostly interchangeable.

Martin

What type of uv ligh

What type of uv light is used on super glue and other types of uv glue. I would use it on the copper John.

Martin has a very go

Martin has a very good point, you wouldn't want to use this setup for fishing dry flies on a calm day. A couple of things that I do to help turn over the SH is, first I will leave a couple meter of amnesia lay in the water, before I start putting the rest in my stripping basket, this adds resistance at the end of the cast, or hold the line and just slow it down, or my favorite is to strip out just enough running line so that the SH shoots to the end, with a small `clunk´, love the feel of it.

One of the problems I had at the beginning was that the cast would run out of momentum, and just sort of fall at the end of the cast, so I played around with it a while, before I found what works for me.

Comment to PJ Whiteback Smelt by Gary Fraser

Thanks for the unreal bump on my pattern. you tie a mean mean fly my friend

Thanks, this made me

Thanks, this made me smile today. I've been going there for about 23 years, and each time there feels like the first. One doesn't need to be fishing to be gobsmacked by the beauty of The Valley.
This my "Happy Place" & I like the peace, quiet and solitude there. Thanks for sharing.

Everybody,

I thin

Everybody,

I think we're splitting hairs here. Monofilament shooting line - be it 20, 25, 30 or whatever lbs is essentially the same weight, definitely the same friction and maybe has just a fraction of a fraction difference in resistance due to different stiffness.

Compared to a braided or a coated shooting line there will be an immense difference in the way any mono turns over the head and the fly in comparison, but comparing the different mono lines the difference between them has to be marginal.

I'm not saying that you can't feel a difference, but I don't think the concern about the turnover or lack of same should make you choose one over the other. If you want a difference in turnover, choose a very different shooting line - and then it's not Henning's setup anymore.

PS: To be fair I have to admit that I never fish the mono shooting lines. I personally loathe them for exactly their almost complete lack of any kind of resistance and their inability to aide the turnover of the shooting head, leader and in the end the fly. I have tried Henning's setup many times, but while the casts may be long, the presentation is not good when I use it. I also dislike handling the slippery and thin line with wet and/or cold hands.

Martin

Paul,

I disagree,

Paul,

I disagree, the running line has a lot to do with the presentation of the shooting head. Thinner rl's for lighter sh's, thicker for heavier that rules. What that means exactly depends on the capability and taste of the caster. E.g. the cast and presentation of a 18-20g shooting head with a 25lb. rl is generally spoken more difficult to control than with a 36lb. rl.. You need for the first set up a better tracking and a better power control among other things to bring a straight leader smooth on the surface. But I have only experience with mono rl's.

Cheers

Jan

Hi Simon,
You fly f

Hi Simon,
You fly fish, that is your life:-) and to answer your question, No. The running line has nothing to do with the turn over of the shooting head. Its a matter of what's comfortable for you, thinner line runs through the guides better, thicker are easier to hold on to when double hauling or setting the hook, especially when it's cold and your fingers are frozen. It's a personal choice, for me 25 lbs is a happy middle.
Paul

Hello
Great website

Hello
Great website. Love your flies. Can't wait to try tying some. May I ask where do you purchase the twisted gut for tying; and what size is it?
Thank you in advance.....Jerry Bode

Nice Fly, why is it

Nice Fly, why is it called the Mormon Girl? Fished on the Green or the Provo?

Hi

Great article.

Hi

Great article....one question, is there any relationship between the diameter of the amnesia running line and the shooting head to ensure proper turnover. i.e. 25lb for a #7 rod/ 9wt shooting head....so does that mean 30lb amnesia for #8 rod/10wt shooting head....or should I just get a life !!

All the best

Comment to Gary Fraser Streamer Collection 2014

Lovely work there Gary! :-)

rob I like the way

rob I like the way you do the sow bug fly video very good.

Would there be a fly

Would there be a fly shop in Karuna?

Sorry about the triple copies

Sorry about the triple copies of comments, but we certainly only send out one per notification! I have a fairly detailed log of all mails sent by the system, and actually there hasn't been sent a single one to the mail-address you have used for this comment.

I subscribe to several comment threads myself and only get one per update, so something must happen underway from us to you.

Martin

Iceland is a blast -

Iceland is a blast - fantastic landscapes and world class trout fishing.
It doesn't need to be that expensive either.
I joined a trip with this guide based in Switzerland last year.
Very decently priced and just awesome.... !!!!
Feel free to check him out:
upstreamflyfishing in Switzerland
Pat

I get three emails with the same comment

When I originally commented I clicked the "Notify me when new comments are added" checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get three emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Cheers!

A great read, and ye

A great read, and yes it does focus on PA watersheds mostly, but the insects represented in this work hatch all over the east coast as well as west and south, so applying the knowledge gained to my home waters here in the great state of Maine was simple enough. All in all a very helpful book for me and the patterns were somewhat simple to tie as I have tied most of them and fished them also. Buy it if you want to learn some old new patterns and techniques this is a good place to start.

Way to go I feel the

Way to go I feel the same way, I would never ditch my poles for anything its my passion. I also read that peta article because I am doing a research project for school about whether sport fishing is cruel. When I read the article they wrote I laughed because its so full of crap. I know true anglers would never rip out a fishes guts, thats why you cut the line!

Great photo!

Great photo!