Hi,
I had and old Danish book once, by a guy called Poul Friss. It had a lot of spider patterns as Dry flies in it, all tied with a hackle twice as long as the shank and no tail?
The picture of "your" half stone is with a short hackle, is that particular to that pattern, or was it the style of all spider dries??
Chers
Morten, as you have no doubt noticed, I am rather keen on them myself.
One small point, The West Country Wets are, strictly speaking, South Country Wets.
They are not very well known outside the West Country, that is the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset etc. There is rather a limited literature about them.
Although quite a few of the 20th c. patterns are used as dry flies in many parts of the UK.
The Half Stone and its variations is probably the best known. In the mid 20th c. upright winged dry flies became less popular and 'spider' cock hackles were more used in the UK and so quite a few of the West Country Wets were used as dries.
For anyone else who is interested, here is a picture of a Half Stone, which I tied on a modern size 14 dry fly hook.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpba5759dc_1b.jpg
p.s I liked your sea trout fly, it has affinities with W. H. Lawries 'All-fur Flies', a book I can highly recommend.
I agree with Martin.
Please keep the transport down to a minimum as we are driving and using the facilities at the Wedellsborg Royal Estate.
There is an abundance of deer and other wild animals so driving is to be kept to an absolute minimum. No exceptions, and no empty seats in any cars.
The estate is owned by the Count Bendt Wedell and is supervised by the game-keeper and forest rangers who are aware of our invasion.
We will drive through as a group and leave as a group.
1 place in my car is booked and that leaves 3 seats.
I live on Fyn (Wedellsborg), so shuttling is: to-and-from the hostel in Odense.
First come first serve.
Ripley
My danish fly stroke again yesterday,( in f..... stormy weather), ca 500 m from where my local river runs into the sea. Not really sure if this fish is spawner, or if it was just sneaking around the river opening. Anyway I relased it, and hope that this fish now have the knowlege to avoid attacks from the many spin fishermen upstream.
Chers
Morten.
NB. Not really Fishporn what I am presenting here, but I was quite stressed by operating the catch and my my NIkon D70 at the same time ;)
I have fished alantic salmon for 35 years & use 1/2 hitch all the time,from my experince I tie the 1/2 hitch behind the head & under the throut & add another 1/2 hitch behind the first because playing big fish the first hitch has on rare occassion pop off with a lost off a trophy fish.
I dont think so, It takes me ca 30 min to do one leader, and it last for years of fishing.
For the last one I made, I used normal sandpaper to shape the taper, then finer sandpaper until about 125 grain size(maybe adding some water), until the surface felt nice and smoth.
The turning point has allways been the blood knot adding the tippet to the leader, but with a little practice, and not to many turns, you can get a strong knot, normally I add 0.30 and down dependent on the task.
NB. Sorry Martin, I have coincidentally posted my first answer as a new tread, can be deleted
I have two set of Atlantic Salmon flies.. Both are autograph. One is by Ted Williams the baseball guy and one by Lee Wolff. Are they worth anything?
Morten,
If I understand this right this leader is sanded down to its proper taper, isn't it? I remember Milton mentioning these, but never really took that much notice... Isn't it a lot of work?
I had (still have) a friend who fished a lot in the Justland streams for sea trout, and I also remember him preparing these leaders. He later moved to Australia, and I haven't seen or heard them mentioned since.
Martin
Fine tying skills (young eyes ;)), When i was 14 I allways carried tree boxes full of flies around, one with nymphs, one with dries, one with traditionall wets, streamers, hairwings, montanas, etc.
Today I hardly carries tree different fly patterns with me ;)
Chers
Morten.
Love those north country spiders, they even fish great in slow motion danish streams. Give me some north country spiders, and I will never starve ;).
In my opinion the north country spiders never got the popularity world wide they deserved.
Chers
Morten.
Laying a beautiful fish such as that on the dry ground? Very bad form, man, very bad.
Many put down Fenwick but I havenever had any problems with them.
Could you elaborate a bit on this? I have heard the same thing once a while ago, but never really got deeper into it.
@Jonathan:
You have probably made your purchase(s). Here's a my quick input, however. First a bit on the leader issue.
For a couple of years now I have used fluorocarbon leaders, which have an ability to sink as the leader is a bit heavier than the water itself. However, it is as easy to cast with as a regular leader. In this way you get the best from the regular leaders and poly leaders. I have been using these: http://www.riverge.de/ but I know that for instance Loop also make them.
Poly leaders fish excellent, but are too heavy to cast with in my opinion.
By the way. I also use a Loop CWL (the black one). It's working flawlessly - and has been for more than two years now. The handle has corroded, however - even though I have put it in water after most trips.
Nice rodhandle, what's it made off? Woo,d and if so what kind?
Nice photo Ripley, seems that we have the same ambition, Although i prefer less plastic and more natural things. Hope we can exchange some ideas during the GFF meeting in 2 weeks, maybe you can give some hints as where to fish after the meeting, cheers
Brian
Hi, I'm driving from Dianalund (vestern part of sealand) friday morning in order to do some fishing on the way to Odense. I have place for one more, so send me a mail or write in here if you want the seat 8)
Regards Jesper
Hello from Germany,
i use this Nymph here in some streams in the Black Forrest, and it rocks the Brown Trouts are realy wild for this nymph!
TL Daniel
Hi fellow summit attendants,
I am in need of a lift from Copenhagen to Odense in order to make it for the now annual GFF summit. I would prefer morning or noon departure, in order to be able to do a bit of fishing on Friday, but I am open for other options, as long as the destination is Kragsbjergvej 121 Odense M on Friday the 21st of September.
If you are in possession of an empty seat and in need of someone to work the maps, please feel free to let me know.
Looking forward to see you all at the summit,
/atli
Hi Horstmann,
round new year you'll normally not have problems with the watertempratures. The average temprature is round 5/6°C. To that time you can fish the whole island depending on the wind. Good places are all round Mjells Mark. Als Fjord and Augustenborg Fjord can also be good.
Recommendable flies are all Shrimppatterns, Gra Frede and Magnus. A Polar-Magnus is a good fly at this time of the year. Also white Shrimpflies can work good.
If you are working the east coste to that time, you must notice the protective zones. Especially the places between Torup and Fynshav have lots of protective zones.
You have right, i copied the wrong name in it...SORRY
Thank for your correction!!
regards,
Nico
I think that Roach is Rutilus rutilus and Scardinius erythrophthalmus is Rudd.
See in wikipedia ;)
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