Hi Hoppy,
The pattern is fine. I am sure you'll get a result but maybe shorten it slightly?
Also, a double hook? Please...No need. Avoid using them.
You won't lose any more fish if you use a single hook and by using doubles you may and will harm under size sea trout.
Nice pattern though.
RD
Ruan,
sometimes the pike is difficult and only pull the wing - a behavior we are not used to. Try smaller flies.
Kasper
Excellent imitation! I'll be tying up a few to use around the marshes of north Florida and south Georgia. By the way, fantastic website, I've gotten better information from here than anywhere else!
Matej ,
In the Uk we would call this a lesser Weaver fish, it is very dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous creature in the Uk.
This is a small fish (about 15 cm long). It has venomous spines along its dorsal fin.
It is quite commonly found around the British Isles in warm weather. It may hide under the sand at low tide.
The weaver fish sting can be extremely painful. Death is extremely rare, although respiratory failure and gangrene have been reported following infection.
The affected limb or wound should be immersed in water as hot as can be tolerated comfortably for 15 minutes – some cafes in Cornwall and other surfing areas keep a bucket for this purpose.
If this isn’t possible, cover the wound with hot flannels which should be changed repeatedly. The venom is inactivated by heat and the intense pain should subside within a few minutes of treatment.
Simple painkillers such as paracetamol will also help to relieve the pain, antihistamines may also be helpful
Hope this helps!
Hoppy :!:
I have tied a fly very similar to the Sara, usinf a #1 short shank hook, the fly is about 15 cm in length, the Pike absolutely love this fly but I have a major problem, I miss about 80% of strikes due to the fish takind the rear end of the fly and never getting close to the hook. Does any one have suggestions ? maybe a second hook towards the end ?
Larry - the Whiting products are available from most online fly fishing retailers. Try Mike Hogue at www.eflytyer.com. If he does not have it in stock - I'm sure he can get it for you.
Hi Hoppy,
I stayed in Denmark for two weeks in june this year and one of the places i fished was middlefart.
You will need to wade out quite a way to find the deeper water,.......and the fish.
I fished at night with a black muddler with arctic fox tail and managed two small cod.
But i liked Denmark so much that i've already booked for two weeks next year,I agree about the book 117 .........you must get it.
hi guys, should you do some fishing on Sealand over the weekends, I´d love to join you as long as it is not a "private ride" 😄
Hey Martin, so I am scheduled to arrive in a week from now, and I have been watching the daily temperature of Copenhagen very closely. ;) It is rather warm! 😄
Vancouver on the other hand, has been going through what most of you saw in the movie "The Day after Tomorrow".
Since my last post, we were greeted by multiple days of heavy rainfall after five months of drought. In Chilliwack, where many of you have fished, they received over 100mm of rain in 24 hours! The watershed was completely flooded and many houses were damaged. As a result, this has further created another barrier for our returning salmon, which have not been many this season.
Chum salmon are typically shallow spawners so the flood pushed most chums onto trails and roads. We performed a chum rescue mission... ;)
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album87/061107_06.jpg
Over 100 chums were netted and returned to the main channel.
This weekend, we are experiencing the earliest winter snow storm since 1975. 🙄 Since last night, 30cm of snow has fallen.
As you can see, I have not fished since late October! :o Time to get some perch and pike. ;)
I'll send you an email when I arrive in DK.
Cheers all.
Greased Liner,
Nice Fly. I'd shure love to go for stripers with a floating fly some day! Must be really exciting!
Martin
Thanks for great link Jari, i just research prices of harvest product's and i think harvest rod have best quality for that price, i buying TRAVELER 4pc's 9" class#5 in next couple day. Thank's Martin, for your great comparing that i found on your page.
I wish all of you many great day on river with fly tackle in hand
Ilija from Banja Luka, BiH
I sell these and I can ship to Denmark or just about any other place that has mail. www.eflytyer.com. Mike
Just came back from a steelhead trip to Northern NY state. With the rivers running high and fast, slinkies got the fly down quickly and made for better drifts.
This is just what I am looking for. I have the book on Atlantic Streamers but have not been able to find the right feathers, the hen saddles. The ironic part is that I live less than 40 miles from the Whiting Farms and visited once on a TU trip. Any suggestion on where I can buy these saddles?
i have many articles about bamboo fly rod tapers--garrison, payne--but i just heard of another but i am not familiar with itis called the "anulet" taper--can you tell me about this--thanks george
hi
nice dvd, but sad, that i cut´n get this dvd i Denmark or sendt to Denmark :o(
Hi Matej!
A dangerous question! Questions of that sort usually turn out pretty long threads, but then again this site is not so much a casting site as it is a fishing site.
Most Sage rods I have tried are rather unforgiving, but that is part of the point I think. I guess you're right that they are good casting rods and for some that is the same thing as a good fishing rod.
Others just like to fish and want a rod that casts easily and sufficiently far and I think that Martin thinks of himself in this category.
I havent tried the new z-axis, but it probably follows the sage stile, so if you're on the lookout for an undemading rod, its probably not for you.
I like demaning rods, its a nice sence of success when you learn to control a demanding rod and because they are demanding, it usually means that you're in for a treat, when you learn to master its potential.
But on the other hand, those things haven't got much to do with fishing and as always, these things are very individual
-Jari
Martin, a fly fishing party ..... you never wrote, you never called, you didn't send flowers, or a card... ;- )
Matej,
You are sooo right! I haven't tried the new Sage rods, but on a general level I find this fast action rod craze way too much.
Many new rods may be good for casting far, but for casting nicely, presenting delicately and fighting...? It's not my cuppa!
Whenever someone hauls out one of these wiz rods, I just remind them that my good old Partridge splitcane rod - 7' for a 4-weight line - can lay out close to a whole WF line as delicately as a butterfly lands (well almost at least). I find that most of the rods I like to fish are medium fast, progressive, on the heavy side - and a blessing to fish with!
Fast isn't always better!
Martin
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