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I haven't seen the w

I haven't seen the weta fly before - sounds like an imitation of a large terrestrial insect we have here. A fly the same size as the real thing would be big (3 - 4 inches) and hard to cast in a wind. Big trout would eat them. Maybe ask at local angling clubs.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: please note NZ now has the highly invasive weed "didymo" in 23 South Island rivers. North Island so far is without it. One drop of water is all it takes to spread it. It is vital that any visitors clean and dry all tackle and boots before going from one river to another, or use different tackle for each watershed fished.

Fish & Game NZ website has details of how to clean gear, and horrific photos of what happens if you don't.

Tourist anglers should also clean their tackle rigorously before leaving NZ, to avoid risk of taking the weed back to their own countries. Tell your friends about this issue; if you want to help us keep the good fishing, the big message is "Check; clean and dry".

Slinkies are the ans

Slinkies are the answer to great lakes steelheading and are used on a running line,and are not cast like a reguler fly line.For those of you who doubt,,try it out.

Pike wire...

I was looking for good wire, when I tried ultra light spin fishing. In thi time I was very satisfied with wolfram wire made by I think Jaxon, its poland company. This I am using still, but another chance is Tyger wire, this I used in Costa Rica and its perfect!!!

www.tygerleader.com

And here is small crocodile picture, taken by czech guy on our dam. small is about 20 inches.

The Harvest website

The Harvest website is not working. Try to contact mrs Daisy from harvest tackle directlly at harvest.tackle@msa.hinet.net. She is very kind and agent for middle Europe is rudi-heger@t-online.de . I have Traveler 9' 5wt and it is amazing rod. Very light and very powerfull, and it became my favourite rod in 5wt( I have Winston BIIx and TNT Paradigm in same lenght) .
Regards form Serbia!

Bead Wet Flies

There are some very good variants of traditional wet flies using beads.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wp523f03f1_1b.jpg

This is a variant Peter Ross.
There are more
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page40.html

Blue Bead Buzzer

This is a Blue Bead Buzzer I tied (?) recently.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wp1b15859c_1b.jpg
The bead buzzers can be useful fished on the point with a team of buzzers on stillwaters.
A large Blue buzzer
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wp3d3ddb8c_1b.jpg

There are other bead buzzers on
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page55.html

Is there a photo for

Is there a photo for this pattern? I have a hard time visualizing the finished product from the material description.

All these cased cadd

All these cased caddis has the classic square cross section like a Grannom, but I didn't pluck any of the larvae out of their houses to check body colors. They were active buggers, too, as when I picked up a rock, they'd wriggle all about.

I really like this p

I really like this photo, new desktop for the computer.

Good shot! But it m

Good shot! But it makes me wonder about my own patterns now. The heads seem to be quite light in contrast to their darker bodies. Is this true or is it simply that the photo has distorted the true colors. Also their shape is definitely more torpedo-like than my ties.

Thnx. Doug

Something to strive for

Hi Martin, and all others interested in rodbuilding.

Check out the rods from J.D. Wagner:
http://www.wagnerrods.com/limited.html

The quality of the work layn down in these rods is simply astonishing and truly something to strive for in building rods. I particularly like the rods where the continued cane make up the handle, and the once with ebony inlay in front of the handle.

-Jari

hsimport

Hi Silja.

I know that hsimport.se carries at least the rods and blanks from harvest

-Jari

very flimsy

Silja,

The Internet service from Taiwan seems to be very flimsy. Sometimes the page works, sometimes it doesn't. Try again at a later time.

Martin

Good job. Any ideas

Good job. Any ideas how to make a right angle on a leader where indicator conected? (90* angle let fly sink more faster)

Not working

www.harvest-tackle.com.tw is not working, Is there some another way to find harvest articles ?

Re: Split cane blank/kit

That's about $200 in 'merican. Share your sources, please. 😉[/quote:dea49ac9cc]

I have been searching the web and my best bet for an inexpensive kit is British Norman-Agutters. They have blanks from 65£ and kits with cork, rings, ferrules and everything from about 110£. That seems like a price range where I can afford to experiment with cane rod building.

Martin

Re: Split cane blank/kit

That's about $200 in 'merican. Share your sources, please. 😉

I want to tie or buy

I want to tie or buy the Weta fly i am fishing the Mohaka river in mid febaury2007
North Island can you help me please.

I fish the area in P

I fish the area in Peoples Forest, and in Canton.

Hi Martin,

Hi Martin,
I've never seen a cane rod build from a kit, but there is a guy here in Bremen, (Rolf Baginski), who has offered weekend courses in the past, to build a cane rod from spliting the bambo, to putting epoxy on the wraps. A friend took part in the course last year, and although he had no experience in rod building, build a very nice, useable rod over the weekend.
Here is his homepage if you are interested: http://www.baginski-fly-rods.com/index.html

Take care
Paul

The hats a good idea

The hats a good idea and I would buy one if it had a shorter bill. Alan.

In my youth, I've ti

In my youth, I've tied and fished many of these "streamers" as wet flies. Love the addition of these patterns with photographs to the fly fishing body of knowledge. You should be proud of you accomplishment!

Yah dude, the Farmin

Yah dude, the Farmington rules. It's where I learned to fish.

one of the reasons t

one of the reasons to use this is to change the angle of presentation, in chuck and duck the fly bounces off the bottom at a 45 degree angle. Can't do that with a sink tip, beads or lead eyes. I use a method similar but instead of making a slinkie I tie the shot to a tag end of 3-4 " on the swivel.