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Chrys,

Thanks for your comment.

Even though it might work to shoot the birds with a pellet gun, I see a couple of problems with the method: some places it will most likely be illegal for non-hunters. Here in Denmark we need to have a hunter's license to be allowed to shoot any animal with a gun. I have no idea whether it's actually legal for hunters t shoot their own chickens, but I guess so.
Secondly you need to be a pretty good shot. I'm sure that I wouldn't have been able to hit one of my chickens in the head while it was running around in the garden - even with a scope mounted. Personally I wouldn't have been able to use that method.

And regarding the feathers... remember that fly-tyers need the feathers on the skin. And I also have a hard time seeing how 95% of the feathers could come off with the simple method you describe. I have plucked a few chickens in my time, and only few feathers came off as easily as you describe.

Martin

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I think the best best way to kill a chicken for dinner is,firstly let the chicken be free range in its penned garden with plenty of edge plants/shrubs and other chickens-no cock. Let each chicken live happy and fed as another person has mentioned here on left over sunday dinner and cooked left over veg.Costs you nothing as otherwise you chuck it in the refuse bin. Wasted good feed,feed it to your chickens,gravy a bonus. Give the birds a 2 year good life,then as they peck about around all morning,by midday after feeding them at 9am,they rest outside the coup. Pick out your dinner chicken,and shoot it clean in the head with a pellet rifle and scope from a window overlooking. Clean kill. Use a silencer so not to upset the other chickens,they will think its a natural death amongst them. Leave the dead bird 10-15 mins before getting it,the other chickens will investigate,as do all animals,including us to see who's dead, Take the dead chicken,and in the kitchen,with a sharp knife,lift the neck feathers usually brown soft and fluffy below each ear,top of the neck where the skull and the neck meet,and cut the artery either side. Then wait 2 minutes for all the brain electrical activity to cease. Grab the chicken head,and with your other hand,wrap your fore finger and thumb around its neck,and pull forcefully down its body a few times right down to its feet,and 95% of all the feathers come clean off in your hand undamaged. Plus, apart from gutting and washing it,you got got a clean bird and good undamaged feathers.

Submitted by ali:) on

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hello..i am interested in a few of your large pink squids...what is the price range...ali:)

Submitted by 1737246325 on

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Dear Grandpa,

You forgot to read this part of the article:

"The beauty of catching a trout or steelhead on a bead is the fact that the hook usually ends up in the fishes lip, and not buried deep in the fishes throat, where a removal could potentially harm the animal."

Wiggy,

My personal box for a spring trip in Denmark would contain something like:
- Grå Frede
- Magnus
- Danish Pastry Fly
- Klympen
- Bloody Butcher
- Red Tag
- Charlie Fly
- Omoe Brush
- Christmas Tree (clear, pink and orange)
- Brenda
- A few large zonkers

You would find those advocating:
- Pink Pig (Pattegrisen)
- Perfect Leo Shrimp
- Honey Shrimp
- The Real Borsteorm

Most of these are covered on this site. If you want them on paper, most are also in my book "Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout"

But I'm sure the Norwegian flies will work too. The issue is not choosing the pattern, but finding the fish. If they are there, they are pretty indiscriminate about fly choice in the spring. I would gladly fish with just a size 4 palmer hackled fly like Grå Frede, Magnus or Pastry Fly the whole spring.

Martin

Odd-Julian,

Even though we're a popular site and I'm almost sure that Popovics has been looking in at some point, I'd be very (positively) surprised if he answered your question here.

But maybe I can help you. If you want to catch trout with a Fleye Foil fly you can use any of the foils. I honestly think the trout cares very little about the shape of the foil. If you want to imitate a trout the Anchovy or the Silverside will probably do the best job.

Martin

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I would firmly agree with the comments by Henrik Mortensen because as a perfect example I used to watch perfect 'spey casts' carried out by what I would term the posers who were casting over water that did not hold fish. It made them quite sick of me when I crept up to the holding lies no more than 4 yards from the bank and catch fish with my home made heavy tube fly no more than an inch and a quarter long and with the first 'chuck. The method I always used was as Henrik states when he draws the fly upwards in front of the fish. I rarely bothered to fish any other way as this way does work.
Note what 'he' says when 'he's tried everything else'. I would question this with my philosophy why try other ways when one that works is successful ? However as Hugh Falkus famously and I might add truthfully and with experience said - 'the worst thing an angler can do is to be too successful'.

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I am tying fly for my own use and since Bob Popovics has ben tying this type of fly I should like to ask him which of the
" Silverside, Sand Eel or Bay Anchovy " can be used for trout fly.
I loock forward to this answerd, Thank's.

Best Regards Odd - Julian Martinsen ( NORWAY )

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