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Hi Frank

Hi Frank
:evil:
Since the idea of fishing with a drain-cover is as absurd to me as I know it is to You, i would be grateful if you would refrain from that kind of smart-ass comments. They are no help to me and needing help is the reason I posted this question in the first place.

I want to fish a fly, on a fly line or similar, at 50 meters of depth in the sea. That is, as I see it, a bigger challenge to achieve than casting a fly line, something that I frequently do when fishing for other species of fish. Basing the fishing technique on casting the line is contraproductive, since the 40 top meters of the water doesn't hold fish.

Consequently, I fish the fly up some 10-20 meters from the 50-meter level and let it sink again. As I am catching the fish with fly fishing gear - fly rod, line, leader and fly - this way of fishing the fly should be considered just a flyfishing technique as any technique based on casting the line. The innovativeness in finding a way to even reach the fish with this type of gear sould even account for more.

Furthermore, I catch these saithe up to 10-12 kg's on relatively light fly rods, line class 7 or eight, something that makes the challenge even greater.

So please, don't recommend any drain-pipes or post any similar comments that are stemming from a one-track purist mind way of thinking, but help me instead to find the lines I need, if possible.

/Bosse

Do we still talk about fly

Do we still talk about fly casting or just fly fishing?In case of the first, take a guideline shooting head in sinkrate 7/8 and the highest line class. In case of the second, just take a drain cover.

Regards, Frank

Hi Ulrik,

Hi Ulrik,

I can give you just the advice to get in contact with these guys:

http://www.globetrotter.de/de/shop/rubrik.php
http://www.seekajak.dk/

Kind regards,

Frank

>Sometimes the answer is just

>Sometimes the answer is just under your nose!<

True.

I'll post a pic of the "Murmansk Munroe Brook Trout Conversion Fly" when time allows. Copper tinsel, orange dyed squirrel tail, red bucktail and yellow hackle. A Brook Trout magnet, if ever there was one...

Craig

Craig,

Craig,

I also Googled the fly, but found nothing. But I didn't give Chris' books one thought. I have the latest volume 'Directory of Salmon Flies" on my table right next to the computer since I'm writing up a review of it, and one look in the index and I found it... The Murmansk Killer, a Munroe derivative. Duh!

Sometimes the answer is just under your nose!

Martin

Dear Tobias

M

Dear Tobias

My name is Cándido Pérez, also collaborator in GFF Pix with pictures.

Next summer I will travel to Austria, San Michael in Lungau, and he/she would want informs me if it is possible that type of flies advises me like I imagine, good expert of the fishing area and rivers of the Tyrol. I was already 7 years ago in this same place and you me dió very well, but it is always good to obtain information on the part of some fisherman of these rivers.

Thanking your attention and sending you a cordial greeting.

Attn. Cándido Pérez
candyfish@terra.es

Martin,

Martin,

Here goes...

I came across the "Murmansk Munroe" while thumbing a copy of Trout & Salmon by R. Valentine Atkinson (page 166). Its color, shape and materials make it a nearly perfect candidate for conversion to a Brook Trout streamer. And not much of a conversion - just a simple swap of the Salmon iron for a streamer hook.

Did some 'Googling'. Asked some questions. As far as I can tell, the Murmansk Munroe is a cousin of the Murmansk Killer which is itself a cousin of the Munroe Killer. (?)

Pics below for the Murmansk Killer, copied from the Mann book, and the 'highly convertable' Murmansk Munroe, copied from the Atkinson book.

With another 12 inches of snow to the ground in Maine today, there will be plenty of time to sort this one out...

Regards,

Craig White

You are a true artis

You are a true artist Anders. Thanks for sharing the proces.

Mindaugas,

Differ

Mindaugas,

Different from the river Chavanga which you fished, mine (Varzuga) was suddenly closed as from 1st of October... And i didnt want to swing around with my big rod and disturb your fishing :) so I decided not to go

Thanks .. from Spain

Thanks .. from Spain

Just the most awesom

Just the most awesome work ever! My son is 12 and we fly fish at least 1 day every week all year long. We were blown away and immediately ordered some Simm's T-shirts. Where can we get some prints for our new fly-tying room? Thanks, Kevin and Grayson Hirst Lancaster, PA

Your are welcome!

RR;

Your are welcome!

Yes, there are floating tubes, and some people even tie dry flies on tubes. I have personally never seen or owned a floating tube, but have seen the dries mentioned a few places.

Small flies tied on the most lightweight plastic tubes will probably also float if dressed with floating materials or treated with a floatant.

Martin

Thank you

Thank you for the comprehensive coverage of tube material. Are there floating tubes? RR

Thank you Lindsey fo

Thank you Lindsey for a fine, complete article about a series of flies well deserving of your efforts. By the way, additional information on this series is also found in Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing by Joseph D. Bates. RR

Squaretail,

Squaretail,

And you leave us baffled? No link, no indication to what you found, no nothing...?

Martin

A ragworm swimming

Robert,

The fly is supposed to look like a ragworm swimming, so the stripping pattern is of course like a ragwork swimming - fairly slow and even, maybe with a few breaks. Ragworm swim with an undulating movement, that is difficult to imitate, but the plastic cup in front on the fly should induce some wiggling movement in the fly. You will have to try and see what speed works best for a compromise between speed and wiggling.

And regarding when you could fish this fly... I'm not sure I understand your question. You could fish with it on your birthday, Christmas morning and a day before or after midnight in April. You will have to explain what you mean to get a more meaningful reply.

Martin

Robert,

Don't wan

Robert,

Don't want to be a mart*ss, but the title of the image is "School of salmon", so no, they are salmon...

Martin

Brian,

Yes, I hav

Brian,

Yes, I have heard of TwitterFeed, but I have stayed away from it, mostly because I have had a few that I have followed, who used TwitterFeed, and I bothered me a bit that I had to read the same news in Twitter that I had already read in my RSS-reader.

But I'll consider serving all our feeds through TwitterFeed - maybe on a different Twitter-stream.

Martin

I found it. Carry on....

I found it. Carry on....

Strip it in fast?

do you strip it in fast? and could you also fish with it a day before or after midnight on april

are those trout

are those trout

Wonder if you've hea

Wonder if you've heard of TwitterFeed (www twitterfeed com) for feeding your blog posts automatically to Twitter.

My guess is

Geoff,

My guess is that your Metz feathers are fine. Cleaning really only applies to cheaper feathers, Chinese and Indian in particular, which are often greasy and have surplus color in them when dyed. If the feathers feel soft, smooth and "dry" and don't break when you tie, you're fine.

I have washed my cheap capes with great results simply by letting them soak, using hair shampoo and after rinsing them using conditioner. After a final rinse, I have dried them with a blow dryer. Older and brittle capes can also become like new with such a treatment.

But my personal experience is that Metz, Whiting, Chevron and a few other brand name materials are as clean as they come right out of the bag.

Martin

I read this article with interest

I read this article with interest as I'm just getting into fly-tying and I want to get started on the right track from the beginning. I just bought 3 Metz #1 Premium neck hackles (Grizzly, Brown and Light Blue Dun) at a great closing-out discount. My question is, do I need to go through the cleaning process with these necks, or are they considered to be adequately cleaned during the processing and packaging?