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Envy, envy,

I envy you guys in several ways:

- I didn't catch my first fish this year yet. Haven't even fished actually...
- I've rarely seen such huge bones. Dare I ask where they were caught? Hawaii?
- I wish I had sunfish and bluegill in my back yard. I'd be out there every day with a small rod.

Happy new year!

Martin

Hi again keld.
I wa

Hi again keld.
I was just thinking about the shutter/exposuretime does it mean 1/53 of a second?
i think my eos 350 would have made a rather dark picture with the iso at 80?
Or am i missing something?
/Allan

Hi Allan.

Thanks

Hi Allan.

Thanks for the nice words !

The picture was taken on a cloudy day, that's why the colours are so natural, and almost no shadows appeared.

Keld

great picture keld.

great picture keld.
Beautifull colors.

was there a lot of light the day the photo was taken?

regards Allan

Coch-y-Bonddu

D Marson,

The book is available from the Paul Morgan's Welsh bookstore Coch-y-Bonddu. There are currently several copies available from about 25-30.- UK£

Martin

first fish of 2007

My first fish of the year was a handsome male Bluegill taken on a soft hackle. I can't imagine a better fly for sunfish. My second was a Largemouth Bass.

Unable to find a copy in the UK

Great reading, This is a book i have been after for along time,and after reading this article makes more determend to get a copy, but so far been unable to find a copy in the uk, CAN YOU HELP. I know it was reprinted in 1986 by Charles Bllack.d

Carp.

Hello there,
in our country carp is fish number one, so they introduce this fish too much to our rivers and lakes! They are everywhere! But its still not to easy to get them on fly, like Esox wrote: Messy, dirty small nymphs, very small streamers and buzzers. In rivers we fish for them with short nymph and its luck to catch them somewherein a school and fight im streams is very hard! But in still watters or slow parts of rivers a lot of guyes here fish for them nearly like for a rainbows!!! And there is picture form czech tiyer and he named this fly somethink like a carp killer.......

Amazing.,..

When I posted this topic, I was just hoping that Ill find somebody who has beeen there or who is from there!!!! Thanks you very much, Feridun!!!! Could you tell me more? Or send some pictures? Bacause Iam any information will be great! Or you ll go with us 😄 ! So could you tell me more about Abant lake??Is there safe? How far is it from Antalia or Ankara? Thank you so much!!
Best regards Dalibor

I posted on the flyforums

I posted on the flyforums regarding this trip, but no reply........

Hopefully I can get over and get distantstreams to steer me towards the monsters 😄

Hallo Florian,

i cannot help with your trip, but when you want to go to fehmarn...

Hej Feridun,

did you tried for seatrout on Kvitsoy?

That would be nice, thank you

That would be nice, thank you!

My biggest trout from norway was 3 kilo, catched 2003 on the isle Bømlo at the west coast. The boat was for repair so I had to use a spinning rod - sorry :oops:

The best "pattern" was a Mepps, again sorry for the ugly ugly, but it worked well :twisted: Maybe somebody have an idea to tie this colours into a trout streamer?

Wiggy, I heared from some arctic char at the region Birkeland, Arendal, but nothing special yet. Pike and perch too, I must try it out.

...something like that...?...

I dont have golden pearls, but some different brown. Instead of the poly material i used saltwater yak hair in this fly. Trying again 😉

My killer perch fly is:-

Thread - Black
Tail - Pink Marabou
Body - black cactus chenille
Eye - Silver chain

As simple as that. Catches me perch in bucket loads!

Great fly, though I'm

Great fly, though I'm wondering if I could get permission from yourself to change the silver/transparent beads for gold transparent beads, it would represent a small brownie perfectly.

Back to the tying table........

Nice raggie, I use the same

Nice raggie, I use the same prinicpal for lugs, but just use olive instead of orange, and obviously make it a bit fatter.

Haven't caught anything on it yet, but the arrival of a new daughter during the lug swimming season maybe had something to do with it 🙄

Yeah, sounds like a good plan

Yeah, sounds like a good plan.

And if you're down this way, drop me a line and I can guide you to the big one's 😄

So have you had any big ones recently. I've had loads of 500g and the biggest around 1.3kg. There was a 3kg sea trout caught about an hour after I had fished the same place, typical!

This year I'm starting a

This year I'm starting a guiding service, so if you would like any guiding let me know.

During the winter I SWFF mostly sea trout and cod, then in the spring it's trout in the lowland and as it warms up I start fishing in the mountains. The obviously salmon fishing during the season. I'm lucky ebough to be married to a norweigan girl who's family owns some of the Mandalselva, so I fish for free!

If you like trout, I can recommend you have a day with me. I've discovered some lakes where the average size is roughly 1kg and upto 2-3kg both brown trout and brook trout. The biggest that was caught this year in a net was 7kg! and that's a brownie.

Otherwise I'm currently finding out about the arctic char in the area.

As regards the SWFF, cod fishing is best during the winter/spring. Now the sea is full of them, almost a hassle as they take the fly before the sea trout do!

I'm not really well known in Tovdalselva, but from Søgne to lindesnes, I'm very well known.

If you want anymore tips, just ask.

Hi Wiggy,

mange takk for your answering!

An englishman living in Mandal - lucky you! I am every year fishing the last three weeks of the season at mandal, mostly zone 4. But 2006 all of the catched brownies and small salmons had parasites, nematodes. My wife don’t like it…
At this year I will try in june the Tovdalselva near Arendal. There are a lot of very nice waters for brownies too in the region Birkeland, maybe you know a good water for pike there?

For saltwater I have tried the most of your flies, the white wooley buggers catched some nice pollacks and seatrouts, but when the water was clear and still I only had luck with the orange-yellows.

A dark black wooley bugger brought me a lot of fine cods at the beach of Spangereid and at the Lindesnes Fyr, it worked very well at the evening on a floating line. But the last two years I didn't catch any cod there, maybe too much fishing?

I saw a lot of people while beachfishing at Spangereid with worms and pieces of herring, there cannot be many fish anymore! :(