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Matej ,

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 ve

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 ?

Widely available

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,

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.

rodney

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

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.

Photos of the flood!

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,

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 lin

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

thats insane

thats insane

I sell these and I c

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

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.

I am looking for det

I am looking for detailed tying instructions for Wes Drain 20 steelhead pattern

Just what I was looking for

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

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 sa

hi
nice dvd, but sad, that i cut´n get this dvd i Denmark or sendt to Denmark :o(

Sage Z-Axis

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

Like the icicles under your

Like the icicles under your toon in the last shot!

Jan,

Sorry I didn

Jan,

Sorry I didn't get your attention on this one... Next year maybe?

Martin

Martin, a fly fishin

Martin, a fly fishing party ..... you never wrote, you never called, you didn't send flowers, or a card... ;- )

Re: new Sage Z-Axis

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

Possibly one of the

Possibly one of the places but beautiful and spectacular that have known. River Paloma.
!What luck to be able to enjoy them¡

BIG FISH!!!

Hi Esox, that video is great!!! :shock: Very nice. My pike was caught on reservoir Žilina. I live 5 km from this reservoir. There are big big pike, some waylle, and nice brown and rainbown trout. Last weekend I was there and it is unbelievable. I was want to fish some :? I do not know how it say hmm ´´church´´? fish like waylle, there where I caugt my biggest pike. On first cast came contact with big fish. It was pike!!! 😄
On my rod was 0,20 fluocarbon and two little boobies 😄 I don´t know how I was get this fish. It was gooood luck 😉 after take fish from water, fluocarbon do ´´puk´´! 😄 but fish already was in my hands....

Tom,

Look in the

Tom,

Look in the fact box to the right - under the cover. There's the link directly to Ozzie's site.

Martin

Thanks for your insight

Thanks for your insight Ripley! Actually I wasn't that much hyped by Scierra's "saltwater" denomination for their shooting head but well interested in the actual profile of the head which they claim to be optimized for sea trout fishing.

I agree with you that SWFF fishing with light rod is great fun even tough we need to carefully balance the length of the drill for a proper catch and release.

Fenwick rod are indeed of good quality.

Anyone has something else to add on the rod or SH?