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Hi guys,

Hi guys,

I've bought Z-poxy, 5 minutes setting and i thought let's give it a try.
The article about the epoxy miracle gave enough information how to tie the fly.
I took some photo's of my little creations :)
These flies will be used as little bait fish to catch North Sea mackerel and sea bass.

1st fly is with blue

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d33/linocatucci/136_3616.jpg

2nd fly is with chartreuse and a little bit of olive

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d33/linocatucci/136_3617.jpg

Bye,
Lino

I'm sure the stamps are not for sale

Leo,

I'm sure the stamps are not for sale. Bas, who wrote this article years ago, will probably hang on to what he has - if he still has the stamps and the frames.

Martin

Are you aware

Are you aware of the Australian fly fishing FDC and the Austrian one?

This Canadian set...

This Canadian set...what are you selling it for?

Hi Kasper

Great r

Hi Kasper

Great report! You write very well and I hope we can see you again one day in Italy. Perhaps up north for Marble trout and Grayling!!

Impressive Shot. Nic

Impressive Shot. Nice Tackle!

The last pictuer of

The last pictuer of the bats, is fantastisk

Re: rio orbigo drag plate washer

Frank,

You are more than welcome. Glad you found what you needed. And it's Martin Joergensen, not Paul by the way.

Martin

Lovely article

Lovely article and great pictures (as always) Kasper...Unlike my "stinks" pictures!!!
I know the feeling - waking up speaking another langauge - after a power nap.
My wife often wakes up speaking Lithaunian or Russian saying that our 10 month old son is lost!!!! Excuse me - Translate I say?!
My wife dreams of italy and your article didn't help!! Thanks...:-)

Man, I like this met

Man, I like this method of dealing with nodes and straightening. A water soak, what could be harmful about that? Those power fibres have no doubt been moving and dealing with watery fluids all through their existance and it's hard to imagine any harm coming from it. Water or steam has been widely used in bending and shaping woody materials sucessfully for centuries. Besides, the heat treatment would eliminate any residual, unwanted moisture at that point anyway. Good stuff!

Hi,

Hi,

Really great looking place and nice fishes!

There's whitefish over here in Finland too. Mainly its quite small like 15-30cm but it can grow quite a big too. It's quite common fish in Finland but not really popular fish among fly fishers, maybe mainly because the small avarage size. There is some lakes where you can have really good whitefish fishing and some rivers got really good population (actually coming from lakes) of whitefish but mainly small ones.

Here's one picture about whitefish, its 38cm, caucht with #14 size dry fly from a lake.

By the way. Indicators are not really popular here in Finland. More popular is to use 2-3 weighted (lead and tungsten beads) larvas and/or nymphs and short line, fishing with Czech nymphing style. Short casts upstream and weight and size of the flys depending on depth of the stream. Main point is that you get your flies to the bottom of the river and flies swim free :)

I would like to buy

I would like to buy a 10' 6wt 3 piece East Branch fly rod. Can anyone help me find one?

Your right Martin, great pics

Your right Martin, great pics. There are quite a few different whitefish species around the world. There are lots of the Mountain Whitefish here in BC and a few other Canadian provinces.

Here's a link from the Fish BC website that describes the Whitefish and all the species here in BC. I hope this is the info you were looking for Moreno.

http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/angling/game_fish/mntwhite.phtml

Whitefish

Grant, Moreno,

I'm pretty sure that the whitefish is the Prosopium williamsoni, which seems to be common in the US.

I have caught a few in BC too. Nice fish, actually, but not really considered interesting by local anglers.

When we talk whitefish here in Denmark (AKA helt in Danish) I think we're talking Coregonus nasus, which is common here, and often targeted on fly in some of our bigger lakes.

I have seen these fish spawning in Sweden, and man, there are some monsters in there!

This fish is probably about 3 kilos or 6 lbs, and as you can see on the next image, there were many. We saw hundreds.
http://10stille.dk/pictures/10stille/20051129/medium_pict0667.jpg

All the grey contours here are whitefish in the 2-3 kilos class. I litterally stood inbetween them and fired my camera and flash with no reactions at all. They were much too busy...
http://10stille.dk/pictures/10stille/20051129/medium_pict0699.jpg

Martin

Well Moreno, I'm really not

Well Moreno, I'm really not sure what the Mountain Whitefish has for a Latin name or such info, but I will look through some of the info I have on local fish species to see what I can find. Funny thing is, most people here don't know much about the species and consider them a bottom "garbage' feeding nuisance species. The truth is, they feed on nothing but nymphs and are actually a great fighting and eating fish. They don't really jump much, but do "bull dog" and make some rather fierce runs. Nice part about most people not considering them a sport fish, no one really targets them and there always seems to be a lot of them around. That's alright, more fish for me to catch then........ 😉 A really big one will reach 2-2.5 kg. but the average is more around the 1-1.5 kg. size. If I find the info your requested, I'll post it soon.

Hi Grant

Hi Grant

Nice pics and fish. The Swift Mountain Whitefish looks like an interesting fish. Could you tell me more about it like latin name etc?

Thanks

Hi Grant

Hi Grant

Nice pics and fish. The Swift Mountain Whitefish looks like an interesting fish. Could you tell me more about it like latin name etc?

Thanks

One last Pic

One last Pic

Big heavy Stonefly nymphs

Big heavy Stonefly nymphs still working well just this past weekend at the Blackwater River. I spent a completely wonderful three days of the August long weekend fishing the Blackwater River about 120 kms north west of Quesnel. I worked about 30 kms of the river, due to rather tough canyons and limited road access, I covered a fair bit of ground. Dry patterns were only of limited success, so I mainly worked the heavy nymphs and streamer patterns. Was a fun weekend. Here's a few pics.

i really like the fl

i really like the flies you tied because they look so real and life like.However i honestly see no reason to spend that much time on a fly that good only to catch the same fish you could have caught on the same fly without soo much detail. I find it rather pointless.On the downside it probably takes a couple of fish before those "works of art " are destroyed. I really do though think that your flies are amazingly real looking and neat, but i see no use to fish with them.

Vijayavarman,

Cli

Vijayavarman,

Click on the image and you will be taken to an article about this subject.

Martin

How to maintenance F

How to maintenance Fly Rod, Spinning Rod, Beach casting Rod, Reels adn Fly Line.
Please give me the details for the above mentioned.

Have followed throug

Have followed through your series and it makes a much clearer picture of what is required (ok - most of what is required).
I've been reading up on making fly rods (from graphite blanks through to raw 'boo culms) - and am now playing with some bamboo kicking about. It may not be Tonkin cane - but some properties should be reflective - which is fine for now. Starting slowly, building up as I go. But will definately be back off and on to see what's new.

Top notch series Harry - top notch. Thanks for sharing.

Very well put-togeth

Very well put-together article. I might just have a go myself. Thanks very much!