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Interesting. The images were

Interesting. The images were edited with GIMP on a Linux box. My images appear well in other places. I'll look into the color profile issue on my side. I know GIMP (it's free, general image manipulation program) does allow configuring the saved color profile in several ways.

I might try a test post from Mac and/or Windows too. But Linux is my main deal. I'm a server side programmer so I like my desktop to mirror the server side environment I'm working on (looks like you are running on an Apache Web Server, running on some flavor of Unix....probably Linux).

Good forum. I'll do my best to make it work.

I saw a mouse on you

I saw a mouse on your site, the only time I saw it was demonstrating a piece of equipment I think It was one of Marc Petitjean visesl Or maybe the regal. I have searched high and low for the patten. It is a really cute one, if I keep the little ones happy I get the time to tie what I want while they are playing with thearjeos .
I promised. All I really remember about it is it has discs that fit tightly together ti nake the body. We heed to make this one of these. I supposed I could try to duplicate it but would rather do it right the first time. Thanks for your time and effort,
Sean M. Mooney

I fm hoping to conta

I fm hoping to contact Paul to get some info about Mullet fishing in Christchurch Harbour as I have seen some Utube videos of him fishing there.

Apologies for slightly abusing this Salmon fishing site but does anyone know a mail address for Paul please?

Pete,

Pete,

I'm stocking up on tubes for my local fishing, and will definitely tie this pattern, especially the lower version, which is more sand eel colored.
I like the compact head and the "airy" body. Simple, good looking, fishy. Just my kind of fly.

Martin

Colin,

Colin,

I have no idea why the images acted so strange. The forum software here didn't like the URL's so I downloaded the images and uploaded them locally and changed the links. That worked.

And for the strangely colored attachment thumbs, I have seen that before, usually caused by strange color profiles. I couldn't see anything wrong, though, but deleted the attachments anyway since the images are now inside the post.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Nice fly BTW. Looks like a real killer.

Martin

Colin.

Colin.

I'll look into the issues with the images.

Martin

Best looking streamer in a

Best looking streamer in a long time.

thank you , marvelou

thank you , marvelous flies: i love them!

A very interesting a

A very interesting article. Most of what you write is very much applicable to the popular fly fishery here in Puget Sound in the northwest corner of Washington State. Our quarry, of course, differs; the sea-run cutthroat (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki, the anadromous form of the coastal cutthroat trout) being the most popular. We also fish for resident coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), coho salmon who have foregone the opportunity to go to the ocean, choosing instead to remain within the Sound and even the occasional "blackmouth", a king, or chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) which has opted to live out a similar life history. And, during the late summer and fall, mature members of all of the Pacific salmon species become available to the angler as they return to their natal streams to spawn.

Tackle and techniques seem to be very much alike. Thanks for a good look at fishing in the Baltic.

Dikanya lake emerger - Yellow

Dikanya lake emerger - Yellow saddle.

All the best.

Hi John,
Currently

Hi John,
Currently the book is only available in Kindle/iBook format.
Best regards
Michael

Booby flies flies work any time

Hi pit
Sure. Booby flies flies work anytime of year. You just have to adapt your tackle and fishing technique to the depth in which the fish are holding. In my iBook on Booby flies (review elsewhere on GFF) you can find specialized Booby fishing techniques for all seasons.
Best regard
Michael

Skagit shooting head

Hi Martin:
I have a St. Croix Avid fly rod, 13' 6" long, 7/8 wt. I have a 9 L line that I would like to turn into a skagit shooting head. I also have a DT 11 F line. An expert like you had suggested that I get SA extreme skagit head, 440 grains. Reading through your carefully written article gives me hope I can DIY - which is great because in the end I would become smarter - at this. I wonder though what your thoughts are about building my shooting head, skagit for me, given 9 L or DT 11 F lines that I have. Thanks.

Thank you martin, it is tied

Thank you martin, it is tied big for early season salmon fishing on the Gaula where it works very well.

could give less than

could give less than 1 star I would. After waiting 4 years to visit Alaska I can truly say that I will never come back to this lodge. I have so many complaints ranging from poor service to the quality of the lodge itself its hard to find a place to start.

I suppose I could start at the beginning. I was charged 850 to fly up. The flight was fine airline was good but I found out it should have only cost me 150. David the owner inflated the prices to an outrageous amount.

We were greeted by the staff, Mark our guide was the only saving grace. He was helpful and a great guide. The rest of the staff made our stay very awkward. The strangest thing was the owner was using his son to clean our rooms. I am not sure about Alaska but we in California children are not allowed to work in a place of business. He was a strange kid and kept getting into the adult conversation. we were solicitatated for tips to help pay the owners son.

The food was okay but the cook was somewhat rude and complained about his job. I wasn't expecting to much but the quality was very poor and there no selection. We had appetizers but was made to feel like we were asking for to much and that we were the hungry group.

So let me cover the lodge., it was a glorified shaq. There are so many safety violations I am surprised that it passes as structurally sound. This place had faulty electrical and I actually fell in a hole in the floor. I told the owner and he just said" oh ya we had a leak there" I couldn't believe it!

The fishing was good and our guides were good guys. I caught some great fish but didn't get all my fish that I was supposed to take home. The cook did happen to have salmon patte wich i am pretty sure came from my catch.

The guides had to struggle with poor equipment and vehicle and boat break downs. I felt sorry that they were not being taken care of.

Overall I would never ever, ever recommend this place. Unless you want constant headaches and poor service!

That's a very beautiful fly,

That's a very beautiful fly, and definitely something that could catch a salmon or a sea trout.

Martin

Great idea for winter fishing

great idea for winter fishing. Does it work in the other seasons as well ?

Fly Tying with one hand

Poppy T, I was doing some surfing for hackle guards and discovered a product you need to look at. It is called Evergreen Hand and it is a tool designed to allow one to tie with one hand. I saw a demo of the tool on a Veterans First You tube video but it is something you should take a look at. I don't know how to post a link but you should be able to find it by googling Evergreen hand. Hope this helps and if you have any trouble finding it let me know and I will get my wife to help me with posting a link to the tool.

jakonyx

Thank you Martin. I

Thank you Martin. I really appreciate it.

Rudy,

Look at the

Rudy,

Look at the section I have made specifically for fishing and shopping in the Copenhagen area.

Martin

Hi, names Rudy and I

Hi, names Rudy and I'll be getting into Copenhagen on the 29th of this month and I have a day in Copenhagen and I would love to know a great spot for a sea trout and also a place I can buy a pole and fish tackle :)

I like these streamers. Good

I like these streamers. Good flies. Gets the juices flowing to see good work like this. I fish lots of streamers, including huge long things tied around a snelled hook, up to six seven inches long.

But I fish a lot of very small streamers too. Sometimes I think old fashioned English winged wet flies are really streamers. The original tiers didn't know it. But that's what they were making.

Itty bitty streamers only and inch long don't zero in on big fish only--the monster Roadkill Streamers do. Small streamers catch small fish and big fish. Now I'll have to try making some using your techniques. Incorporating molded plastic eyes is important. Big time.

Admirable

Admirable - your neatly in the making of these flies, something for my inspiring and good example.

Good thread. Good streamers.

Good thread. Good streamers. I didn't read all 5 pages. Did someone mention long streamers with the hook up front might result in too many short strikes? At least in the smaller fish, fresh water context?

Perhaps that's how the good tube fly photos showed up.

I have another take. I make a lot of fresh water streamers much like the originals in this thread, tied on a snelled hook. I use a barrel swivel up front connected to a trailing stinger made with a sharp scud hook. Knot mono to the swivel. Flatten the rear wire loop of the barrel swivel. Snell on a scud hook. Poke the rear of the swivel onto a horizontal beading needle. Tie a streamer onto the flattened loop and the mono knot. Similar to a tube fly I guess. But I like it better. No photo right now. I'll add one soon. A short shank hook on trailing mono hooks more reliably than a long shanked hook. A lot more reliably. And better than a long streamer with a short hook at the head of the fly.