Beautiful concept. Ive been toying with these and other glass beads, having made several soft hackle, Yorkshire-style spiders with bead bodies. This dovetails nicely from that.
I only hope these work on my SE USA bluegill - I suspect they will.
Another winner- thanks Martin J. for making it possible. I have bunches of these beads, and they are common as dirt. I'd like to add they are usually seen where I buy them as 6/0 size or sometime "E."
I've experimenting with ways to use them, as well as working out a good nymph pattern for next season - now I know what I'll do.
Thank you, sir!
Wonderful article-I'm brand new to making a fly of any kind. I purchase commercial tied jigs primarily for fishing
Coho Salmon in the Northwest, Chehalis river system. The Bloody Zonker has the color & heavier body Coho like.
I will be casting 0ne quarter oz. round ball jigs. This pattern will be tied on 1/ 0 2/0 jig hooks, the water is typically stained and fast moving. I may improvise a little because of the hook size.
Anyway - thanks again for a great tutorial on the tying of this fly. Will let you know how it works. Al Bahr
Gary Soucie' book Wooly Wisdom actually has this pattern ive tied and fished it here in Maine and done fairly well on local waters, definitely not the killer here in the states that it is in Scandanavia.
I saw this review and purchased the book in e form. It is a great book to learn some of the history of flies and flyfishermen/flytyers. I am greatly enjoying this book and I would recommend it!
A nice video and a nice release of a very nice fish, but maybe you could enlighten me somewhat, I've never seen so many 5wt rods with a fighting butt and full wells grip. Of course you could be building your own, or doing plug ins for Orvis, but anyway well done.
G'day Martin⦠[and Jay flew in for the weekend from Durbanâ¦YIKES!]
The Fly Tying Symposium has expanded over the past several years, but it's still like a Private Cabaret compared to the Fly Fishing Show which is like a three ring circus on steroidsâ¦
They are both great fun and are organized and run by the same swell folks but they have very different personalitiesâ¦
For tying, come to the cabaret in November⦠for tying AND everything else, come to Cirque du Somerset in late Januaryâ¦
I'm once again looking forward to tying/welding @ the Bear's Den booth and have already started make a game plan⦠unless a blizzard changes everything⦠weshallseeâ¦
Of all the curious things that I saw at the Symposium, Jim Matson's Pulse Disc left the biggest impressionâ¦
Where does phly end and lure beginâ¦
perhaps I should refer to these as phluresâ¦
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Imagine the phluttering possibilities...
Always catches fish for me, period, great lets see if theyre hungry pattern. Tie some and go catching!
Nice brookie, looks to be from the Rangeley genetic pool, big headed brookies in that gene pool. Beautiful fish regardless, love my state and its abundant fly fishing resource of native fish, a rarity in some states sadly. Thanks for sharing video ill have to do the same soon got a whoppa land locked on video from 2002, 7.98 lbs, on 5x woot woot.
Wow, great video Jorgensens the man. Our sea run brown season just started to warm up the last two weeks, have been rather lucky having landed 7 fish all 20 inches plus in the last 3 weeks. New England has minimal sea run trout opportunities, and those in the know are reluctant to share info about hot spots or patterns, but thanks to your sight and insight over the years I have become an accomplished sea run angler tyvm for the knowledge and wisdom.
Thanks Martin for the nice editing and the "broadcast" of this pattern!
I would like to encourage everyone that tries tying and fishing this pattern to send me news (and eventually photos) of the experience.
Share with me your stories of success! It will be great for me to see what is achieved with this one and help me develop further patterns.
All my best!
GW
Pete,
I would have love to go! I went a few times, and thoroughly enjoyed the show, meeting the GFF crew plus a large bunch of old and new friends. I even got to fish on several occasions - local small streams, stripers and stocked browns on Long Island.
I can see that this year would have put me face to face with a lot of people whom I haven't met - including yourself - as well as a whole bunch of old friends.
I'm glad the show was good. It usually is. I almost regret that I didn't go, but it's a bit more than a car drive from here...
Martin
Gotta love those eyes! Great tie Bob!
Attended the International Fly Tying Symposium⦠BRILLIANT!
'Got to spend some QUALITY time with some SPECIAL friends...
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'discovered Jim Matson's Pulse Disc by BrineFlyInnovationsâ¦
'swims like Johnny Weissmuller and screams EAT ME !!!
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on a more phestive note...
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Superb work, an informative article and a great design. I too am an engineer and have been thinking about a project such as this for a while now. I have large workshop machinery so can use larger bar stock and I'm aiming more toward a 7/8 weight for sea trout and an 11/12 weight for salmon. Great descriptions here and definitely the "poke in the ribs" that I need to get started.
Have you got any plans to incorporate a reasonably simple drag system to future designs?
Thank you, keep up the good work.
Thank you for leadercalc. I am new at flyfishing. Leader construction has been the most confusing part of flyfishing for me so far. Leadercalc has helped a great deal.
I have one suggestion and one question.
My suggestion is to add an "ALL" option under the drop-down for leader length and tippet size. That would allow a list of all available leaders for any given line weight.
My question is; how can I find a source that would show the philosophy or theory behind each individual leader choice?
Thanks again for leadercalc.
Charlie Pike
cpikemi@comcast.net
Martin
I'm just getting into fly tying and steelhead fishing. All of this is excellent information for me as a beginner. You have done your research extremely well, along with your presentation of the material, in all of your articles.
Thank you for your dedication to the sport,
J
Progressing very nicely Benoit,lovely looking hairwing..
Thanks for publish my coment, but I think that the question is not stop fish in this places (Strobel in Las buitreras, and Tsimane, in Rio Grande), but the question is to stop feedind the EGO showing big "animals", I know GFF is for this, and also to educate the fisherman, this is the most important mission of this cybersapace.....
Absolutely love this fly, but finding the peacock pheasant isn't easy, any ideas of what other feathers could be used as the cheek?
Thanks Chris
It is a hard feather to find, and I don't think there is an easy sub, but I would tie in a guinea hen feather with a jungle cock nail in front perhaps. If you try it out, send it and I'll post it.
D
Cool, I'll try it out and let you know how it works out!
from:kichi:Japan
I have east branch 9' 4wt 3 piece rod, which I've got more than 13years ago, by internet shopping.
I have many famous brands flyrods, but east branch rod is my most favarite rod, best action, easy to
rollcast, and beautiful handmade craftmanship. I am looking for east branch rods through internet for longtime.
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