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Submitted by Kelvin on

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Nice looking recipe I will have to try
Happy New Year and a great 2012 to you Martin

Hi Harold,
I fish Straight Shores,Dingleys and N.W. River area the most..
I try to stay away from the Songo River crowd on the weekends....
See you out there Tight Lines Steve

Don, your Psychedelic Skunk is one of the most beautiful streamers that I have seen. Your selection of materials is wonderful.

Submitted by Harold Pettipas on

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I also troll heavily on Sebago l. for "OUR" LL Salmon.
I have a place in Naples, belong to Sebago Lake Anglers Assoc. , enjoy fly tying Bucktail streamers and our great state in general.
My CB handle on the boat is Jack Rabbit, so if you hear me please give me a shout!
Look forward to seeing some of your ties.
Harold

Same purpose, but you can also use to the loop to better secure material to the hook. Some tyers use the loop as a spot to place bucktail or feather stems. You pry the loop open slightly, put in your bucktail or feather, and the close the loop with tying thread and it makes a really durably fly. For streamers such as these, I find it makes a mice platform to sit the wing on rather than just a round shank. The better (nicer) hooks have a tapered loop so that the loop doesn't create a lot of extra bulk.

JR,

Good piece of detective work! It certainly was a nice and scenic place, and I'm sure you will get it to yourself, because as I remember it, it was quite remote and it wasn't exactly littered with signposts revealing its existence.

Hope you will have as nice a time there as I had.

Martin

Submitted by W I J Rees on

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Hi Martin. Just to let you know that I have located the reservoir that you were fishing on, It took some considerable time to find it with google as I did not know it existed. I can appreciate that access would be difficult as it seems to be in a remote location. One of those hidden Gems. Regards JR

Submitted by Bob Hendry 173… on

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I've heard a number of tyers mention the "paper method" of keeping the different colors of bucktail separated when bending it back to form the head. Can anyone explain that method to me? thanks!

Bob H.

Well done Peter. I really enjoy seeing flies with grouse feathers in them! I was unfamiliar with this fly and surprised that it was one of Carrie Stevens. Probably for the reasons mentioned in the write up. Thanks bringing it to light for me.

Doyle,

Droppers can be any type of fly, but oftentimes they are smaller nymphs or wet flies. I have personally combined muddlers with everything from small hare's ear bugs to Woolly Buggers almost the size of the muddler.

Tie the dropper on the line as shown in the article about the Welsh fly Diawl Bach. You will need a small tag to tie it on, and the distance depends of many things, not least your casting skills, but about a couple of feet or three will work in most cases.

Another way of fishing two flies is the New Zealand style where a second, smaller fly is tied to a piece of tippet attached to the hook bend of the top fly - in this case the muddler. This method will put the muddler in top and allow you to fish a smaller, sinking fly below it.

Hope this helps.

PS: Im working on articles on the subject of adding a dropper tag (there are several ways of doing this) and rigging several flies on a leader. They weill be published during the early spring.

Martin

Submitted by Doyle Jackson … on

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Could you expand a little bit on the dropper? What are you using for the dropper and about how far from the muddler minnow is it?

Submitted by DANIEL DEMPSEY on

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GREAT LOOKING FLY . WE USE THEM HERE IN TASMANIA.
[ EX FIFER }

Submitted by mike williams on

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Hi Don, Caught your bio on streamers 365 and realized you were a Pennsylvania native as well. I moved back to Pa about 3 years ago after living and guiding out west. I spend almost every moment I can chasing Musky with big streamers in the Susquehanna River. Do you still guide here in Pa?

Submitted by mike williams on

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Hi Don, Read about ya on the streamers 365 page and realized you were located here in Pa. I'm not too far from ya, I live in Montandon just across the river from Lewisburg. I've been chucking big stuff at muskies for the last couple of years, but also chase about anything else swimming from smallies and carp to streamer hunting big trout. Big show coming up in February right there in your back yard, ya gonna go? Check out my blog sometime on blogger, it's bigflychucker, quite a few pics of my streamers there. Have a happy new year!

Darren,

I will have my streamers in the mail in a couple of days. I will send them priority post so that you get them as quickly as possible. This has been a big learning curve for me as I really am not familiar with feather wing patterns so I hope that these flies are of the quality and standard required for your project. Thank you again for allowing me to participate and I look forward to tying some more for future projects.

Submitted by Craig Dirrim on

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Steve - one of the guys I work with was in your shop last week and gave me some chick-a-bou for your emerger. That stuff is so good even dumb Nebraska trout are in awe.

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