Hi Brian,
What days would you be in DK, a friend and I will be spending a week at the camping site at Fyns Hoved form the 29th of March til the 5th of April. If you would be interested we could try and hook up for a day or two.
Paul Kalbrener
Yea i heard that some argued it was a salmon, though i can't personally tell from the clip. Was it ever proved that it actually was a salmon?
Great photo! The seabass fibe has kicked in. Soon the watertemperature will rise along the Dutch coast and seabass will cruise our waters again after along winter.
Hopefully in April we can start fishing for them, by boat and in the bellyboat.
Brian
If the tandemstreamer was to be used for pike, I would opt for a "bite off" free connection between the two hooks. This could be established by attaching a swivel plus connector to the bend of the first hook with fine iron- or copper wire. Ty off in the normal way, use headcement and ready. On top of that it does make one flexibel in tactics, because it enables you to fish a mono streamer of to mount to big streamers in a row. Sometimes big pike love those prey lining up........
Kind regards,
Vassenden
Babic,
superglue becomes stiff, so I am using AquaSeal og other flexible-when-dry-glue. Here I am using a Loon knot glue.
Kasper Mühlbach
Very nice description of how to tie this classic dry fly. Once you master the simple techniques described, you will love tying this pattern. I tie more of these than almost any other dry fly pattern.
super glue or....?
I fish primarily on the danish coast ant my overall favorite is a good big hairy mudler for nightfishing.....but in the daytime another favorite is "Jorgens Demon"......
Just tied a bunch of "Epoxy Miracles" in green and in brownish - so maybe a new favorite is comin' up :D
Shame it turnt out to be a salmon :roll:
Otherwise a very funny clip and an amazing feat considering it was landed on a size 12 double fly and 0.25mm leader! It took 2.5 hours to land.
I always thought that carrying a landing net is a wise peactice when fishing for larger fish. Nice clip,
TL Florian
I fished briefly this morning in Strangford Lough , had two bites ..but I missed them
I must tie it in pink and try it
Andy
Dont tie loops into your leader, when creating the different segments let the tag end hang, you only need 3-4" of material. Also, another popular thing to do is drop the nymphs right off the bend of the hook of the previous nymph.
Personally I've used these realistic flies in a variety of conditions and have never had a bite. As soon as I put on a pink sparkle shrimp (basically the same as the glitter shrimp but using dubbed SLF sparkle instead of fritz) I get fish almost straight away.
http://www.globalflyfisher.com/patterns/glimmer/
As with most of my experiences, both for sea trout and trout, it's not what looks good to the fisherman, but what looks good to the fish. It seems, the simpler the fly, the better it is :shock:
Corbin,
I keep my Manfrotto tripod away from saltwater as much as possible, but it's still quite tainted (if not rusted) from contact with salt. These gadgets are not built to endure salt, and a freshwater rinse now and then can do wonders. If you're planning extended use in and near saltwater some grease over screws and locks might be a good idea.
Martin
I just purchased the Basalt (GT2931) 3 section w/322RC2 head. Love it, do you partial submerge your tripod in salt water?
I have a kayak expedition planed in the Everglades and was concerned about the possible salt water effects on my Gitzo Basalt?
Any feed back is much appreciated.
Corbin
I do not know. But I has been inspired by this article: http://www.globalflyfisher.com/patterns/pinkpig/
I have used brown or orange coloured shrimps so far, so I am planning to try something new.
was just asked to contact you as my uncle in ireland as me to come to redditch to buy some stuff of you.....but shocked to find your not here, as im just down the road from redditch here in birmingham.....of redditch.....well not really now are you!
Ernesto,
No one prohibits an artificially mounted sky, and if Paquito's friends want to vot for him, they are welcome. Each man has one vote, and unless that is misused, you can get your friends to vote the most crappy image a winner. It's not in the spirit of this service, but can be done. We can intervene if the voting gets too crazy - and we do.
Martin
b0ogaloo. Your shrimp seems to me very realistic and certainly will catch fish. I tied some shrimps too and I am looking forward to test it next week in Denmark.
This photo isn't a natural photo!!! the sky is artificialy mounted!!! The people that vote Paquito's photos are friends of him!!!!
Unless the fish was caught in some kind of restricted or protected area, I see no reason whatsoever why the angler should be considered "guilty" for taking it home to eat.
My dear friends,
It wasn't necessary to buy this kind of tools, you only needed an ordinary needle.
The results are simply the same.
Yes Eduardo I totally agree with you but some so called themselves (Anglers) still does not understand that a trout swimming in the lake has much more value than smoked by the Weiss family in Bariloche where this nice rainbow finished. I submitted the picture just to show to the anglers of other parts of the world the kind of trouts we have in Patagonia. I think we must keep on working hard to stop having fishermen like the one in this picture!!!!
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