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I told you so...

Hi Feridun,

There is no need to thank me. You caught the fish and deserve the credit.
It's nice to hear that you used a size 12. Most would shudder at such a small fly and the rest would not believe that a 12 would stand up to sea trout.

If you just consider the size of natural shrimps and scuds that sea trout feed on then a anything from a size 10 through to a 16 would be more fitting. By using a smaller hook, you won't loose more fish.

67cm is a very nice sea trout. I can imagine the moment. Did sweat run down your back and your mouth dry up?

The smallest hook I have ever used at the coast was a 16. It was a scud pattern, in fact a Czech nymph pattern designed for streams but I presented it to a sea trout feeding in cm's of water. I downed the tippet to a .16mm and took the trout. A 51cm coloured fish last year. I didn't even get my waders or boots wet that day.

Anyway...I am really pleased for you.

Perhaps now, some of the critics will be convinced that a hook size 2 and 4 is over kill - at least for sea trout.

It's not the size that counts but what you can do with it :D

Ripley.

Great. My son sent

Great. My son sent it to me and I appreciate it. He just caught several over 20 on the Snake in Idaho using the Zuddler. I live in Henderson, KY and plan on tying some of the Zuddlers to try on the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam.

Hei Wiggy :wink:

Hei Wiggy :wink:

Look here is something about the hooks:
[url]http://globalflyfisher.com/tiebetter/hooks.htm[/url]

I am using in Stavanger coasts always "Daiichi" Hooks. They are really sharp and strong.
[url]http://www.anglersportgroup.com/products_detail.asp?ID=331&CatID=4&SubC…]
(I`m tying only wet flies on it)

After (DistantStreams) Ripley`s posting about pattern sizes :idea: I bought hooks in size [b:21073b9814]12[/b:21073b9814]
I startet to tie wet flies on it and I have caught last week my first seatrout (67 cm) with hook size [b:21073b9814]12[/b:21073b9814] He was right! [color=blue:21073b9814]
[Thanx Ripley] [/color:21073b9814]

[size=9:21073b9814]PS: If the hooks are saltwater resist or not I wash them after fishing.[/size:21073b9814]

Greetz from Stavanger to Mandal :D

Hi Martin,

I am s

Hi Martin,

I am sorry if I offended you. I did not mean to. It was just that I really wanted to read more about the subject and then all of a sudden the popunders were popping up all over my screen. I wrote the comment in the heat of the moment just after killing the umteenth popup. I should have waited 5 minutes.

The most important part of my comment is the last sentence though. I do think (as a fellow designer of sorts) that this site is awsome.

I have visited quite a few Fly Fishing sites lately after dusting of my fly rod that I bought as a teenager on a holiday in Scotland with two mates, some 30 years ago. I had never used the rod. I don't think I even cought a single fish with it. But now the fly fever has gotten to me. And I must say I can't get enough of this site. Keep up the good work.

Theo

p.s. I corrected the typo in the previous emailaddress.

I use a pair of hemo

I use a pair of hemostats & use a lighter to burn both ends & make a pair at a time

looks like this O---O works very well on spent mayflies, shrimp or almost any nymph critter

Nice article. Do yo

Nice article. Do you have any experience with Whiting Bird Fur? Could you please e-mail me your source for marabou.

Thanks,
Rick B.

Martin Loop do a

Martin

Loop do a table of length of head of their custom series vs. length/AFTM rating of rods which should be available on their website - unfortunately they don't specify weights. Can anyone help in that regard?

David

Martin,

The weigh

Martin,

The weights quoted in the article are for single-handed rods - have you any advice for head weights to match AFTM ratings for double-handed rods?

This is a Rudd, and

This is a Rudd, and in particular it is a Golden Rudd, don't see too many of them these days.

Just a bit of hangover fun in

Just a bit of hangover fun in photoshop.

any pic of the seabass?

The weather is still ok, and

The weather is still ok, and for some years now we don't have a strong winter that brings lost of ice. So fishing for pike can be done throughout the winter. Pikeseason lasts till march 31 (how you read the rules ;) ) and lasts till the end of june. Seabass is a fish that stay in these waters from may to october.
Today i went fishing with the bellyboot, had a beautifully colored one.p

[img:9f2dba56a3]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/Dendro/fishing/IMG_09912.jpg[/im…]

I don't have big plans for pike, whenever i want to go fishing i go for a coouple of hours. You never really know where the big ones are. So it can always turn out in pleasant surprises[/img]

I meant....

Guys, I really found them, - maybe a meter below the ceiling, where the aquarium ended. :lol:

...just wanted to say, seatrout probably occupies higher water levels, but I may be completely wrong. So, smart ones, the stage is yours!

Thank you for some v

Thank you for some very useful information. I just started building bamboo spinning rods and collecting a few old bamboo fly rods from ebay. Why have'nt bamboo spinning rods been popular? I like a big pole 8 to 9ft for bass and trout. I'll let you know how my first turns out. Where is the best place to purchase a Winchester Bamboo Fly pole?
Thanks again,
Kevin

Re: shallow water

[quote:45e7fc2926="vanuz"][quote:45e7fc2926="Pike"]Hi Vanuz, thanks, it makes sense but generally I have no such problem with intermediate line too. At first I thought if the fish hunt for their prey in upper layers of water.[/quote:45e7fc2926]

Not long ago I visited an aquarium...salt water of course... Apart from the others, there was a huge cylindrical one - right in the middle of the room, it might have been 4-5 metres high. It was basically stocked with fish of all kinds. I kept looking inside for about 5 minutes, call me blind, but I couldn´t find seatrouts there.

:lol: Guess where I eventually found them?[/quote:45e7fc2926]

Vanuz: On someone's frying pan? :D

Guess?

Hey Vanuz,

Guess where I eventually found them?

A. You didn't
B. In your dreams
C. On the end of someone elses rod
D. None of the above. I can't fish for sea trout but enjoy looking as if I can.

Ripley :D

Very cool fly!! Take

Very cool fly!! Takes a bit of time to tie up, but I think it will be very effective in a few streams/rivers I know of. Also I added a "yolk" to each pom pom by adding 1/4 strand of a different color which looks very attractive.

Simple and sweet. th

Simple and sweet. thank you!

Re: shallow water

[quote:c4075e5798="Pike"]Hi Vanuz, thanks, it makes sense but generally I have no such problem with intermediate line too. At first I thought if the fish hunt for their prey in upper layers of water.[/quote:c4075e5798]

Not long ago I visited an aquarium...salt water of course... Apart from the others, there was a huge cylindrical one - right in the middle of the room, it might have been 4-5 metres high. It was basically stocked with fish of all kinds. I kept looking inside for about 5 minutes, call me blind, but I couldn´t find seatrouts there.

:lol: Guess where I eventually found them?

shallow water

Hi Vanuz, thanks, it makes sense but generally I have no such problem with intermediate line too. At first I thought if the fish hunt for their prey in upper layers of water.

Re: Sea trout fishing with floating line

[quote:c71a74d82b="Pike"]Hello guys, what is the biggest advantage of using floating line? As I can see a lot of danish flyfishers use floating line instead of intermediate line. Thanks for your answer[/quote:c71a74d82b]

I (and we) usually fish shallow water spots, where the fish come to feed, so there is absolutely no need to get the fly deep down. Moreover, flies do not get stuck in weed or rocks on the bottom.

Salwater gear

A couple of days ago I returned from my trip to danish salt. During this fishing trip I used 5wt rod instead of my traditional 8wt. The wind was terrible, espcially from north. On many places no heavy rods helped us. When the wind was not so strong, 5wt rod was sufficient for my fishing. The only problem I had was cigar handle. The solution is easy, I will change from 5wt with cigar handle rod to 6wt full wells handle rod.

They turn pretty dark in

They turn pretty dark in these murky waters.
I think it was about 3,5lb so it's nothing big. I just know how to snap the frame;)

When is your closed season for pike and predators and what season do you fish seabass? Im pretty eager to get down to your canals.

The nightfrost strangely still have'nt struck stockholm but Jan had -6degress when he went to work this morning. Now it's time for the race we can't win. The one against the ice!

Any big winterfishingplans? Is there any ice down in Holland?

Theo,

I gather th

Theo,

I gather that you are referring to the links to the locofoam site, which does not exist any more?

Our problem is that this story was written in 2002 - 5 years ago - and that we have no chance of checking these links. When sites die, we try to remove or correct links, but it's a never ending game.

I will remove and put up a note on these immediately and hope for gentler reactions and more forgiveness next time you stumble upon such links...

Martin

Do you realize that

Do you realize that you irritate the hell out of people puting up links like the ones above. Especially on a high quality website such as this one :(