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[quote:a0f7f39cbb="Abraxas"]Hiya Ruza, I'm from Holland too, and also still rather new to flyfishing (approx. 1 year). I hear fishing for asp is just about the right time now in Holland in the large rivers. Going to try to catch one myself this weekend in the Merwede.[/quote:a0f7f39cbb]

Hi Abraxas, good to see i'm not the only Dutych-guy round here :)
I just landed my first asp on the fly and i recommend that you get a firm grip on your rod when fishing on them, the bites are extremely hard :D . Thought a big pike had attacked my streamer, turns out to be an 40 cm asp :shock: 8)
The Merwede is a good place to start, just go on the breakwaters with low tide and start fishing straight trough the currents in the channel when the tides is coming up.
Good luck and let me know if you had any succes.

Greetings,

Ruza
Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands

Hi Martin and friends
I have finally arranged that it is posiible to join you all at the summit friday and saturday.
Is it still posible to sign up?
Is there a place to put up a tent nearby?

Regards Ivar Thordal

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Hi Kasper i do like this fly going now to have a go, it just looks right . Thanks Jan

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I am looking to find the value of a Bob Mead praying mantis under glass #'ed 47/150. Do you know who I might contact to sell this?

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Fly fishing is not sport only, it is a way of life , it is a philosophy a poetry in movement
Thanks for this wonderful picture, from Chile where wordl end

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HI i have been tying trout flies for years, and now being taught by my good friend Dave Riding about salmon flies, My God people dont realise the amount of time you would have put in to tie this great fly. I didnt even know 95% salmon flies have a tapperd body. it will take me years now to get any good well i hope so anyway.But the flies cool and looks brill, i wish i could tie like that take care Jan

"maybe one should just go fishing as quick as possible, instead of thinking so mutch about a question that is more likely never to be answered"...

:D

Point taken. Just enjoy it. Ask a question get a thousand different answers.
If we knew the answer, fishing would be boring.

Regards
Ripley

One possibility:
"They", might be cod and not the sea trout. Cod are very common around sunset and sunrise and jump, hunt in the shallows and make "popping" sounds at the surface.
Unfortunately, these cod don't reach great sizes but are good game.

As for missing the fish...That's fishing.
My guess is as good as the next persons...Ask a question get a thousand different answers. There's no right way to fish and conditions employ different tactics.
Standing in your waders (assuming they don't leak), I would of done the same but may have moved on to another area to fish rather than give the cod (if it was them), a bit of a giggle.

Just keep at it...

RD

We are two people that are in need of lift from kopenhagen to odense both friday and sunday (ofcourse we could go by bus) and we will be depending on fellow attenders kindness of letting us co-ride in some car around the summit.
best regards Fredrik

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You're nutts. I have been through hazmat classes and you're gona kill yourself or somone around you. One drop of that stuff on a door knob at the turning point and left to dry will blow your hand off. It activates with friction. I highly discurage this method.

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I just had the pleasure of butchering 6 adolescent and adult roosters for the freezer. Only the adult was skinned, the rest were plucked...not as bad of a chore as most people make it out to be. My favorite way to humanely kill a bird is to have someone hold it quite close to their body and gently roll it over on its back. This kind of relaxes and hypnotizes the bird. After a minute like that the bird is fairly still, I then take a very sharp knife and cut the carotid vessel, making sure I don't cut the esophagus or trachea. The bird bleeds out fairly quickly with its heart still beating so all the blood is removed. Then we skin or blanch for plucking. We don't usually severe the spinal column until after the feathers are removed. It is much cleaner that way.

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Wooow... Best information on leaders I have ever found.. Thank you so much for your work, you've really done a great job.. There is no better thing around and probably will never be.... So much useful information about the most important thing in Flyfishing, the leader! My compliments

Hey Greg, did more of the same, lost some OK smallies then it got dark. Check out the satellite photo of the place at google maps and you can see where the current runs.

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After growing up in the Pacific Northwest amist some of the finest steelhead and samon fisheries I have fished for samon and steelhead by almost all methods. This is one of the finest articals on the basics of tube flies I have read. With out going into detail on just one fly it explains what a tube fly is and what it is used for. It got my mind working and ideas flowing for new patterns to try . I am looking forward to tying and fishing tube flies this year.

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Looks a little foolish to be that interested of the pike's survival if you read this NYT article!

Impossible to get rid of pike from a lake whatever methods used.

"more than 500 fish and game personnel began a last-ditch, $16 million effort to rid the lake of pike, the most expensive ever undertaken against an 'invasive species' in California"

16 millions dollar to get rid of pike in one lake and you are talking about gill-grips hurting or not???

Hiya Ruza, I'm from Holland too, and also still rather new to flyfishing (approx. 1 year). I hear fishing for asp is just about the right time now in Holland in the large rivers. Going to try to catch one myself this weekend in the Merwede.
About mudd/roach fishing, this can still be very rewarding. Last year i caught one measuring 34,7cm on a small pheasant nimph. But unfortunately most are pretty small. :(
A friend of me does a lot of asp fishing in the IJssel, maybe he can give you some additional information on this. He is also trying to catch carp on the fly....only caught small ones though :roll:

John,
You have to wonder why there isn't some maker of dryers uses this method for tube flies, everything I've seen is for hooked flies. I keep a box of alligator clips on my table for clamping also, they are handy also for holding your work instead of using your fingers which always seem to get in the way while epoxying. Thank you for the kind comment.

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Bumped into you at River Bend on Sunday. Great article. How'd you end up doing?

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Hi there... I am very interested in feather.. did any body know where I can get the info regarding horw the feather grow.. their contents and etc... pls help..

Sounds like a nice mixture of species to target Philly, plenty of choice what to catch. I should also try the salt water for a change, never done that but the seabass, mullet and mackerel should be an exciting catch during summer over here. But first I'll keep on working on my fresh water fishing, i ain't what you can call a very good flyfisherman. Started 2 years ago and still learning allthough the learning curve is slighty rising :wink:
Sarunas, i was wondering what you meant by rudds, a look at wikipedia shows me it's what we call a roach.Indeed perfect for dry fly fishing with a #3 weight on a hot summer evening. Too bad that, allthough the numbers of these fish are still rising in our waters, the size is shrinking. It's very difficult nowdays to find a rudd over 15cm in Holland :( Used to be a lot better if i can trust the stories i've heard.

Hi Morten,
That was a poor example, the short hackle was what I had at the time.
Here are some better -
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As you can see they have quite long hackles, especially the Devonshire Doctor.
They were, and still are, used on the streams of Exmoor and Dartmoor as wet and dry flies.
If you have a look on my site at the earlier 19thc Cutcliffe wet flies, which they derived from,
you will see that large cock hackles were popular then.
There are no illustrations of Cutcliffes' flies, so I had to base my dressing of them on his text.

Here is my site address
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/index.html
Have a look under - Devon & West Country Flies - 19th Century - 20th Century.

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