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Me too...

I also would like to express my gratitude to Martin for organising another successful GFF summit.

It was an honour to meet old friends once again, and meet some new friends, all with a kind likeness and passion for fly fishing.
While the next GFF summit seems to far to fathom, the memories of this weekend will linger...

A sincere thank you to Branislav AKA Vanuz for organising the T-shirts. I got to know you a bit better this year.

We seemed to have engraved the GFF summit into our lives and as each year gets better, whispers and plans for the GFF '08 summit have been spoken.

A superb weekend complimented by fine weather, company, food, scenery and fish. It wasn't about the numbers and sizes caught but the stories (however far-fetched), associated with the catch. That's what we'll remember.

Lets keep this forum alive and talk more often.

Thanks to all. We all made it what it is.

Speaking live from Wedellsborg
Ripley

I used to think putt

I used to think putting a sight bob on was just monkey fishing an absolute disgrace, but over the years i have to admit i do use them on still waters where i have taken many fish on the drifting wind which i find aceptable a certain times, my good friend Peter Whittle showed me that. But to go and cast out and just sit their thats monkey fishing lads.

That doesn't look like any of

That doesn't look like any of my fly box, it's too well organized. Those are some fantastic looking flies..

Hiya Ruza, I'm from Holland

[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 friend

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

Hi Kasper i do like

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

I am looking to find

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?

Fly fishing is not s

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

HI i have been tying

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

Question answered...

"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

A possibility

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

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

Hi guys, me and Jan is coming

Hi guys, me and Jan is coming to odense sometimes around 12 @ friday and we are both very eager to fish.

If there is some special maillist for the friday och any contact sheet please let me know!
my email is fredrik_odelberg@hotmail.com
best regards Fredrik

You're nutts. I have

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.

How do you know the

How do you know the fish wasn't kept, and eaten?

I just had the pleas

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.

Just perfect - you g

Just perfect - you guys are the first and last word on wallpapers!

Wooow... Best inform

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 o

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.

After growing up in

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.

Looks a little fooli

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

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

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.

Bumped into you at R

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