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Hi there... I am ver

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

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,

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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[img:d0fdb3af31]http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpaaa09ff6_1b.jpg[/i…]

[img:d0fdb3af31]http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wpde3ab27e_1b.jpg[/i…]

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.

Interesting artical.

Interesting artical. Built my rotary dryer from a rotisserie motor and three foot length of steel rod. Epoxy small alligator clips to a couple of dozen spring cloths pins and you have a dryer that changes the angle of the fly quickly (preventing sags) and you can easily remove or add flies. The three foot rod allows you to sort by cure time.

Very good :)

Very good :)

Hi,

Hi,

I had and old Danish book once, by a guy called Poul Friss. It had a lot of spider patterns as Dry flies in it, all tied with a hackle twice as long as the shank and no tail?

The picture of "your" half stone is with a short hackle, is that particular to that pattern, or was it the style of all spider dries??

Chers

Morten, as you have no doubt

Morten, as you have no doubt noticed, I am rather keen on them myself.
One small point, The West Country Wets are, strictly speaking, South Country Wets.
They are not very well known outside the West Country, that is the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset etc. There is rather a limited literature about them.
Although quite a few of the 20th c. patterns are used as dry flies in many parts of the UK.
The Half Stone and its variations is probably the best known. In the mid 20th c. upright winged dry flies became less popular and 'spider' cock hackles were more used in the UK and so quite a few of the West Country Wets were used as dries.
For anyone else who is interested, here is a picture of a Half Stone, which I tied on a modern size 14 dry fly hook.
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p.s I liked your sea trout fly, it has affinities with W. H. Lawries 'All-fur Flies', a book I can highly recommend.

Davenport Shuttle...

I agree with Martin.
Please keep the transport down to a minimum as we are driving and using the facilities at the Wedellsborg Royal Estate.
There is an abundance of deer and other wild animals so driving is to be kept to an absolute minimum. No exceptions, and no empty seats in any cars.
The estate is owned by the Count Bendt Wedell and is supervised by the game-keeper and forest rangers who are aware of our invasion.
We will drive through as a group and leave as a group.

1 place in my car is booked and that leaves 3 seats.
I live on Fyn (Wedellsborg), so shuttling is: to-and-from the hostel in Odense.
First come first serve.

Ripley

My danish fly stroke again

My danish fly stroke again yesterday,( in f..... stormy weather), ca 500 m from where my local river runs into the sea. Not really sure if this fish is spawner, or if it was just sneaking around the river opening. Anyway I relased it, and hope that this fish now have the knowlege to avoid attacks from the many spin fishermen upstream.

Chers

Morten.

NB. Not really Fishporn what I am presenting here, but I was quite stressed by operating the catch and my my NIkon D70 at the same time ;)

brook X brown (tiger

brook X brown (tiger trout)

I have fished alanti

I have fished alantic salmon for 35 years & use 1/2 hitch all the time,from my experince I tie the 1/2 hitch behind the head & under the throut & add another 1/2 hitch behind the first because playing big fish the first hitch has on rare occassion pop off with a lost off a trophy fish.

I dont think so, It takes me

I dont think so, It takes me ca 30 min to do one leader, and it last for years of fishing.

For the last one I made, I used normal sandpaper to shape the taper, then finer sandpaper until about 125 grain size(maybe adding some water), until the surface felt nice and smoth.

The turning point has allways been the blood knot adding the tippet to the leader, but with a little practice, and not to many turns, you can get a strong knot, normally I add 0.30 and down dependent on the task.

NB. Sorry Martin, I have coincidentally posted my first answer as a new tread, can be deleted

I have two set of At

I have two set of Atlantic Salmon flies.. Both are autograph. One is by Ted Williams the baseball guy and one by Lee Wolff. Are they worth anything?

Morten,

Morten,

If I understand this right this leader is sanded down to its proper taper, isn't it? I remember Milton mentioning these, but never really took that much notice... Isn't it a lot of work?

I had (still have) a friend who fished a lot in the Justland streams for sea trout, and I also remember him preparing these leaders. He later moved to Australia, and I haven't seen or heard them mentioned since.

Martin

Sarunas,

Sarunas,

Those are good looking flies. I like the order and discipline in that box! Very unlike my own fly-boxes...

Martin

Morten,

Morten,

A very good looking fly! Sometimes frugality can be a help...

Martin

Fine tying skills (young eyes

Fine tying skills (young eyes ;)), When i was 14 I allways carried tree boxes full of flies around, one with nymphs, one with dries, one with traditionall wets, streamers, hairwings, montanas, etc.

Today I hardly carries tree different fly patterns with me ;)

Chers

Morten.

Love those north country

Love those north country spiders, they even fish great in slow motion danish streams. Give me some north country spiders, and I will never starve ;).

In my opinion the north country spiders never got the popularity world wide they deserved.

Chers

Morten.

Laying a beautiful f

Laying a beautiful fish such as that on the dry ground? Very bad form, man, very bad.

Re: #5

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Many put down Fenwick but I havenever had any problems with them.
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Could you elaborate a bit on this? I have heard the same thing once a while ago, but never really got deeper into it.

[b:23229aefb9]@Jonathan:[/b:23229aefb9]

You have probably made your purchase(s). Here's a my quick input, however. First a bit on the leader issue.
For a couple of years now I have used fluorocarbon leaders, which have an ability to sink as the leader is a bit heavier than the water itself. However, it is as easy to cast with as a regular leader. In this way you get the best from the regular leaders and poly leaders. I have been using these: http://www.riverge.de/ but I know that for instance Loop also make them.

Poly leaders fish excellent, but are too heavy to cast with in my opinion.

By the way. I also use a Loop CWL (the black one). It's working flawlessly - and has been for more than two years now. The handle has corroded, however - even though I have put it in water after most trips.

Nice rodhandle, what

Nice rodhandle, what's it made off? Woo,d and if so what kind?

Nice photo Ripley, s

Nice photo Ripley, seems that we have the same ambition, Although i prefer less plastic and more natural things. Hope we can exchange some ideas during the GFF meeting in 2 weeks, maybe you can give some hints as where to fish after the meeting, cheers
Brian

Hi, I'm driving from

Hi, I'm driving from Dianalund (vestern part of sealand) friday morning in order to do some fishing on the way to Odense. I have place for one more, so send me a mail or write in here if you want the seat 8)
Regards Jesper

Hello from Germany,

Hello from Germany,

i use this Nymph here in some streams in the Black Forrest, and it rocks the Brown Trouts are realy wild for this nymph!

TL Daniel