Hi Martin
The longest WF5 cast was 36.1 meters = 118 feet at the recently held Danish Fly Casting Championship competition.
With the 10.5 meter 18 grams shooting head (a polular choice among Danish SW fly fishers), the longest cast was 40.2 meters = 132 feet.
Great podcast, thanks!
Good podcast. I have also enjoyed the "cowy" parts :). Once again, I missed the championship and the field-ship :(
Excellently tied trout flies on this page. Very good photographs.
I have an old 'John Veniard' book which has some of these flies in, they are tied with the same materials here, apart from the 'Catskill', Veniard uses Brown Mallard shoulder feather for the wings and tail.. There are other dressings like Adirondack, Cupsuptic, Potomac, Rio Grande King, Utah, Ray Bergman and Montreal Silver in the book too.
Originally called the Forked Tail Nymph and originated by Don & Dick Olson of Bemidji, MN - later was popularized by Doug Prince of Monterrey, CA .
Actually, Doug Prince of California invented the Prince nymph.
Hi Martin, big coincidence. Some month ago, I published a tying article about of "Sunray Shadow". Look: www.riosysenderos.com/baul/sunrayshadow.htm (link is dead)
Excelent fly to Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego.
Regards,
Carlos
Bob,
The new tube fly book is awesome! Very inspiring. I have spent the last few days reading through it and will fire off a review ASAP. A few other books are in the queue before yours, but it will come eventually.
Martin
So now you can see what took us so long, I hope you are as pleased as we are with the final result
Ray,
The cutthroat image was taken with a Nikon D70 digital SLR.
Martin
Martin was the same camera used to take the picture of the searun cutthroat in 2004?
Martin, thanks for the quick response. I was actually wondering about the camera used to take the picture of the searun cutthroat from 2004, sorry thought the comments were picture specific.
The Sunray Shadow is a fantastic fly when fished on a floating line riffle hitched or made with a hole in the side to make it skate across the surface! The salmon of the Northern rivers of the Russian Kola Peninsula love it! that way.Very visual takes.Fish it with a downstream mend to speed it up as well.
Ray,
The image of me kayaking was shot with a Nikon F5 using slide film.
Martin
It's a great pic, but I would crop off the bottom, trying to maintain the thirds rule...
Very nice fly and I believe it will work too. Very interesting the hackling style!
Hi
South Africa is a safe country. There are areas that are more risky, like certain areas in some of the big cities, but the outdoor no problems. Fantastic scenaries, beautiful fishing, friendly people. There are a couple of articles and pictures in the Gallery on GFF about South Africa. Read them and you will book your plane ticket
Hi. I tried to reach Essabo on his site but the email was unabled to be delivered.His diaries are the best on pike fishing to be found any where. Can he be reached by email??
Photos do not do Chris's work justice, in real life they are alive and stunningly beautiful !
Wow, didn't know South Africa is so beautiful!
Is it safe (sorry for asking but that's what I just keep asking myself) in SA to be in the outdoors?
I never heard about "wet flies" before, I just played with google ;), but wow! good photos about beautiful flies... I really enjoyed watching these artistic beauties. grats & thanks!
Martin, we fished the Tønjum beat of Laerdal last summer and Mark Brooks (Ray Brooks son) showed us around and advised us about which flies to use and how to fish them. Needless to say Mark more or less only fishes the Sunray but slightly different to his fathers original (published?) pattern namely blue/black and not white/black. Also the Sunray's he uses on Laerdal are enormous - at a guess I would say 20-25cm long!! Mark ties them on plastic tubes and fishes them on a sink-tip line. Last season he took one 17.4Kg salmon in Tønjum and a monster of 19Kg higher up on the last day of the season - both on a ....
... blue Sunray.
Stuart
Super flies! I live in a resort in Florida where the streets are named for trout & salmon flies. iI would like to find someone who would tye SIX of the patterns for me. CATSKILL,GRAY HACKLE, NIGHT OWL, PARSON TOM, PINK LADY, WOODRUFF.
I need a dozen of each to maKe a frame to give as gifts, If you know of someone please advise. THANKS BOB
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