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My wife and I are vi

My wife and I are visitng Belize in November for 3 weeks. She likes to fish but NOT from boats - only the shore!! is this possible on an 'ad hoc' basis along the coastline of Belize even is not staying in the area.?

Thanks for your help.

John Cartwright (UK)

The Cracker fly is o

The Cracker fly is one that I grew up fishing in the Withlacoochee River and the Florida Gulf Coast in the Tampa Bay area. It is a very good Redfish fly that many of the old guys wading the bay would use when I was a child. I was somewhat offended that the term Cracker was represented as describing the poor whites of Florida. My family has lived in Florida for many generations. Crackers were so named because they were cattle men who cracked their whips as they drove cattle. Tom Williams, Lolamy Fly & Tackle Co.

Hi, Dada,

Hi, Dada,

last year I was in Hurgada for 7 days rest. Hoever I took my flyrod and had couple of nice hours in early morning. trust me i dont know all names of fishes I got there but it was plenty. Most often i got garfish hooked. I fished from the cost on a shalow waters near resort.

rgds

Roolis

To Mike...Don't use

To Mike...Don't use lead split shot. Use #2 buckshot.

The Fly on bottles m

The Fly on bottles makes a cracking wallpaper.Many thanks.

Yes some great infor

Yes some great information and in good English. I stay in Denmark every year for six months arriving at the beginning of May. For the other 6 months I live in New Zealand where there are no Garfish except tiny cousins called PIPER, but plenty of other exciting species to catch. We net these. What I am interested in other ways of catching Garfish. For instance do they take the "Softbait" optiions like "Gulp". Do they take fish bait situations. I heard from the Tackle Shop assistance that they can be targeted during the summer in deeper water situations. Can someone comment on these. For the present moment I am using a very light spinning rod and reel and the typical danish spinner without the hook and an ORANGE silk bundle. I find this excellent in a weedy situation.Thanks for the webpage and the right to ask questions..

Joe (aka Chevy) is a

Joe (aka Chevy) is a better picture taker than fly fisher. Give him a 9

Grant,

Grant,

That is one nice fish - cell phone picture or not! Congratulations.

Martin

Thanks for the prime

Thanks for the primer
I've tried it using light colored rosin and bees wax I bought long ago to make a gun stock wax I once worked on.
I have 3 tubes of wonder wax I won't use for normal every day use. And have been tying production for a number of years. I share the opinion of many tyers that wonder wax is the finest dubbing wax ever used with betts and loon coming second but still nothing like it
The first wax I had made turned out a little hard. I reheated it and added more rosin and a bit more olive oil. Very nice I like it I feel excited that I can recreate wonder wax if I use darker rosin.
Time will tell. But I like what I'v made now better than any store bought product.
Many tyers are still longing for wonder wax to come back.
I often wondered why someone never studied and recreated the recipe.
I guess it's one of those things where it's far easier to buy a tube of something and get to tying.

Very nice article...

Very nice article....I'd love to see more.
Nice...Easy.....BIG!!

I love it

You wont go broke tying those

You wont go broke tying those flies. I am a minimalist tyer (sometimes) and have tied several flies like yours. And that Starling Hackle is one of the best Brook Trout flies on small streams that I have ever used. It is also the best Bluegill fly I have ever used.

Nice site.

very nice, but my wi

very nice, but my wife is going to kill me for cutting up her brush lol

Now you're talking l

Now you're talking like a bass fisherman. We use large flies so we're not catching 5-inch panfish all day long.

Dick,

it is hard

Dick,

it is hard to say whether the green coloured trout are kelts or chromers. Maybe you could send a photo?

In September the kelts should have gained what they lost during the spawning.

Kasper

Hi Candido,

I cat

Hi Candido,

I catched this one with a dry fly in the surface. It is a very succesfull fly in the Netherlands for flyfishing on carp called the white eggfly. In the reports section of my website (www.flyfishingandmore.com) you can find a photo of this fly.

Regards, Edwin

Great job with this

Great job with this one. I am sure it will help anyone who is learning how to fly fish for the first time or those that haven't picked up their fly gear in decades.

Hi! I was feeling th

Hi! I was feeling the same way for a long time, but I think I found the one. I got one of the new Columbia wading jackets for $100 USD from Cabelas. The only thing missing is that there are no hand pockets (but they are not a big issue for me). I have been in some serious downpours and heavy nor'Easters on the North East Coast of the US and it is waterproof so far - and it has been a year of heavy use! the hood even has a brim to cover your cap brim, too! No velcro on the cuffs - just a plain tapered neoprene cuff and a neoprene waistband with 2 tabs out of the way to snag a line and two huge chest pockets. A great jacket so far.

Beautiful carp, as y

Beautiful carp, as you deceived her, with what fly? With dry in surface or with nymph under the same one. He/she receives a cordial greeting. Candyfish (Extremadura - Spain). Cándido Pérez Márquez

You got some seatrout, and

You got some seatrout, and had a good trip, that`s what counts! :D Well done on adjusting to the warm weather we`ve been having here!

Cheers,
Peter

back from Ebeltoft

Hi Peter,

as promissed some feedback of the journey, the fishery was a bit disapointing. We have catched some seatrout but it was extreme hard to catch them. The nice weather of the last month makes the water temerature rise up to 12/13 degrees and from what i have heared it should be around 8 degrees. We have tryed every hour of the day, so we went at night and early sunrises ect.

We did catched a lot of garfish (hornfisk), the seatrout i have catched were all on a ... magnus 8). Never the less, i will be back in september / october and try my luck this summer in Norway.

regards,

Bjorn

Thanks Darryl!
For

Thanks Darryl!
For years I have fished a #19-21 black parachute w. yellow wing a no tail for midges, but this is about 18537 times easier and quicker to tie!
Will keep you informed :-)

Lars

It is a type of fly used on

It is a type of fly used on the River Tummel in the 19th and early 20th century.
The idea was to get fly down quickly by in effect using the bare hook as an aid to quick surface penetration and sinking. It is probably the sparsest type of fly ever used, even more than the Clyde style. There is not much info on them, except for W. H. Lawrie in "Scottish Trout Flies" and one picture in Skues "Way of a Trout with a Fly" of regional variations of the Blue Dun and (quote)' I have known Scottish burn fishers to fill bumping creels with just such simple patterns busked before setting out'(unquote). But Lawrie and Skues is quite a good recommendation. I am in the process of tying more of the flies for the article in my web-site.
I have tied a Greenwell and maybe a Blae (Blue) Dun and a couple of others.
They did not have the range of hooks we have now-a-days nor the aids to sinking flies we have. I have published most of Lawrie's comments from his book, still very appropriate today.

T,

T,

Are you talking about the Eur-Flyfish mailing list?

[url]http://www.acc.umu.se/~widmark/lweurfly.html[/url]

Martin

Donald,

Donald,

That is one strange contraption!

What does it imitate - if anything?
How do you fish it?

Martin