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That is the skinnyest Esox of any kind I have ever seen. Was the fish caught in April? Boy does he look shagged out.

Submitted by Kelly Knutson on

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do you conect the tippet to the leader and can you recomend a guide for me in ohio for the Clear Fork river

Martin, I know this status from my own experience. I find myself in similar condition in our living room in front of the TV, playing with a fly reel or sitting in our home-office playing around with my favourite fly rods or a new blank... (currently a two hander). There is just one relief: Go fishing even if conditions might be not perfect, this is what I do even if I have to choose a by far not perfect place due to wind conditions. Rgds, Ole

Submitted by Kasper Mühlbac… on

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Clode,

I also started tying flies years before I got my first rod. Just keep going.

Kasper

:D 11 and casting all day... Iam strong guy :lol: ..... But my 9 has to enough....What materials you are using for poppers? Because I tried to make them from balsa wood, but thats not what I want.And poppers bodies what I get here is to small...Ill try foam or somethink like that... :cry: .What you mean?

Submitted by clode v on

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Hi Kasper,
New to this and had a ball playing with eyes today. Out of desperation pulled mono off old fishing pole and used clear nail polish just so that i could make one of the shimps with real eyes. Thanks, still trying to learn terms and hooks types love the art of tying dont even have a rod yet:)

Submitted by Bruce Rainbird on

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What part of the Vaal were u fishing when this was taken?Please let me know

Submitted by Bruce Rainbird on

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It's just a pity the Vall river system isnt as clean as the Zambezi river.

Submitted by bertus on

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czech nymph, hydrorsychidae larv, shrimpbrassie pheasant tail nymphs? I will appreciate it if you could please give me info on purchasins the above mentioned flies

[quote:f0e787442b]My biggest worry is that when I die, my wife will sell my fly rods for what I said I paid for them.[/quote:f0e787442b]

God, is that funny.

Submitted by John on

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If you really want to do this on the cheap... I just made one of these from a 9 volt battery, a hunk of old guitar string and duct tape. Be sure to cover one terminal when not in use!

Submitted by John Pasternak on

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Great Site. Nice to see talk about things other than dry flies

[quote:8377c47a52="ASO"]Hey Burkala,

I hope to go to Turkey, Antalya in the middle of October this year. Is it not legal to fish trout in the period after October 1? And if it's legal, do you know where it's good to fish in the area?

Thanks, and kind regards

Asger
asgero@gmail.com
Denmark[/quote:8377c47a52]

Dear Asger,

Unfortunately the trout season in Turkey ends after 1 of October. I'd advise you to arrange your vacation to an earlier date because there are very nice locations where you can fish trout in Antalya. By the way, foreigners in Turkey need to attain a permit to fish in Turkey. Altough there are'nt much strict control, its appropriate to attain one may you face a official person. As for the locations, a can advise you the upper reaches of Dim and Manavgat streams. They are all turqouise streams where you can find lots of rainbow trouts.( all fugutives of fish farms ) But ýf you want to fish natural browns, you need to contact the locals or fishing companys, or I may be of help if I can arrange some spare time. You can contact me in person and I'll do my best when the time comes

Regards

Burak
bkalac@hotmail.com

Submitted by Chuck Wolff on

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I've had a tool I got from a doc for a number of years...The batteries died and I used a pipe cutter, making a cut about l to l 1/2 inces from the top, carefully separated the two pieces, took out the two dead batteries and inserted some new ones, put it back together using friction tape to seal the cut and "olay" its good for another round...

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Nice article...Over the years I went the painted eye route and you have to have steady hands or its fouled up... I know that Goop is pretty good but I feel I have an easier and quite a bit faster way of doing this...It works on thread, hair, paint, balsa, bar bell eyes, you name it and it sticks...It dries clear, does not stick your fingers together as super glue does and costs about $3.00 to $4.00 a bottle (can't remember what I paid for it as I had it a number years)...The product is called Jewel Glue Mfg by Delta Technical Coatings Inc,, Whittier Ca 90601 and was developed for gluing glass beads etc onto fabric ...I use doll eye style eyes that you can purchase in most hobby stores at reasonable prices..(Our area it is "Hobby Lobby")...You put a small drop on, put the eye on (I have a offset tweezers that you squeeze to open and it closes when you let go) with the tweezer and drop it and use a tooth pick to push it down...If you did it right, a small ridge of glue will come up and will help contain it where you put it...Let it sit for 24 hrs...To really make it stick you can coat the eye with Locktite Quick Tite (Brush Style) Super Glue...Try it...I hope it works for you as well as it did for me...

Submitted by Vincent Derks … on

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Great DVD's! I've seen them all and they are all three one of the best casting DVD's I've seen! Henrik doesn't promote Scierra in any way, he only wears the scierra blackwater waders and a scierra wading vest and in henrik's introduction it is mentioned that Henrik is a rod, reel and line designer for Scierra. Sometimes you get a glimp of his rod and you can see a scierra logo on the rod/reel. In my opinion that's pretty impressive to produce a dvd for Scierra without any direct promotion for the brand. So the accusations that there's too much Scierra on the dvd are nonsens.

TL

Submitted by Chris on

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Hi,

So where can one get a copy of Ad Swier's book? I looked on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk and couldn't find it. Googling it didn't turn up much either.

Best regards,
Chris.

Submitted by Jaydee on

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i like to fly fish warm waters from around october to mid april in the susquehanna river its the best i usually catch a lot of bass large and small mouth walleye and a couple of pike.Did you guys ever fish the susquehanna?

Hey Burkala,

I hope to go to Turkey, Antalya in the middle of October this year. Is it not legal to fish trout in the period after October 1? And if it's legal, do you know where it's good to fish in the area?

Thanks, and kind regards

Asger
asgero@gmail.com
Denmark

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