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Thanks for the emails. According to request I have changed the coding. It didn't seem to work with the very latest of again changed microsoft anti-technology ... so know it should. Let me know if you encounter problems with using that flybox.

..... have I mentioned that I hate Microsoft? :mad:

Submitted by fred on

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I wish Partridge was still made in Redditch.You make enough of Redditch on this site, so make 'em here

Submitted by Rene van Heezik on

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Hello Martin
I am fishing for many years on the Mandal can you tell me about zone 2 I go in the second week of june , I am fishing with the fly , can you tell wich part on zone 2, you think .
Thank you
Rene van Heezik

Submitted by Jerry H. Smith on

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Great article. I make poppers and streamers using foam popper heads. (just turn the popper around and it's a streamer.) My eyes are done the same way only smaller. I use the sharpened sticks like in the article. My iris is in gold and the pupil in black. (I've looked at a lot of fish and noticed the iris is gold on most.) The one thing I have found that works great is 30 min. epoxy to cover the heads. You can do a lot of streamers using the 30 min. epoxy. It makes a nice gloss finish that is real hard and holds up when you hit rocks or sticks.
Im going to make some of the streamers with the big eyes and test them out for bass and trout.
Thanks for a great article.

Dada,

This is what my set up looks like, the popper is 2/0 and the leech is tied in size 1 , - smaller than when I use a leech only, but as you can imagine, this set up is quite difficult to cast. Also due to their moths being bone hard I use stainlessteel hooks only.

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Hi Alan, No fishing for me in these parts this time of year. All these streams are closed to fishing. Even if they weren't, not too far around the bend from that pic, the ice is from shore to shore. There is some year around water on the Beaverkill and some of the other bigger waters, but I'd just as soon stay inside and tie flies than freeze my butt off chasing a couple half frozen trout. If I fish in the winter, it's up north for steelhead (something I don't do much anymore, unfortunately).

Submitted by Candyfish on

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Thank you Joao Nicacio
I am happy that these assemblies have worked to the other side of the Atlantic and in rivers with tropical species.
Greetings

Cándido Pérez

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your compliment regarding my work. Yours is gorgeous too, only 'a wee' bit larger than mine... I think. Well done and keep up the good work.

Ad Swier

Hi Dada,
Sure, I will take some picktures of my set up tonight, and hope to have them on the site tomorrow, will you be fishing rivers or still waters ?

Submitted by Mark on

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Please, someone can give me an internet address of where I can buy "Cracking the Code" DVD.
Thanks

Submitted by Adrian Naughton on

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just come back from lithauania and visited northern central and southern regions, did not have time to fish but was wondering about the stocks of fish i saw in the heavily frozen rivers that traversed the flet expansive and wooded landscape. one amazing carp dish i ate was seved in a fish stock jelly with carots and oniond the carp still remaining portioned on the bone isvicata a wonderful dish. another was pike baked with a whit caper sauce and boiled taties, im sure we ate these foods in times gone. good page

Hi Frederick. We got quite a bit of snow last week, and a fresh topping on Monday when I snapped that pic. It was one of those perfect days for snow pictures - a sticky fluffy snow and no wind to speak of. That creek is about a mile and a half from my house, so I took a walk at lunch on Monday and snapped a few pics along the way. This one is my favorite.

Submitted by Dave P on

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Great fly Martin cant wait to try one. Took me a bit to figure out the tube part but I ended up using a q-tip and a wire casing from an old mouse that stretched to fit snuggly over the q-tip and hook eye. Very cheap to make and you save your hook. Fastest fly I ever made no vise needed or tying thread.

Martin" I saw this article a few months ago, ït was first impulse to think about that, but I think, that channel catfish is different type of food, wels is big to much and what I know this fish has mostly interest in fish and sometimes leeches. And major problem where is wels, there is no crayfish. We ve crayfish just in a few rivers.

to Waterdog: Ill test it!!! When we had a discussion about that we spoke about vibrations and big black flies. They are on surface just few weeks of summers nights and I hope that Ill be there.....Iam expecting 5 up to 10kg, but I saw a lot of fish caught on bait fish over then 25 and some of them were over 50. But Ill be setisfated with "small" babies.....:)
Could you send me a picture of your flies, please?
Thanks a lot, Dada

Submitted by Frederick C Brown on

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Hi Bob; It looks like you are really good with the camera? where is that lovley stream? I dont think the catskills got much snow, or the poconos either, Might be a bad late spring !!FRED

Submitted by Frederick C Brown on

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Neat stuff Bob; I love to fish with the wet fly. I am 72 & fished the same water as Ray B. & Dr. burke, Both of which were from New Jersey , as I am too. The water they fished , is on the south branch of the Raritan , near a town called Long valley, DR. Burke lived in a town called Bound Brook N.J. I really like your style of tying. Great photos FRED

Mike,

Glad you like the fly and had luck with it. It's been a while since I fished it last, but your comment may just get me cranking out a few for this upcoming season's fishing... And yes, Steve's Universal Nymph is a killer fly!

Martin

Submitted by Mike duncan on

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Used a varation of this fly on a local bass lake and was rewarded with a nice 2 # large mouth use tan and shrimp u-v ice dub for the body and got a very flashy fly that i thinks hold geat promise for many warm and cold water species cant wait to try it on trout and stripers.I live in Atlanta Ga. by the way and we have acess to tailwater trout and many warm water species.Thanks for this site I also got my top producing trout nymph (unirversal nymph) from you guys. thanks again.

Submitted by Kasper Mühlbac… on

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Chris,

maybe you should look at the tactics and flies used on Lake Taupo, New Zealand.

Kasper

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