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Submitted by PatL on

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If you are looking for the closed cell foam go to walmart They are 33 cents a sheet

Submitted by Mr Mcguinnis on

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I fished this fly in Russia last week and caught a mail order bride on my backcast. Should have used a lighter tippet and stronger vodka though.

Peter,

you may use Fly Hair. I am not sure, but I think the inly difference is that Fly Hair II also have some angel hair in it.

EP fibres is also a suitable material. Try mixing some different dark or light colors so you get a "camouflaged" look.

Kasper

Submitted by 1737246413 on

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i got stung by a weever at porthtowan beech and it really hurt. i didnt no what to do because there was no lifguards around. i had to go to the public toilets and wash my foot in the sink. my whole foot swelled up but i just left it a few day and i got better.

Submitted by SMUKKE... on

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VERY GOOD WORK...!! AND REALITY PICTURES..!! CONGRATULATIONS...FROM ME..:)) P.S. I WAS YOUR FAN...:)))

Submitted by Christoph Cenker on

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Jo napot vilmos !

I would very much like to fish the rapfen. Could You give any hints how to start ? I live only 45 km from the hungarian border.

Thanks a lot
Christoph

I have to say that is the most amazing fish art work I have ever seen.
My wife and I are avid art fans from Goya, Hockney, Frello, and Dali. Although they have contributed nothing in the way of fish art, I am taken back by Derek D Youngs work. Just my cup of tea.
Original, fresh and very colourful.
All his work is breath-taking.
What a discovery Martin...Great article.
Ripley

>>>>....there is precious little we can do, except perhaps to push the authorities to allow the contruction of such plants only after a careful study and with systems that would allow for a constant and more natural flow of the waters.<<<<

That doesn't sound like precious little. That sounds like we can do quite a lot. And how do you push authorities around. In this country it is done with lobbyists and the way to a lobbyist's heart is with money or the promise of money. How many on GFF communicate with their govenors, presidents, kings and queens, mayors and senators? Email, telephone and letter writing campaigns in this country have done much in the favor of conservation. We are allowed to change our governments methods by voting for people that represent our views. One of the problems there is that it takes a lot of time. Sometimes the amount of time it takes is enough time for the damage to be done. Another problem is that sometimes the person that we vote for loses the election. It is a long, tough battle. After the desire has been excited to do the right thing and the passion is there, money is by far the most important element of a conservationists fight. Many of our biggest conservation societies have learned that when you fight big corporations with unlimited funds you must make yourself into a corporation, too.

Global warming is definately and issue. My research has concluded that the temperatures are rising and my figures were compared with other results from all over Denmark - Almost identical.
Trees give a firm indication of the weather from years past in their growth rings when felled. Documenting the weather in tree growth from as early as the 1900's is like reading a book.

No doubt that this domino effect will spread throughout the globe not over months but certainly 10's / 100's of years.
Man doesn't help with the construction of dams and removing of waterside vegetation and ill-planned farming practices.

I had a letter from a grayling Society friend in Austria and he's says that trout are on the decline in parts of the southern region. Man has played an important part there but pollution has started also to creep in from neighbouring countries and through acid rain.

The plot thickens.

Ripley

Hi Ripley

Thank you for opening this interesting discussion and it would be great if such initiatives were taken in other countries too. We have the same problem here in Italy where grayling and also Marble trout are in serious danger due to the construction of HE plants etc. Unfortunately as long as we are so dependent on petrolium as a major source of energy and with global warming being such a serius threat the the plant's environment, there is precious little we can do, except perhaps to push the authorities to allow the contruction of such plants only after a careful study and with systems that would allow for a constant and more natural flow of the waters.

PS please inform me on how to attach photos.

Thanks

Submitted by Randon B. Johlph on

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Raw fish, raw weather and raw conditions. Dude, you get a raw 5!

Submitted by HaLster on

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This is truly a magic fly. I tie it in different color schemes but always unwiegthed as I use it in the sea, fishing sea trout (european sea trout that is) with very slow retrieves in the winter.
I've caught 8 pounds sea trouts on this fly tied: black deer, black hackle and black chenille and hot orange tail with silver crystal, 2X the body lenght. A super fly!

I always err on the side of conservation. Here in the States there is a brutal discrepency in the statistics between the conservationist/industrialist sides. Statistics are often completely unusable, in my opinion. And one can easily gather statistics favoring their sides agenda. One thing you can be certain of is that there is great pressure on fish species all over the world. Overfishing, waterway re-development and pollution are just three of the more obvious ones.

But some fly fishermen are a threat to the fish populations as well. For example, I recently went up to one of Virginia's tiny jewels, the Rapidan River, and observed a pair of Yuppie fly fishermen, (if you will pardon the expression 'fishermen' please) that were in the act of what they percieved to be fishing. A nice long pool below a small plunging waterfall in this beautiful little freestone stream was entered by one of these men in chest high waders. He walked onto the gravel bed from the foot of the pool until he was up to his waist, within ten feet of the falls, and began thrashing the surface of the pool with a Mickey Finn of huge proportions. It was time for me to be a ruffian.
"Do you know what you are doing?"
"What ?" he answered, but not as in what am I doing, but as in what did you say.
"For one thing you are standing exactly where you should be fishing. Did you know that?"
I did not let him answer.
"And secondly you are killing unborn Brook Trout , probably by the hundreds if not thousands, every time you shuffle your feet. You are destroying the eggs."
"Are you a warden?"
"I am if I want to be," I answered, "and right now I want to be. Why don't you get out of the pool and fish from boulders and the bank for a while."
He complied as his friend stood mutely by following our conversation with quick snaps of his head.
"I'm not trying to be a p++ck. I just care a lot for these trout and must intervene sometimes on their behalf. You understand?"
He did.
I said, "Knock about ten pounds off of your tippet size and use something in a size ten hook that sinks. A nymph, perhaps. That way you might catch something. I don't think that the method that you have chosen is going to be productive today."
I rode off into the sunset. I should have broken their fly rods and told them to watch football for the rest of their lives. But believe it or not, I know that the future of fishing is in their hands. From their interest and thousands of others like them lies the basic fule that will provide for the safe future of these fish. Money. It is probably the most important thing for the conservation of anything natural in this world. Without ti, we lose.

Thanks for the kind support.
I spend most of my time surrounded by natural beauty and I like to think that most of us can notice this and comment on colours, textures, shadows and light through different eyes.
My job introduces me to many miracles of life and one fact remains that man can never re-create, mould or copy nature no matter how hard we try. Not even dead leaves which are like a finger print.
These leaves fell from a tree that was planted the same year as the Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage.
Just a fact.

Submitted by Randon B. Johlph on

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What is that, stoneflies! Closer, go closer dude, you've got a Canon EOS (w/ excellent macro)
Otherwise nice colors and I like the sharp foreground combined with blured background. 3

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