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And with the water temp at a

And with the water temp at a brisk 42 F and the air temp 50, I just had to go back today and try for something on the bottom. Although it is only a two acre pond there have been eight pound Largemouth Bass taken there. I brought alomg a few tiny crawfish imitations that I often take big Bluegills with and sometimes a small bass. In the cold water you simply crawl them along. I picked up three bass, the bigger one is hopefully attached to this post. It was fun on a 6X leader on that tiny rod.

Let me answer my question for

[quote:d8002b543f="Esox"]Let me answer my question for you. They are fine rods. I have been catching big Bluegills with mine all afternoon and it casts quite well. [/quote:d8002b543f]

Good to hear. Nobody else had obviously tried these rods. Personally I like the short and light rods, but unfortunately I have no bluegills to go try such a rod on. Wish I had, but the access to convenient small water/small fish is not good where I live.

Martin

Re: pictures

[quote:f64d876f96="Hanzie"]Let's see if it works[/quote:f64d876f96]

Excellent! And a good looking pattern too! Thanks.

Martin

Nice pattern Hans,and awesome

Nice pattern Hans,and awesome pictures in Your page :shock:
I like it :!: :)
Please post Your patterns in future :roll:

Oh man, this is good

Oh man, this is good. Dude you get 5 for composition and quality.

Excellent Picture -

Excellent Picture - very well done!

a fine brownie! and

a fine brownie! and aswell a fine pic. well done

Let me answer my question for

Let me answer my question for you. They are fine rods. I have been catching big Bluegills with mine all afternoon and it casts quite well. Has a nice feel to it and when I get the proper line on there I am sure that it will feel even better. The lightest I had was a four. It is going to be worthy of the freestone streams of the mid-Atlantic hills.

pictures

Ok Martin,
no problem.
I'll give it a try.
Let's see if it works

Pictures

Hans,

Could I suggest that you added pictures of your patterns when you post them here? Pure links to your own site don't really add much value.. no offense meant. I really enjoy your site, but we usually prefer content rather than links - as we have often said.

Martin

hoppy,

hoppy,

I´ve tried to re-create the colour too, and this is the closest I`ve come. It`s "homeblended dubbing". It turns "smokey/transparent" when wet, with the brown and orange bits showing. Tie an "aura-shrimp", or similar "dubbing-on-a-hook-pattern" with this, and add a shellback and eyes, instead of risking to glue yourself to the table :wink: Pm me if you want some to try.

When dry,

[img:e50200f9c4]http://pic19.picturetrail.com/VOL1087/4098426/13559181/217218171.jpg[/i…]

When wet,

[img:e50200f9c4]http://pic19.picturetrail.com/VOL1087/4098426/13559181/217217740.jpg[/i…]

Cheers,
Peter

RD, i agree totally ugly -

RD, i agree totally ugly - but the body is a close as i have come to the real creature featured in the on the Honey Shrimp page.

It needs some tweaking, i like the rubber legs idea, i will also be shortening the eyes.

Thanks for the feedback guys, we might not catch fish in Fyn, but i'll have a big box of flies!!

Hoppy

Hi Hoppy,

Hi Hoppy,

maybe you try a clear mono thread for the body and some rubber legs instead of the mono legs.
If you like give the body a very little bit of glitter in pearl, thats what my shrimps often have.

But i think your flies will work well!

Shrimp

God that's an ugly pattern...
But it will work.

RD

Hi Allan.
I don't t

Hi Allan.
I don't think so, the photo was taken in very low light conditions.
But there is a story about the stripes on the head, the fish pulled shootinghead,runningline and about 10 meters of backing off the reel, in one long rush, out there the fish, began to roll in the surface, and after a short while it became quiet.
Later i saw that the fish had tied itself around the gills with my leader, so that it couldn't breathe, i could now bring the nice sea trout to photo session, without further problems.

Hi vytautas,

Many

Hi vytautas,

Many thanks for the kind words.
I think that's just a typographical error. I'll get it corrected.

Ripley

Great article Ripley

Great article Ripley!!! Thanks dude :)

P.S. One correction - the photo "Former KGB agent" - it is the names of Lithuanian partisans that fought against the Soviet regime and KGB

vytautas
www.flyfishing.lt

Good picture.
Is it

Good picture.
Is it the camera lens you can see on the forehead of the fish?
regards Allan

It isn't the names o

It isn't the names of KGB agents... Its names of peoples killed by KGB...

I bet these rainbows

I bet these rainbows were a thrill to catch. Nontehless you might want to keep future pics of this quality at your computer only. Sorry, yout 0.

While fly fishing a

While fly fishing a tail water, I noticed the trout were hitting my strike indicator more then my fly. So I decide to fix that problem and took a dry fly hook and used orange rabbit fur for the thorax and orange cdc for the loop wing. My next discovery was don't use a lite leader, they hit so hard it was amazing. This happened in spring 1994

Chris,could you send

Chris,could you send me a list of streamer tying books with author,as I have found out that I was a closet STREAMER JUNKIE. Ed

Hi...

Actually -

Hi...

Actually - Yes, this is a common sight in the countryside but a small part of how some live. There are worse but you have to accept that this is there way of life and it's what they are adapted too.
I hope and suppose that in time, funds will slowly reach the countryside and homes like this, so people will live without class difference.
Cities are very advanced and just like any other Euro-metropolis.

Ripley

does people live the

does people live there ??