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Submitted by Jose A. Mendio… on

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Hello:
My name is Jose Antonio,I am a spanish collector, and fisherman.
It has surprised me, pleasurably, to find this site. I want to ask: do the series pointed out here only exist? Where can I find more information it has more than enough flies?
Dry and drowned flies.
Jose Antonio

Submitted by Grant Henderson on

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I haven't seen the weta fly before - sounds like an imitation of a large terrestrial insect we have here. A fly the same size as the real thing would be big (3 - 4 inches) and hard to cast in a wind. Big trout would eat them. Maybe ask at local angling clubs.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: please note NZ now has the highly invasive weed "didymo" in 23 South Island rivers. North Island so far is without it. One drop of water is all it takes to spread it. It is vital that any visitors clean and dry all tackle and boots before going from one river to another, or use different tackle for each watershed fished.

Fish & Game NZ website has details of how to clean gear, and horrific photos of what happens if you don't.

Tourist anglers should also clean their tackle rigorously before leaving NZ, to avoid risk of taking the weed back to their own countries. Tell your friends about this issue; if you want to help us keep the good fishing, the big message is "Check; clean and dry".

Submitted by Paul Gigliotti on

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Slinkies are the answer to great lakes steelheading and are used on a running line,and are not cast like a reguler fly line.For those of you who doubt,,try it out.

I was looking for good wire, when I tried ultra light spin fishing. In thi time I was very satisfied with wolfram wire made by I think Jaxon, its poland company. This I am using still, but another chance is Tyger wire, this I used in Costa Rica and its perfect!!!

www.tygerleader.com

And here is small crocodile picture, taken by czech guy on our dam. small is about 20 inches.

Submitted by Bojan on

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The Harvest website is not working. Try to contact mrs Daisy from harvest tackle directlly at harvest.tackle@msa.hinet.net. She is very kind and agent for middle Europe is rudi-heger@t-online.de . I have Traveler 9' 5wt and it is amazing rod. Very light and very powerfull, and it became my favourite rod in 5wt( I have Winston BIIx and TNT Paradigm in same lenght) .
Regards form Serbia!

This is a Blue Bead Buzzer I tied (?) recently.
[img:6f3f570fe8]http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wp1b15859c_1b.jpg[/i…]
The bead buzzers can be useful fished on the point with a team of buzzers on stillwaters.
A large Blue buzzer
[img:6f3f570fe8]http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_wp_generated/wp3d3ddb8c_1b.jpg[/i…]

There are other bead buzzers on
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page55.html

Submitted by Adam D. Miller… on

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Is there a photo for this pattern? I have a hard time visualizing the finished product from the material description.

Submitted by Bob Petti 1737246418 on

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All these cased caddis has the classic square cross section like a Grannom, but I didn't pluck any of the larvae out of their houses to check body colors. They were active buggers, too, as when I picked up a rock, they'd wriggle all about.

Submitted by Doug Gosling on

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Good shot! But it makes me wonder about my own patterns now. The heads seem to be quite light in contrast to their darker bodies. Is this true or is it simply that the photo has distorted the true colors. Also their shape is definitely more torpedo-like than my ties.

Thnx. Doug

Hi Martin, and all others interested in rodbuilding.

Check out the rods from J.D. Wagner:
[url]http://www.wagnerrods.com/limited.html[/url]

The quality of the work layn down in these rods is simply astonishing and truly something to strive for in building rods. I particularly like the rods where the continued cane make up the handle, and the once with ebony inlay in front of the handle.

-Jari

Hi Silja.

I know that hsimport.se carries at least the rods and blanks from harvest

-Jari

Silja,

The Internet service from Taiwan seems to be very flimsy. Sometimes the page works, sometimes it doesn't. Try again at a later time.

Martin

Submitted by domantas on

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Good job. Any ideas how to make a right angle on a leader where indicator conected? (90* angle let fly sink more faster)

[quote:dea49ac9cc="rybolov"][quote:dea49ac9cc="Martin Joergensen"]UK blanks are available from about 60-70 £ and kits from about 100 £.[/quote:dea49ac9cc]
That's about $200 in 'merican. Share your sources, please. :wink:[/quote:dea49ac9cc]

I have been searching the web and my best bet for an inexpensive kit is British [url=http://www.norman-agutters.com/index.htm]Norman-Agutters[/url]. They have blanks from 65£ and kits with cork, rings, ferrules and everything from about 110£. That seems like a price range where I can afford to experiment with cane rod building.

Martin

[quote:cb6fec1d00="Martin Joergensen"]UK blanks are available from about 60-70 £ and kits from about 100 £.[/quote:cb6fec1d00]

That's about $200 in 'merican. Share your sources, please. :wink:

Submitted by Leigh Kelly on

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I want to tie or buy the Weta fly i am fishing the Mohaka river in mid febaury2007
North Island can you help me please.

Hi Martin,
I've never seen a cane rod build from a kit, but there is a guy here in Bremen, (Rolf Baginski), who has offered weekend courses in the past, to build a cane rod from spliting the bambo, to putting epoxy on the wraps. A friend took part in the course last year, and although he had no experience in rod building, build a very nice, useable rod over the weekend.
Here is his homepage if you are interested: http://www.baginski-fly-rods.com/index.html

Take care
Paul

Submitted by John Buckley on

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In my youth, I've tied and fished many of these "streamers" as wet flies. Love the addition of these patterns with photographs to the fly fishing body of knowledge. You should be proud of you accomplishment!

Submitted by Adam D. Miller… on

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Yah dude, the Farmington rules. It's where I learned to fish.

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