In clear water like that you may have to use a bit more stealth. I have fished many small rivers and the fish often get a look at you before you get a look at them. A bit of cloudiness in the water makes it a bit easier. I fished some Brook Trout streams yesterday that got their first rain in about two months. They were much easier to fish than they have been. Overcast skies, a bit of turbidity in the water and shadows make you more invisible.
Yea it works fairly well, especially if the water is a little off color. my experiments in clear water havent gone so well, but thats mostley because the fish take off before i even get five feet of line stripped off the reel. Ive seen smalmouth be skittish like this but ive been fishing this river for easily seven years and the pike can be more skittish than any pike that ive ever fished anywhere else. there is very little rain for most of the summer and the water gets incredibly clear. you can see the pike quite easily in the small river during the day, but they wont even follow a fly until the sun starts to slip behind the trees, then if you put it in the right place it gets hammered. does anyone else fish a river like this?
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The Orvis knot rocks! I used to use the clinch knot to tie flies on my tippet, but never again! The Orvis knot is easy to tie and fast - I switch flies more often now if there's no action.
very nice work. living in the Rangeley, Maine area one has the opportunity to fly cast on some historical waters and see many flies from the world over. "Classic wet flies" have never been absent from my fly boxes in 37 years of fly casting. Some of these patterns reside there now and by the looks some additional patterns will soon take up residence!!!!! We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Ray Bergmans of the world. Best wishes for fly casting.
I have made this very well thought-out piece of kit and I like it a lot.
A couple of suggestions;
I use a C clamp wise and I have rounded the front edge of the base plate, which means I can rest my wrists/underarms on it comfortably.
I have some rather long tools and by drilling holes in in a 45 degree angle these can be accommodated (whether you want them on the sides or at the back).
I am using a lamp similar to the one illustrated and will surely get a swan-neck job as soon as I find it. Whether ordinary lamps or some 12 V jobs, I am not sure, the disadvantage with some 12 V is that you'll need a rather clumpsy transformer. Heat could also be an issue.
Finally I would like to thank Jan-Ole Willers for sharing this very good idea.
Tight Lines
That is a great looking fly. I am going to tie a few tonight and throw them at some Largemouth Bass tomorrow. I will let you know the result.
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This my pike streamer.
Martin,
I'm ready to leave at lunch time on Friday (possibly sooner if that's an issue).
I should get home around 12'o clock, which means that I can jump on an S-train and meet you anywhere in the Copenhagen area around 1'o clock.
I don't have any appointments on Sunday evening, so exact time of arrival home is not an issue.
Best regards,
Atli
I tested out some of these knots, and the Palomar and Orvis knots did seem to be better than the cinch. However, I had extreme difficulties in tying these two knots when using very small tippet.
Hi Wonderful page, have tried to contact Bob - no success. I need a mortising bit to make my own reel seats can you help please. Admire your work.
Very, very, very nice!!! Congratulations
Maravilhosas fotos
Sao Paulo BRAZIL
So is (was) that a bottle of Talisker?
Pity the fish shape is lost into the wader's dark colour, but nice character shot.
...perhaps the kind "hall monitor" will fix and/or deep-six the inadvertent hickup?!
Anyway...
Esox...Yesterdaze Canal bears no resemblance to the bi-polar current edition!
After dark, a shot gun would probably enhance safe passage but would spawn a grievance from the armed predators who would otherwise be breaking into your parked vehicle...
The Cape kettle ponds produce well year around but the seasonal transient headliners wear stripes and winter in warmer waters...So it goes!
How's the Canal? I guess I can say that I grew up hunting and fishing on The Cape. I use to walk The Cape side of the canal from the Sagamore to the Bourne with a shotgun, hunting upland game. Don't think I could do that now and stay out of jail. Caught a lot of salters in Scorton Creek and the Mashpee River in the Fall. You do any of that kind of fishing. And Santuit Pond was the best bass pond in the state. But of course the stripers were the main line. Nothing like it.
While fishing for Largemouth Bass today I was experimenting with a new fly I call "Hellgramite-Crawdad-Goose Turd". That is what it looks like. I was dragging it slowly across the bottom and got nailed hard. I had already caught a few small bass with it and this would have been a personal best, the way it took off and got into my backing so quickly. I had heard that there were big catfish in the pond and when the fish didn't even come close to the surface after five minutes of fight I figured I had hooked a catfish. It was a cat and it kept me busy for fifteen minutes. It measured twenty-nine inches long and weighed twelve pounds.
I do not catch many catfish on flies. Does anyone else?
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