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Bandi,

I wonder what you mean... respect? In what way is using a foam and plastic fly being disrespectful to the fish?

Garbage? Yes indeed! And I'm proud of it...
Simple, cheap and efficient? Yep!
Disrespectful? Not more than a couple of bags of flash or feathers from half a chicken on a hook if you ask me.

Martin

Submitted by bob on

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I was stung at sandbanks and it caned like hell

i had 2 sit on a sink in 43C temp - IT HURT!

Submitted by Bandi on

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Guys, don't you respect animals? What is this? Garbage-world!
Innovative of course, but...

[quote:8a586d966b="Martin Joergensen"][quote:8a586d966b="frank boggie"]I refer to my earlier posting of 16th july 2006 and would like to wholeheartedly thank Paul Joergensen for putting me on a successfull path in obtaining the drag plate washers for my reel.[/quote:8a586d966b]

Frank,

You are more than welcome. Glad you found what you needed. And it's Martin Joergensen, not Paul by the way.

Martin[/quote:8a586d966b]

Lino,

very nice. They look exactly they way they should. Obviously you found a way to control the epoxy.

Kasper Mühlbach

Lino,

Excellent results with the epoxy. I'm sure the fish will try to trash your flies, but not succeed... ;-)

Martin

Hi guys,

I've bought Z-poxy, 5 minutes setting and i thought let's give it a try.
The article about the epoxy miracle gave enough information how to tie the fly.
I took some photo's of my little creations :)
These flies will be used as little bait fish to catch North Sea mackerel and sea bass.

1st fly is with blue

[img:ee75fc0ddf]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d33/linocatucci/136_3616.jpg[/img:ee7…]

2nd fly is with chartreuse and a little bit of olive

[img:ee75fc0ddf]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d33/linocatucci/136_3617.jpg[/img:ee7…]

Bye,
Lino

Leo,

I'm sure the stamps are not for sale. Bas, who wrote this article years ago, will probably hang on to what he has - if he still has the stamps and the frames.

Martin

Submitted by Leo Reinecke on

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Are you aware of the Australian fly fishing FDC and the Austrian one?

Hi Kasper

Great report! You write very well and I hope we can see you again one day in Italy. Perhaps up north for Marble trout and Grayling!!

[quote:184b347a7c="frank boggie"]I refer to my earlier posting of 16th july 2006 and would like to wholeheartedly thank Paul Joergensen for putting me on a successfull path in obtaining the drag plate washers for my reel.[/quote:184b347a7c]

Frank,

You are more than welcome. Glad you found what you needed. And it's Martin Joergensen, not Paul by the way.

Martin

Lovely article and great pictures (as always) Kasper...Unlike my "stinks" pictures!!!
I know the feeling - waking up speaking another langauge - after a power nap.
My wife often wakes up speaking Lithaunian or Russian saying that our 10 month old son is lost!!!! Excuse me - Translate I say?!
My wife dreams of italy and your article didn't help!! Thanks...:-)

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Man, I like this method of dealing with nodes and straightening. A water soak, what could be harmful about that? Those power fibres have no doubt been moving and dealing with watery fluids all through their existance and it's hard to imagine any harm coming from it. Water or steam has been widely used in bending and shaping woody materials sucessfully for centuries. Besides, the heat treatment would eliminate any residual, unwanted moisture at that point anyway. Good stuff!

Hi,

Really great looking place and nice fishes!

There's whitefish over here in Finland too. Mainly its quite small like 15-30cm but it can grow quite a big too. It's quite common fish in Finland but not really popular fish among fly fishers, maybe mainly because the small avarage size. There is some lakes where you can have really good whitefish fishing and some rivers got really good population (actually coming from lakes) of whitefish but mainly small ones.

Here's one picture about whitefish, its 38cm, caucht with #14 size dry fly from a lake.

By the way. Indicators are not really popular here in Finland. More popular is to use 2-3 weighted (lead and tungsten beads) larvas and/or nymphs and short line, fishing with Czech nymphing style. Short casts upstream and weight and size of the flys depending on depth of the stream. Main point is that you get your flies to the bottom of the river and flies swim free :)

Submitted by Greg Davidge on

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I would like to buy a 10' 6wt 3 piece East Branch fly rod. Can anyone help me find one?

Your right Martin, great pics. There are quite a few different whitefish species around the world. There are lots of the Mountain Whitefish here in BC and a few other Canadian provinces.

Here's a link from the Fish BC website that describes the Whitefish and all the species here in BC. I hope this is the info you were looking for Moreno.

[url]http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/angling/game_fish/mntwhite.phtml[/…]

Grant, Moreno,

I'm pretty sure that the whitefish is the [url=http://fishbase.se/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2685][i:59b24ed353]Pro… williamsoni[/i:59b24ed353][/url], which seems to be common in the US.

I have caught a few in BC too. Nice fish, actually, but not really considered interesting by local anglers.

When we talk whitefish here in Denmark (AKA helt in Danish) I think we're talking [url=http://fishbase.se/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2674][i:59b24ed353]Cor… nasus[/i:59b24ed353][/url], which is common here, and often targeted on fly in some of our bigger lakes.

I have seen these fish spawning in Sweden, and man, there are some monsters in there!

This fish is probably about 3 kilos or 6 lbs, and as you can see on the next image, there were many. We saw hundreds.
[img:59b24ed353]http://10stille.dk/pictures/10stille/20051129/medium_pict0667.jpg[/img:…]

All the grey contours here are whitefish in the 2-3 kilos class. I litterally stood inbetween them and fired my camera and flash with no reactions at all. They were much too busy...
[img:59b24ed353]http://10stille.dk/pictures/10stille/20051129/medium_pict0699.jpg[/img:…]

Martin

Well Moreno, I'm really not sure what the Mountain Whitefish has for a Latin name or such info, but I will look through some of the info I have on local fish species to see what I can find. Funny thing is, most people here don't know much about the species and consider them a bottom "garbage' feeding nuisance species. The truth is, they feed on nothing but nymphs and are actually a great fighting and eating fish. They don't really jump much, but do "bull dog" and make some rather fierce runs. Nice part about most people not considering them a sport fish, no one really targets them and there always seems to be a lot of them around. That's alright, more fish for me to catch then........ :wink: A really big one will reach 2-2.5 kg. but the average is more around the 1-1.5 kg. size. If I find the info your requested, I'll post it soon.

Hi Grant

Nice pics and fish. The Swift Mountain Whitefish looks like an interesting fish. Could you tell me more about it like latin name etc?

Thanks

Hi Grant

Nice pics and fish. The Swift Mountain Whitefish looks like an interesting fish. Could you tell me more about it like latin name etc?

Thanks

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