I've had great success with the Cone head Zuddler here in Michigan this winter fishing for Brown Trout on the Upper Manistee - I've found several recipes for the Zuddler - but no pattern - I'm inexperienced at tying - however, the flies are cosing me $2.30 at the fly shop and it's killing me! I have all the tools - and can buy the materials - but, I can not find a pattern - do you have it? Can I bum it from you?
Thanks - many tight lines -
Derek
Really helpful when you've got 'all the gear and no idea'!!
I fish heavily for bass. Would you reccomend this fly on rivers?
Hey Martin -
Hope you are well. I have linked my recipe for this stonefly to your pic rather than post a copy, and included credits to you for the photo. FYI
I hope you fish that fly - it has been good to me!
it looks cool
Axel,
I do have a favorite. In the article you will find the following sentences:
Danish Pastry Fly
Some flies just work, and this is one that works for me. Its history has been told here already. One thing, which remains to be told, is that 74 out of the 120 sea trout I have caught during the last three years have been taken on this pattern.
Find a link to the pattern in the article.
Martin
Nice page, but have you (for you) the one and only best fly? (seatrout)
I mean the absolut favorite fly for 80% fishing.
Regards and knaek og break from Axel (Germany Kiel)
Hellow Martin
A note to you and the staff. Thank you----all for a bang up job, the GGF web site has a little something for all of us who enjoy the sport of fly fishing an tying our flies. I bought Leon Link's book Tying Flies With CDC last year after seeing flies with CDC from GGF. 80% of fishing is with wets, soft-hackles, nymphs, this cdc material incorpated with other materials has improved many of my flies. The Zuddler is a fly from your site that has been good for bass an hybrids this year for me. I am looking forward too trying the Bow River Bugger this spring for Large Mouth Bass here in Georgia. From your picture it looks like you are snowed in. Good tying time. Jan. Feb. are the tying months for me. No snow here but cold-wet- windy a lot of the time.
Thanks again for all your hard work to make GGF an enjoyable web site for all.
ED Madan. Lagrange, GA.
Do it Doug. You will not be disapointed. Plan for at least 5 days in Nov or Dec.
Great! Thanks for the tip, I've been looking for a way to clean my rod handel. Thanks again.
Ole (and Hans),
I haven't caught hundreds of fish on this pattern, and neither has Kasper, the originator, but in spite of this I am quite certain about the fact that "nibbles" and missed strikes are not due to the length of the fly and the placement of the hook, but caused by the way that some fish don't strike the flies, but rather tests it or merely touches it.
This is of course a pure theory on my behalf because I only have some loosely formed ideas about how the fish actually behave when they follow a fly and open their mouths over it. From my fishing for trout and other species, my guess is that a fish, which really wants to swallow a food item, does not hesitate or nibble or taste - it swims forward at a fast pace, opens its mouth widely, sucking in the food, and often turns away after that. This I have seen on videos showing fish taking dry flies on the surface, saltwater fish taking streamers and bass and pike striking lures.
If the fish does this with any fly, long or short, it will hook itself.
Think of some of the flies used for other fish: sand eel imitations for striped bass, long streamers for pike not to mention the long, green string flies used for barracuda. These flies can be up to 20-30 centimeters long (almost a foot!) and still the fish manage to get hooked.
I have caught very small fish on the Epoxy Miracle and they were very well hooked indeed. Look at the picture in the article. This has happened to me several times. So I believe that larger fish will have no troubles at all swallowing this relatively small fly and getting hooked on the hook.
Martin
Dear Martin,
tied also some of the epoxy flies as mentioned in this article. Two questions came up:
A) Due to the length of the hairwing/tail the hook is located in the first half to quarter of the fly. I think you fished this nice fly already a couple of times. Did you ever experienced due to the length of the tail/wing a higher rate of "ineffective" attacks?
B) Do you put on first the eyes or first the epoxy?
Happy new year,
Ole
I like the composition of this picture, but I hope the catcher would'nt have to carry that grate around with him!!
This is one of the best "leader" articles I have ever read. Beautiful and comprehensive. Well done and my compliments. I plan to share it with my fishing buddy. Thanks
I had never thought of gar as a sport fish, iv'e only ever seen them used as aquarium fillers.
FF@ got crazy after 1995--too many people and posts. You can still search through the posts by year at http://jdunns.dyndns.org/flyfishq.html in case you're looking for more bad, bad flyfishing haiku. In case you forgot, it was in 1995. =)
My favorite, it's haunted me for years:
'bacco spit dribbles
Whilst clutching his netted prey
It's a brown trout now.
--Chris Knight
the information on this page is very informative to me as a beginer at trying to make a fishing rod for myself thank you very much
Brian Larson is correct, gortex-type/breathable materials find it very hard to work when they are soaked. However, breathables do work better than neoprene in the extreme cold. Why? Because the "technical-clothing" paradigm relies on layers whereas neoprene wearers rarely employ this tactic. Using baggy beathables with a set of silk/cotton draws, a thermal liner and loosed fitting underwear makes for unbeatable insulation against the cold - and you don't get damp (as you do in neoprene) because the layers wick the moisture away from your skin - and that is the secret to day-long wading in the cold.
I do, however, believe that at the end of the day it comes down to personal choice - and my choice is breathables - ALL YEAR ROUND!
Unless you are in very hot water, the condensation point of the vapor will be less than the temperature of the water. The vapor will condense as it cools, once condensed it can not travel through the membrane. Ther may be some minor thing happening under the conditions, which occure most of the time that keep the vapor from escaping, but I don't know of them. I also must sweat way more than most becasue I have never had dry cloths inside my waders regardless of what type I use. In warm weather I can usually ring water out of my socks. Tightness of the waders will also make a big difference. With the right cloths while xcountry skiing I have steped into a stream while crossing and never gotten uncomprotabe during the balance of the trip even though the inside was soaked and the outside became frozen. I have also collected a half inch of ice crystals between the shell on the outside and the last inside garment.
Mike,
1994 and 1996, huh? A lot of water has run under the bridge since then. I was into ff@ too back then. Haven't been on the list for ages and sometimes wonder how it's doing. Probably much the same I guess.
Fishing Denmark still criss-crosses GFF and traces can be found everywhere.
And we're glad to have you back! :-)
Martin
Hi Martin
I used to get flyfish@ back in 1994 when things were new and people were just starting to get into the whole web browsing thing. In 1996, I was living in Germany and I used to spend hours looking at Fishing Denmark. I'm glad I found you again. =)
Cheers
--Mike
Tony,
Boca Paila may be worth a visit on your own. It's a limited size area, but does look really appealing. Check out this article and Christian's site for some inspiration.
Martin
Dear Martin,
Liked your article with all the nice pictures a lot, it gave me some drive and motivation to put out the vise again to fill up some patterns which are low in stock.
Discovered your site first while I was doing some research in regard of a blank for a rod building job. In general I like the globalflyfisher website and pass by at least every one or two months to check what's new.
My personal world of fishing has two hot spots, one is Northern America with a lot of good suppliers and manufacturers of fishing equipment and some good sites in regard of rod building. The other is the Scandinavian area where I prefer to go fishing, also with some good manufacturers of equipment as well. So what makes the difference between your site in regard of the content and other sites is that it is not a pure regional site like some others, on top it represents exactly the areas which are of my personal interest in this regard.
This just as a small feedback from the internet.
RGDS,
Ole
Hamburg/Germany
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