Thanks Martin. I truely love your own pictures and this website, so I really appreciate your comment.
Despite agriculture and the French "catch and kill" mentality, there are still some interesting places in France (flyfishing wise). Beautiful rivers, wild fish ... but fishing is usually quite tough.
This is an awesome website! Have you seen the new mini Fish Pimps made by Angling Evolution. I have yet to try them but will in the next couple of days.
Dave,
The scene just kept on becoming more and more beautiful. This was a very foggy morning, and even after the sun was above the horizon the veiw was magnificent. Usually the magic disappears once the sun clears the horizon, but not here. The fantastic light didn't vanish before the fog had been burned off.
Martin
Nicolas,
That's a lovely picture! And it's great to see some fly fishing from places, which we don't often connect with our passtime.
Keep on posting.
Martin
Hi Martin,
How goes it mate?
Just read with interest your piece on bonefish patterns. Thought you might be interested to know of a "New, Old" pattern that is number 1 in my box at the moment.
Funnily enough it came about from a fly I "borrowed" from your sea trout box one day when you wern't looking ;-) I think you call it a Bjarke?
Anyway, I recieved a very nice bleached grizzle cape from Chevron Hackles a while back. The tannish colour tones immeadiatly made me think of bonefish.
Basically the fly looks like this.
Hook- size 6 or 8
Tail: A few strands of "root beer" crystal flash.
Body: Dubbed tan fur, nice and spikey.
Hackle: As mentioned above, palmered the whole length of the shank and clipped flat underneath.
Eyes: small, gold bead chain.
I fished the inside flats at Deadmans Cay, Long Island back in June. Was very lucky with the weather and the conditions made for some classic, ultra shallow water, wade bonefishing. The fish were spooky and ambush tactics were the order of the week. The pattern above outfished just about anything I had in my box by a mile.
Who said bonefish aint selective?
Cheers
Paul
Artistic: It's like a painting abstraction (colors, composition....) I love this picture (the yellow one too) Jean-Louis
This instruction is terrific: clear, simple and easy to follow with great photos of fishy-looking patterns. I especially like the tying tips. Thanks, Bob.
Olli,
You might consider a mail to Coch-y-Bonddu, which carries a lot of used books and might get a used copy of this one now and then.
Martin
Does anyone know where to get this book now a days, all I get is "out of print" answers.
any help appreciated.
Olli
Hey Joe.I live here in NY.I am minutes from the Catt,So I fish this trib often.The pressure here is getting as such that it has become elbo to elbo combat fishing.My post is this.The picture is a great post.But the fact that you and others have to name these wonderful places and adding the fact that you have a picture of where to go,,,Well I think maybe you should rethink what you are doing to our waters.TIght Lines,Happy trails to you and to yours.
"I broke my Aquafly flybox yesterday!"
Shit happens when you dont buy C&F boxes ;-)
composition little fall to left, but atmosphere and colors are fantastic...from me 6 points...great
The pictures indicate tubes of ABS not PVC. Is this correct?
Great, motivating picture.
How much water was he in?
What kind of Kayak is that?
Thank you for taking my mind off of work!
The best boots ever were the old Danner's. I go out 35-40 times per year on freestone streams that include very rough steelheard water and have found a way to still get Danner's.
Buy a pair of Danner hunting boots and have the sole ground down. Put felt on the sole, a good shop shop can do this for you, and you are set up. My current pair is going on six years. Cabela's has the Danner hunting boot.
The boot is solidly made of cordura and leather and lasts and lasts. Because they are a hunting boot, they are great for all the hiking that occurs when getting from one steelhead to another.
This is an expensive solution but they last.
Yes, good one Martin. How many times did you say to yourself, "I should just wait a little bit longer for that sun to show"
I am a Yank who lives and fly-fishes the western U.S almost for thirty years now. The rivers and streams are rough, tough, and brawling. Sometimes I even have to use chains, and always I use a wading staff and do not take chances while wading. My wading boot? Weinbrenner's original Borger Boot - made by a commercial work boot manufacturer. They are heavy, felt soled with studs and a protected box toe! Not made for dainty spring creeks. But, they last for years without any bruised ankles!
Paul & I chased several schools of these fish from a 12' punt for weeks to perfect the technique. We caught many fish up to 17lb on tippets down to 6lb. Paul took the cover photo with a borrowed a 2 1/4" square camera. This took an hour to set up. In the meantime the tide had gone out and I had to simulate wavelets with buckets of water.
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