Nice brookie, looks to be from the Rangeley genetic pool, big headed brookies in that gene pool. Beautiful fish regardless, love my state and its abundant fly fishing resource of native fish, a rarity in some states sadly. Thanks for sharing video ill have to do the same soon got a whoppa land locked on video from 2002, 7.98 lbs, on 5x woot woot.
Wow, great video Jorgensens the man. Our sea run brown season just started to warm up the last two weeks, have been rather lucky having landed 7 fish all 20 inches plus in the last 3 weeks. New England has minimal sea run trout opportunities, and those in the know are reluctant to share info about hot spots or patterns, but thanks to your sight and insight over the years I have become an accomplished sea run angler tyvm for the knowledge and wisdom.
Thanks Martin for the nice editing and the "broadcast" of this pattern!
I would like to encourage everyone that tries tying and fishing this pattern to send me news (and eventually photos) of the experience.
Share with me your stories of success! It will be great for me to see what is achieved with this one and help me develop further patterns.
All my best!
GW
Pete,
I would have love to go! I went a few times, and thoroughly enjoyed the show, meeting the GFF crew plus a large bunch of old and new friends. I even got to fish on several occasions - local small streams, stripers and stocked browns on Long Island.
I can see that this year would have put me face to face with a lot of people whom I haven't met - including yourself - as well as a whole bunch of old friends.
I'm glad the show was good. It usually is. I almost regret that I didn't go, but it's a bit more than a car drive from here...
Martin
Gotta love those eyes! Great tie Bob!
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Superb work, an informative article and a great design. I too am an engineer and have been thinking about a project such as this for a while now. I have large workshop machinery so can use larger bar stock and I'm aiming more toward a 7/8 weight for sea trout and an 11/12 weight for salmon. Great descriptions here and definitely the "poke in the ribs" that I need to get started.
Have you got any plans to incorporate a reasonably simple drag system to future designs?
Thank you, keep up the good work.
Thank you for leadercalc. I am new at flyfishing. Leader construction has been the most confusing part of flyfishing for me so far. Leadercalc has helped a great deal.
I have one suggestion and one question.
My suggestion is to add an "ALL" option under the drop-down for leader length and tippet size. That would allow a list of all available leaders for any given line weight.
My question is; how can I find a source that would show the philosophy or theory behind each individual leader choice?
Thanks again for leadercalc.
Charlie Pike
cpikemi@comcast.net
Martin
I'm just getting into fly tying and steelhead fishing. All of this is excellent information for me as a beginner. You have done your research extremely well, along with your presentation of the material, in all of your articles.
Thank you for your dedication to the sport,
J
Progressing very nicely Benoit,lovely looking hairwing..
Thanks for publish my coment, but I think that the question is not stop fish in this places (Strobel in Las buitreras, and Tsimane, in Rio Grande), but the question is to stop feedind the EGO showing big "animals", I know GFF is for this, and also to educate the fisherman, this is the most important mission of this cybersapace.....
Absolutely love this fly, but finding the peacock pheasant isn't easy, any ideas of what other feathers could be used as the cheek?
Thanks Chris
It is a hard feather to find, and I don't think there is an easy sub, but I would tie in a guinea hen feather with a jungle cock nail in front perhaps. If you try it out, send it and I'll post it.
D
Cool, I'll try it out and let you know how it works out!
from:kichi:Japan
I have east branch 9' 4wt 3 piece rod, which I've got more than 13years ago, by internet shopping.
I have many famous brands flyrods, but east branch rod is my most favarite rod, best action, easy to
rollcast, and beautiful handmade craftmanship. I am looking for east branch rods through internet for longtime.
Ernesto,
You and I have discussed this several times before, and I know your opinion about people paying to fish places where few of us can go. But you have to get used to that fact. I will keep on publishing good fishing videos, articles and images no matter how much it offenses you. If your standards were applied on GFF, very little would find its way to these pages.
People can pay to go fishing places that are not publicly accessible. That's the way it is and the way it has been for a very long time. You and I may not be able to go, but that doesn't make it less interesting.
Money can get you a lot of places. You and I might think that it should be different, but that's how it is. Whether it's buying a big car, a fancy fishing rod or access to closed off areas, money can be the key. And stopping fishing in Lago Strobel, Iceland, the Kola Peninsula, the Seychelles or any other expensive fishing destination is NOT going to save the world or stop starvation. I wish it was, but it's not.
This might not be the best video we have published here, but people are viewing it, and it's certainly not offending in any form.
Martin
It might change the fly a little bit, but you could bulk it up a little with some floss under the mylar.
Money buys everything!! Places, food, even fish .... it is an abuse to see the rich with huge fish in Strobel in Las buitreras, and Tsimane, in Rio Grande, while there are people starving in the world ... stop publishing these abuses of power and lust, it is very offensive!
Lorenzo,
All the stream pictures are from the Fraser river in Colorado. It's a good little stream that hasn't disappointed me yet.
Davie
I think your videos are great. I would like to try some of the Classic Flies. I have watched you building a wing, you make it look so easy. Where can I purchase the dyed Turkey Tails, I have tried using Goose, not very successful.
Kind Regards
Gareth
Sean,
It's the top fly - nearest to the rod - when you fish more than one fly, and in particular more than one dropper - the flies tied on the line above the point fly, which is the last one in the row. Read this article for way more on fishing several flies and droppers.
Martin
I am new to fly fishing. I have tied flies for about a year now give or take a month. I am a differently able person and haven't found anyone who wants to take me on and teach me the casting, and presentation 2/3 of the sport. But I keep hearing English, and Scottish, Irish tiers too, mention a top dropper. What is it. I know there must be nymphs tied to it somehow, because I heard one fellow tier say, "This is a good top dropper it will hold up a couple of tungstens." This page came up when I googled, What is a top dropper?
Hi,
In defining the length of the CDC "wing" Hans says "The length of the body". I wonder if he really means the length of the hook shank.....The "body" of a fly is often defined as the abdomen as opposed to the abdomen and the thorax...?
Thanks
Does anyone know what happened to Hans Weilenmann's danica.com site ??
Bob
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