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I am putting myself out on a limb here but I will attempt the following for this
Copper John
Hare Sculpin
Serendipity Caddis Nymph
Marabou Dace
When do you need these in for? I need to allow 10 days for postage from here to reach you and getting near Christmas might mean a delay so I will get them off as quickly as possible in the next week.
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There is a variation of the PTN I use, instead of the seal's fur, substitute a yellow seed bead and it works just as well allowing the nymph to fish deeper without the addition of lead wire.
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oddly, i have found that any variant of a micky fin streamer works well in most rivers. and egg head leeches for lakes in spring
You need to get out more!
Streamers and Leeches indeed!
Get tying more damsels for spring along with PTNs for sub-surface and then onto the Griffiths and GRHE Paras for the surface work.
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This is my 'go to' PTN, works a treat on still water rainbows feeding on the bottom. Small but deadly.
Hook - Kamasan B175 size 12Thread - UTC Olive
Rib - Hot Yellow UTC brassie wire
Tail, abdomen, wingcase - 5 or 6 long PT fibres - hen or cock
Thorax - Gorse Yellow Seals Fur
This is tied as a one piece - trap the tail fibres after catching in the ribbing wire and then wind on the abdomen, trap with thread and then spiral the rib, trap this and break off then dub on the seal's fur and take the fibres over this to form the wing case and tie down before trimming and whip finishing the nymph.
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If I can offer a contribution to this, let me know especially if you like crap flies!
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These are common here with salmon anglers moving from beat to beat - Rod Clamps
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Jayvee,
if you have never tied before and cannot get to any classes for a while I suggest you take a read of this from our resident Step Meister - Beginning Fly Tying and this one for the full SP - Begin Here
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Try to find a copy of the Brian Clarke and John Goddard book, The Trout and The Fly.
It was published in 1980 and was based on observations of trout behaviour on the Chalk streams of England. Do not let this put you off as the insight into the trout's behaviour is international. It cover feeding habits, lies, movement in water and is as applicable today as it was on the day it was written.
You can learn more from this book than most others as it is about the trout and the fly and how to understand the relationship better with a view to landing more fish.
ISBN 0 510-22534-9 Published by Ernest Benn Limited, London and Tonbridge
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Drbulltrout hit the nail on the head!
I don't use indicators such as shown here but prefer to rely on a bushy dry fly either top droppered or fishing the nymphs New Zealand style from the dry fly hook. OK, changing your fishing depth means replacing the tippet from fly to nymph but this is much more preferrable than plonking one of those luminous monstrosities on the water and calling it fly fishing. That is similar to what we did as kids using a bubble float to hang the flies from a spinning rod!
Yarn indicators and floating putty are better than those other items but the dry fly gives you extra hooking potential as the fish just might rise to investigate it and end up taking it.
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THis is todays rate of exchange between the Euro and USD
Friday, November 9, 2007
1 US Dollar = 0.68233 Euro
1 Euro (EUR) = 1.46556 US Dollar (USD)
It used to be the other way around a few years back and makes for us a good time to either buy from the US or to go there as our spending power has risen.
and as for the GBP against the USD, well it means less Americans holidaying in the UK!
Friday, November 9, 2007
1 US Dollar = 0.47537 British Pound
1 British Pound (GBP) = 2.10364 US Dollar (USD)
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Vernille is a much finer form of Chenille and would be ideal for a Streamer type of fly. Nice and compact fibres and a diameter about 3/32nds of an inch, any colour you like. Often mistaken for Suede Chenille as it has a similar appearance but is much finer.
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that's an interesting way of doing it. so you just slipped the beads over the cdc and glued them in place?
and here i was screwing around with wires and such. i like the look of this.
Sometimes you just have to think out of the box, I get all sorts of ribbing about my ideas but if they have never been seen before who is to say that they won't work?
We, nowadays, are not limited by available materials as were our counterparts in days of yore when all they had were natural products, we have an endless, ever expanding choice of material so and why should we limit our ideas to those that have ruled in the past?
Throw away the rule book and get thinking out of the box!
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Here is a little knock up of a detached body Damsel that was made with bits lying around the vice to illustrate how easy it is to replicate the real thing. If I had taken time and selected the correct materials then it would appear more realistic but this serves to illustrate the idea quite well.
The body was a CDC plume with the beads slipped into place and a few drops of varnish to lock them up, I let this dry overnight so it was not quite five minutes! You can use any colour of bead to replicate the abdomen of the species found at your fishery.
The hook is a Kamasan B175 size 10, a heavy wire hook.
The thorax and head are just dark olive spectrablend and the wings are 4 grizzle hackles, I did not bother to trim these as it is not going to be fished. Eyes are made using the headlamp technique I demonstrated elsewhere in the forum.
In the pipeline is a spun deer hair Damsel but this is awaiting the kind offer of Laurie Finney who is going to dye some materials in Picric for me, Nice one, Laurie!
All in all it looks a reasonable facsimile and with a bit more work could be quite a good fly for the adult Damsel season.
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Vice is empty just now, all ongoing swaps are posted out - OK - count me in.
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We have the same problem as you guys buying from the USA here in Ireland if you buy from Amazon, they just won't ship to Ireland from the UK but advertise the cameras on their Irish site!
So, I ordered the camera, Fuji S9600 c/w 2Gb memory, and had it sent to my mate in Scotland who sent it on to me in Ireland, result - saved 150 Euro over Irish prices and got the camera from Amazon after all.
I use it for all my SBSs now as I used to use - wait for it - a Kodak DC280 until it packed in and then I used my wife's Nikon L101 P&S.
The Fuji does all I need, I don't need a waterproof camera but might consider it for the future
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That is suddenly so popular..can someone please explain this to me?
BBB,
CDC is the new Black for you guys, we have been using it for a few years now and appreciate the differing qualities that you can get when you are tying.
For dries it beats the hell out of making slip wings and ginking them up as the natural floating qualities are excellent. As to motion as said by SJW, it imparts a different type of motion compared to marabou and synthetics. Uses are endless when you get down to it, breathers on buzzers, wings, hackles, gills, tails, dubbing, you name it, it can be done with CDC, you can even make a lure from it providing you soak it before use and that will give you a pulsating movement that no other material can. See this for example - CDC Puff Poodle Lure.
TLs
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so first one is done for material picking and we are on to the second one. great job guys. this should be great.
no one said what lite brite is
Copper Flashabou would do the same job mixed in with the seal's fur, I use this a lot as well compared to the Lite Brite as it is shorter strands and easier to mix with the fur.
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And they call us Scots cheapskates? You guys are taking it to a new level! Belly button fluff indeed!
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The first three pictures are not as bad as they look as this is called 'scaling', it is due to the constant friction between rail and train wheel forming a work hardened skin that splits from the track, only over a long period would this be a danger.. More concern is the photograph of the ties where the rotted tie's track pins have raised causing it to flex and cause subsequent raising of the adjacent track pins. This causes even more flexing of the rail and loosening of the track pins away from the initial damage until there is a possibility of a derailment due to the track being loose over several ties. The chipped ends of the expansion joint should not be allowed to get as bad as shown in the last photograph as the damage will increase with traffic over it.
I know a little bit about track as when I was a mining apprentice we had to lay the stuff and knew what to look for on inspection of it.
Get your rail company off their fat ass and get it repaired!
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I just noticed the poll at the top of the page and voted 10 or more because recently I have been involved in a lot of fly swaps and by doing 12 or more of a fly you soon get it down pat especially if it something you like doing. When I did the Bomber fly for the Province swap I was glad to see the back of it, not because of the tying but the bloody mess of my tying area!
The Frawg was a different story as it was a time consuming fly to tie but fun none the less. The most I have tied of a single pattern has been 24 but in 3 different sizes, again a time consuming fly as I had to strip hackles for this and not every hackle was usable resulting in a pile of waste!
Practice makes perfect. Never a truer adage to be spoken!
Getting away from repetitive flies and into the creative, out the box thinking is where I have the most enjoyment and then trying them out to see if they are catchers or not. Luckily about 60% of my experimental flies are catchers and this is enough to keep you at the vice. I try to get the experimental stuff out to a few people who fish different styles and waters to see if the pattern can become an all rounder or just a species or water type specific fly. An example of this was the Glass Bead Damsel which has become a still water lure for both Browns and Rainbows after extensive trialling.
It must have been the same for those tyers of yore when patterns were limited and they would have to have tied hundreds of the same fly because there would not have been the options that we have available to us now.
Happy tyings. Folks.
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OK - what is this mylar motion stuff that you like? Similar to the likes of crystal hair and the like?
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Iconnu, (Writer 1 ) for those who don't know his alter ego
the ball is in your court for this
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OK - Got the gist of it - round this off with a Fiery Brown Seal's Fur Thorax with some Gold Lite Brite mixed in with it
and we end up with this
so far -
glow-in-the-dark mylar motion creamy white
item #182186-89
You have to be kidding!
I think there must be a guy in a back room somewhere especially employed to think up the most insane product names and get them on the shelves!
Incredible!
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S'okay,
I have looked them up and I think that I can do a half decent job of tying them.