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Thanks Cheeler mate

A little fella that might just deceive friend trout into a take

Another Salmon Fly for your side of the pond, great for Cutthroats, Steelheads, and Artic Char, as well as the spring run Salmon

Thought you might like this one, it came from the States, and is effective on all trout but specifically Steelheads and spring salmon, and I'm sure if dressed on a #2 it could even tempt the shyest of pike out of it's hole

Now that Bow River Bugger would work well over here when we have a spate, what size hook have you got it on cheeler mate,

Same the world over when it comes to politicians, they're all plonkers, whatever happened to the good old feudal system, LOL

I've just been reading about your plite with regards to the livingstone, it seems such a same, if theres anything you think we can do over here in the UK to help please don't hesitate to ask, I don't know if we can but we'd be willing to try, I'll put a post on our forum over here you never know, hope something get done over there

Strangely, over here in the UK. we only tend to get them on the public holidays, they generally check all stillwaters and lakes, the rivers don't seem to be policed as well as they should be, the water bailiffs tend to hit the easy access areas but the beats and swims the illegal fisherman use are normally out of the way and inhospitable to get to so they don't bother, typical really,

Please don't tale ofence but i found this pattern in an old 1908 tying book for a winter brown, so I've dreesed one Hook 16 to 12 fine Thread pearsalls scarlett Wing inner covert feather from a young woodcock Thorax green tinged peacock herl Head tied thread The book was by a GW Gallican

Nice fly AC, do you think they'd work in a black or red for grayling ?

Nice looking fly BBB, I've always woven them, but I think your way looks good to me,I'll try it but with darker shades for over here though

Very nice, my type of fly

For any begginers out there try this site, Alans a very helpful chap so give it a go, http://www.progressiveflytying.com/

Well the set up I have is a flourecent adjustable heavy base lamp, and the magnifier, was a 5" hand held fitted to an old lamp stand, take a look see

I reckon GOJO is similar to Decosyl, that we have over here, clear orange gel, cleans everything and anything, we have a one now has polymer particles in it that aid the cleaning, personally I use ordinary washing up liquid with a nylon scourer, works fine, just make sure you let it dry naturally, don't be tempted to put it over heat, it'll bugger the cork up, if you're in a hurry use the cool setting on a hair dryer,

Hi All, just thought I'd like to give you my favourite fly dresser, I doubt he will be known over the pond but here in the UK he's very well known for his innovative patterns his flies are tied to match at times some strange and wonderful things, but his imitation patterns are probably some of the most realistic around, the dressers name is Leon Guthrie, from Galasheils, in the Scottish Borders, Leon at present is not in the best of health, so spends most of his days tying flies, ( or Fleas ) as he likes to call them, I've included a link to his patterns on our forum in the UK, I just hope it works but these patterns I'm putting up are one of the deadliest flies I've ever fished with, we call them the Satanic Buzzer Please when using this link scroll to the bottom as we have the latest post at the top of the page, and please feel free to browse the rest of the forum, join if you like we'll make you welcome http://gameangler.eu/index.php?topic=1419.15

As promised an SBS mind please excuse the photography, it's not the best in the world, First start by tying the eyes in place, then run the thread to the hook bend, wind on some fine lead wire, Next take a pinch of olive marabou over a pinch of orange marabou and tie in as a tail, Next dub on either orange seals fur, or orange glister and wind up to the eyes, lastly tie in a pinch of olive marabou as a wing give a couple of extra turn to secure the marabou then take the thread and whip finish in front of the eyes

Exactly, my point, it doesn't matter for the vast majority of us we would never be able to reach the distances the pro casting champs can, "I couldn't get that far with a boat" I'm happy to get a full line out with the rods I have, and I'll endeavour to teach that to anyone who asks me for help, timing, rhythm, and acceleration, I find a musicians metronome ideal for timing and rhythm, the tick tock can be set to whatever the rod load type, and if you place it on a chiar in front of the caster he works with it.

It still boils down to the fact that if your rhythm is wrong or your timing is wrong, then you won't get the best from your cast, now I don't know how it works across the pond but i don't know many coaches over here that can go into the math, or the dynamics of the ultimate cast, the R&D guys can but not the run of the mill coaches, and these are the guys at the business end of coaching, and the bog standard novice is not interested in the tech spec either , all they want is to get a line on the water and catch fish, so rather than give them all the tech bumph, I generally just firstly put an anti wrist brake device on them and get them to learn the stopping positions both behind them and in front of them, using a short line and the casting pond, once they've mastered that, I go into the power aspect, the inertia of the stop that propels the line forward, it's worked for me without all the math, The only math I want to know, is if I use a full 30 yard line and a fish takes a further 30yards of backing how much backing do I have left before I'm running down the river after the damn fish

Since I retired two years ago I fish five, or six days a week, and I'm always varying the standard fly pattern just to see how they work, the blue does seem to work better in the deeper cooler water, so maybe the fish do see the blue tinge better at depth, mind the blue works better with rainbows than with brownies

I got these ones from Hardys in Alnwick, PM me an address, and I'll send you a pack, no bother at all

I normally tie them as small as 16 for the stillwaters over here, but for the larger stillwaters an 8, 6, or 4, would not look out of place, you should give them a go they'revery easy to tie, I'll try and post a SBS for you

I will post the photo for you maybe tomorrow, need batteries for the camera, but basically it's a dark brown wing, the advantage of the moorhen is the waterproof qualities, but you can use the wing feather from a hen blackbird, or a darkish starling breast feather, they do work quite well, there are other Bloas that use Snipe, grouse, and brown partridge, preferably english and not french, we are coming to the end of our shooting season here or I could have bagged a few for you, but I'll see what the lads have up for grabs and let you know

Seems to back up what I said in my post of the 17th, their conclusion is the caster is the controlling factor in the cast not the rod, or it's action, nice for once to have some scientific fact to help us out, Thanks Weedy mate

Funny you should say that Hydro mate, but the Shakespeare's both have single legs, it' something I've not thought of before, but on the other hand I've got an old Patek Morton, it's a big old glass fibre thing I've had for years, the action is right through butt to tip, it's so slow you could have lunch while it loads, but the thing is it has agate eyes throughout, but the same rod can still punch a full line out, and a while ago I gave a friend of mine an old Fibretube ( this was a sister company to Hardys, they made the blanks for them ) rod it was carbon fibre with agate eyes right through, and that can put a full line out, so I don't know if your theory of single legs givng a less dampening action to double legs holds water, but I will try the difference between my #8 Hardy Sirrus 10' and my 8# Shakespeare Oddessy 10', basically it will be interesting to see if it takes more effort to cast with one or the other, I'm away fishing a still water tomorrow, I'll take both rods and field test them using the same line, I'll post the results tomorrow night