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    Need Some Opinions

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    Not sure on how to help. But does this kind of fly fishing have a name? It does sound pretty effective and would like to give it a go.

    Thanks

    Its the same as any technique sometimes it works and most times it doesn't.

     

    GrDrake, As Riconus points out, it is an issue unless you strip quickly. The technique is developed by the Brits who generally kill all they catch. Didn't matter much. I too tried the technique allowing the line to lay flat on the bottom and retrieve it slowly. Deep hooking every time. For this reason, I gave it up. Two years ago I watch Brian Chan fish the floating flies with sinking lines. He retrieved fast w/o a problem. So, I gave it a try again and Brian's technique was a lot more fish friendly. I fish a type 4 in 4'>6' of water. Either you keep it moving or you're weeded. So, sped it up or kill a bunch of trout. Don.

     

    My retrieve hook ups have been fine. All just have to be a little more careful when am helping the wife.

    Shout Outs

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    I would have to say that Don Anderson for sure. Barry Mitchell ranks pretty high on my list too. Bob Scammell I love Bobs column been reading it for ever. Finely Dave and Amelia Jensen I can't thank them enough for how much I've learned from following their adventures.

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    Need Some Opinions

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    I did consider circle hooks but i think the problem is the technique itself and the response it gets from trout and not the hooks themselves. I've got it to about 98% of the trout I hook it's in the lips or close to it. But last time i used it was on Thursday and I was just slaying trout almost every cast. The problem was when i stopped to help the wife land a fish i would hook a fish while my fly sat out there not moving and sure as heck it would be deep.

    Gunna try not letting it sink on a slack line just stay tight till it sinks and if i can't have my hands on the line all rip it in and get it out of the water.

     

    So you mean bend the hook point up towards the shank to change the angle it takes to remove it? I've actually been bending mine away from the shank so you just have to push it back a bit to get it out.

    Need Some Opinions

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    So I've Been fishing this technique this year. I'm sure you have all read about it or maybe you even use it yourself. Now I've read about in many fly fishing books and if you read the Alberta weekly Fishing report the lad doing the lake section usually recommends using it.

    The technique is using super fast sinking lines to drag a floating hook down to the bottom and retrieving it. I absolutely love this style of fishing its very fun for me. First thing i do is peel my line off right to the backing and double haul my whole line out into the lake sometimes even shooting backing with my line. For me its that act of bombing casts as far as I can that i find appealing.

     

    The problem with this technique is its fricken brutal on the trout. They tend to just inhale the hook if you let them. Now I've modified my flies by going to a little more open gap and cutting about 1/8 of an inch off the point and re sharping making sure there is no barb what so ever left on the hook I started losing about 1/3 of the trout i hooked just by them throwing my hook. Also i keep my hook moving to minimize deep hooking..Been working pretty good my hook falls out as soon as there netted nine times out of ten.

    Problem is no matter how aware you are your going to deep hook a few fish .

     

    I just don't know what to do i love this style of fishing but i hate it at the same time. i don't want to piss off the old boys on the lake either because if I know its hard on trout so do they and I have i lot of respect for those guys

     

     

    So anyone have any advice on how to make this technique work without damaging fish. Am at the point where am going to cut my hook off at the top of the bend and just leave strait shaft and just fish for strikes still alot of fun really.

    A Trip That Meant More Than One Can Explain

    in Photo Posts

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    Thanks for sharing that Pete, glad your getting back to the things you love in life.

     

    I've never fished with Dave or Amelia but they motivated me to be a much better fly fisherman. I doubled the size of my PB brown because of their video's . I don't know why but everytime I see Dave and Amelia it makes me think of Joan and Lee Wolfe or Barry and Cathy beck, Dave and Amelia Whitlock. Still blows me away watching their video's even though I've watched them a hundred times each lol

    Anyone With Jet Boat Help

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    Thanks.

     

    We have a company drift boat that only I know how to row. Had a shop hand row one day as I was teaching him (so that I could fish) and we almost went sideways into a bridge pillar.

     

    Scary stuff. I only asked so that I could avoid doing this or tell a story to someone whom is learning to row.

     

    Glad you guys came out unscathed.

    Well when you hit a rock sideways like that you need to act fast. The tendency is for people to lean away from the rock causing the boat to flip or get swamped faster. You need to use human weight as ballast, counteracting the boats tendency to roll and flip.This takes quick and determined action, What most experienced boatman do is continue using the upstream oar to make levering sweeps, trying to pry and spin the boat off the boulder before it flips or swamps. This is where human ballast comes in. You need to lean into the rock, using human weight as ballast in fighting the boats tendency to be pushed under.

     

    If you own a drift boat you owe it to yourself and your passengers to educate yourself. Your passengers and whoever you get to row needs to know these things before you get on the river. If i could suggest a few great books by Neale Streeks called Float-Fishing Strategies and Drift Boat Fly Fishing (A river guide's sage advice).

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    Iron Bow Stocked Tying Materials

    in Fly Tying Bench

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    Just popped in for the first time this week. I've stayed away since they opened because it looks like a snobby shop. BUT, it isn't at all. Super friendly service, and the store is full of great stuff and its bigger than it looks from the outside. Sorry Fishtails, I'm a Nort-westy and Iron Bow is going to be my fly tying supply shop from now on. They are way closer and not shopped out of materials. In fact the racks were packed.

    What a silly thing to say, looks like a snobby shop too funny.

    What Is Better?

    in Fly Tying Bench

    Posted

    Couldn't agree more with Tungsten. my go to chromie is a very simple thread body with a gold bead no rib or anything, It constantly out fishes any of the other fancy chormies in my box by quite a large margin from BC to Manitoba.

    Still Water Boat

    in Ask the Pros

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    I've used my XL Hybrid on lakes many times and love fishing out of it. I set it up with a front anchor mount from Hyde and pyramid anchors on both ends and have comfortable fished in high winds no problems. I Hardly even notice the waves in my Hyde and I've fished in 50 km/h winds a few times lol.

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