My First Rock Fish

[Glenbow]

I caught my first rock fish on Saturday, it took the chironomid. It fought at first, but then came in like a pussy cat. I am definitely fishing with some wierd mojo to be catching the things that I am lately.

 

 

I think it might be an Alberta record........we'll never know for sure, as I released it before weighing & measuring it.

[birchy]

That's interesting. I wonder if they're more or less prized than the Rocky Mountain Whitefish?

[esleech]

Wow, I saw that on a hinterland who's who!

[lonefisher]

Glen!!!!!!!! you gave away the magic rockfish fly! now people everywhere are gonna be catching rockfish..... look what you've done. Better sell me your whole inventory of chromies in order to protect this valuable resource.

 

PS you catch that on the spey rod as well?

[OneMoreLastCast]

Gonna Smoke that one?

[Glenbow]

Duh MTB, I said I released it. Gawd.

[brewingup]

what colors are on the chironomid Glen? Is that black or brown?

 

And where did you say that was again?

[maxwell]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was thinkin some saltwater story....THAT IS AWSOME glen...LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Glenbow]

Thanks Max, I guess we can't all be as lucky as me. I'm thinking about starting a guiding outfit for rockfish.

[Glenbow]

Oh yeah, Brewingup it's a secret chironomid pattern that I like to call a 'chromie'. Silver body, red wrap with a black head and white poofy stuff above the head.

[SteveM]

Oh yeah, Brewingup it's a secret chironomid pattern that I like to call a 'chromie'. Silver body, red wrap with a black head and white poofy stuff above the head.

 

I'm all out of white poofy stuff; can I substitute white fluffy stuff? Is fluffy stuff good enough?

[Glenbow]

Steve,

Go right ahead, it will work fine. Unless is doesn't, then it won't.

[ggp]

Wow Glen!!!!!!....I spent a lot of time fishing the salt this year and never caught a rockfish anywhere near that size ....please share all your special rockfish hunting secrets. :lol:

[fishfreak]

Dang, that's one strong hook to be catching those. What's it made of, titanium?

[admin]

I wonder how those taste? Looks like they are all meat.

[reevesr1]

Oh yeah, Brewingup it's a secret chironomid pattern that I like to call a 'chromie'. Silver body, red wrap with a black head and white poofy stuff above the head.

 

Glen,

You being a top notch fly distributor and all, is "white poofy stuff" a technical term? I did a google search on "white poofy stuff" and got a lot of hits about hair, clothes, other such stuff. Nothing about fly tying. Am I missing something? Is it a trade secret?

[Guest bigbadbrent]

[reevesr1]

Brent,

I do believe that was the Puffy shirt, not Poofy shirt. One is for Pirates, one if for Chromie material. I'm sure Glen can fill us in on any other differences.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

haha, i tried

[Pythagoras]

I'm all out of white poofy stuff; can I substitute white fluffy stuff? Is fluffy stuff good enough?

 

LMAO....

[cdock]

Glad to see I'm not the only one. That happened to me about 6 years ago. Maybe the same one, looks like it grew a bit.

[lonefisher]

I broke off a big one the other night...... musta been a ton easy. It was a great surface take in fact he was up waiting for it when it landed...... took about 20 feet of my double taper fly line with it...... on the upside I can now cast my whole double taper line....... Anyways I know where he lives

[Glenbow]

GGP, I cannot divulge secret fishing techniques over a public forum, but feel free to PM me and we can negotiate information exchange.

 

Rickr, 'white poofy stuff' is a Glenbow Flyfishing trade secret and it is no surprise to me that you could not find it on Google. I haven't told them about it yet. Let's just say that if you managed to ever get ahold of a Lesser-spotted North American Water Snipe & had a First Nations Elder to tan the hide for you, and a Shaman to perform the rituals to change the colour to white, well I'd just say forget about it & buy some from me. I hope this clears up the mystery a little. It is no wonder that with such exotic materials on this fly pattern that I can catch unique species that most of us have only seen, but never caught. I applaud Cdock & Lone Fisher, who have tangled with this beast & Cdock even landed one too. Keep trying Lone Fisher, keep trying.

[Taco]

GGP, I cannot divulge secret fishing techniques over a public forum, but feel free to PM me and we can negotiate information exchange.

 

Rickr, 'white poofy stuff' is a Glenbow Flyfishing trade secret and it is no surprise to me that you could not find it on Google. I haven't told them about it yet. Let's just say that if you managed to ever get ahold of a Lesser-spotted North American Water Snipe & had a First Nations Elder to tan the hide for you, and a Shaman to perform the rituals to change the colour to white, well I'd just say forget about it & buy some from me. I hope this clears up the mystery a little. It is no wonder that with such exotic materials on this fly pattern that I can catch unique species that most of us have only seen, but never caught. I applaud Cdock & Lone Fisher, who have tangled with this beast & Cdock even landed one too. Keep trying Lone Fisher, keep trying.

 

Sound like someone needs to take a transplanted Texan on a ritual high plains snipe hunt out by Gleichen or Standoff... I'd do it but I'm booked full till March

[reevesr1]

I went snipe hunting once in Texas. Stood around for hours with my paper sack, but none of those suckers showed up. I thought I heard some, but didn't catch any. Couldn't find my friends afterwards either. Don't know what happened to them.