Dear Martin,
maybe a good method of calming the pike down (when out water) is just covering its eyes.Believe or not, as soon as the eyes are covered with your hand pike calms down completely (have done it myself couple of times and have seen many people doing so) and then easilly you will put the other hand/fingers in the jaw.
I like your notes very much, hope to continue with good comments.
robert
Again, a lovely article on a method that I practice and believe in more or less every time I go fishing (except salt of course!).
Ripley davenport
i have one question
does this method work with salt water bamboo rods also?
if not can you please e-mail me with the right info or tell me about a book i can buy so i can start building bamboo salt water fishing rods.
thank you
joe curran
[quote:6047fa2418="CARLOS"]I've noticed that Pike flies are quite similar to the flies we use here for Peacock Bass: Large, bright colors, etc.
This one is a kind o variation of a Wooly Bugger tyed on a heavy 3/0 saltwater hook.[/quote:6047fa2418]
Peacock Bass, that's one fish I'd love to try for on a fly. That and Tarpon.
I've noticed that Pike flies are quite similar to the flies we use here for Peacock Bass: Large, bright colors, etc.
This one is a kind o variation of a Wooly Bugger tyed on a heavy 3/0 saltwater hook.
excellent picture showing all definations of the fly ,well done
Yes, I was talking coastal seatrouts. The water is still very cold around the Danish coast, however, once it is warmer a bit, seatrouts will be vigorous again I hope. But I am not sure about the time as I have mentioned earlier. I also got one a few days ago, right at midday.
I dont know if you refer to coastal or river fishing. On the coast at this present time only a good increase in temperature would do good. I just caught a nice 55cm sea trout on Langeland this weekend when we've been blessed with a ray of sunshine for a few hours. This was the reward after days under rain, wind and very cold water temperature where I (and pretty every angler I met) didn't get any action.
I personally believe that it is more a cunjonction of several factors (water temp, luminosity, water depth, wind and current) that may play a more prominent role than just time of the day. This will off course, definitively change later when spring will(finally) hit the coastlines.
I agree with some thoughts:
1. GFF is the best Flyfishing site worldwide
2. Everlasting success for GFF!
3. I want a cap too!
4. Forum Meister: Please do something to avoid this forum to fall in the underworld! This is the greatest chance Flyfishers around the world have to "Globalize"!! I don't know, a highly visible link on the frontpage, some kind of advertiising...
Thanks again Martin, Bob & Co.!!!
You rule!!
My God Ole,
This is beautiful!
If I'd seen your creation earlier, I'd never have bought the bench I have. Believe it or not, the basic concept is similar, but the (CORRECT) size of yours is far superior to mine. This stimultaes me to do a "remodel/addition" of a sort to my tying bench, but will not ever reach what I can see is a superior approach. Thanks for sharing.
Bill
Most definitely love the sinking tip. I was using it at a local farm pond soon after I bought it to test it out for casting and such. I put on a big hellgramite immitation and caught many Largemouths. They were pounding it and I had fished the same pond a couple of days before with the same fly and got semi-skunked. It is too heavy for the five weight. I am going again this week with a nine weight. Grizz at Angler's Lie thought a 150 grain would be good for my five weight. What a great new way to fish.
Bob Abrams
McLean, Virginia
I guess this is more for Martin, but I can load everything on the site with a very fast response except for the forum. It's sometimes 10 seconds before I get a response. I would blame the forum database, since the static pages and even the gallery pages load amazingly fast. It seems like there is a DNS timeout trying to resolve the database server before it checks the host file, something like that.
Of course, you probably already know this. :roll:
Cheers
--Mike
[quote:c938d5da9b="Esox"] I was using a 250 grain Scientific Anglers sink tip with a three foot straight 15 pound mono leader. I landed eight shad and had another five or six on. [/quote:c938d5da9b]
That's nice, Bob. You like the sink-tip line now? :lol:
yea id kill for one and i wouldnt mind paying the postage please have a re run im sure youd sell out
mcfluffchucker
[quote:b2460e3578="opax"]Recent threads are no longer visible in front page of the GFF site. Iââ¬â¢m afraid that the new Forum can go more or less unnoticed thoughââ¬Â¦[/quote:b2460e3578]
I agree with the opax. Knowing the GFF staff, I figure it's just a matter of time before they get that feature back online.
Cheers
--Mike
Here are some pictures of hatching February Red stonefly. It hatches in may/april while there is still lot of snow in the ground.
What a fantastic article.
I always hear the gossip and get sucked into conversation about casting distance (which bores me silly), but now-a-days - I hear less about the actual fishing experiences.
I personally don't care for distance or what someone has said he has managed to reach. Most of my fish are caught within 15m or so. In my experience, the further the cast - if your presentation is that good after it - that's more line to lift out of the water.
Good old fashioned stalking right up to the fishes doorstep and "hey-presto"!
Great article Martin...just maybe...and that's a big maybe...we'll hear more about fishing facts than a few extra metres!
Ripley Davenport
I've been "reading" for a few years and GFF has never been anything less than impressive. Rich content and plenty of it. Cheers!
Craig White
* Oh, and if hats (or any other GFF materials) come to light, count me in.
I just love these word AND picture shows, they really help me alot not only for the fly mentioned, but for tying technique as well.--thanks
Hi Kirk,
When I know that I'm fishing on a bottom where I am going to hook a stick or two, I do a couple of things. And with the early season Largemouths feeding on my hellgramite immitations like crazy these days and the Hickory Shad run starting to get going here on the Potomac, I am fishing deep right now. OK. Two things. I tie my flies on a slightly finer hook. Just a lighter guage or two than I usually tie on. The other thing is to use a heavier tippet. I usually fish for bass with a six. Now I use and eight or a ten. This lets me pull straight back on the line and the lighter hook will straighten a tiny bit and release. It doesn't pull it completely straight. Just enough to free it. I have done this about twenty timres already this Spring and I just bend the hook into a curve with needle nose and it is fine. On the river I keep a small stone in my vest because the fly often hooks on rocks, so touching up the tip is a good idea. The only fly I have broken off this year was on an old dock post. I burried it deep and there was just no way. Another thing this lets me do is rid the pond I am fishing in of sticks. With the heavier leader you reel a lot of them in.
Bob Abrams
McLean, Virginia
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