Hmmm! Fish in that size are vulnerable and an integral part of an isolated environment. There's no fight and they are too small to eat, so fly fishing on them seems pretty thoughtless. Leave the fish alone, use these woods for hiking and go fish some bass instead.
Don, that Footer's Special was a great looking fly. You did a fantastic job on it!
The Grannom hatches on parts of the Avon last April really had to be seen to be believed. Trout were gorging themselves, picking the flies off weed and obstructions even in the fastest water, as well as off the top. They were interested in little else except the occasional olive and hawthorn.
Peter Laurie
Great little fly that Martin, catches lots of fry feeding fish for me.
You know I've been following along all year, so I thought I'd pass this along. If I mentioned it previously please disregard this as we Geezers tend to forget things.
Dave Bargeron from Blood Sweat & Tears has a book coming out called Jazz Flies. Here's the link to his site.
http://www.davebargeron.com/jazzflies.htm
Kind of fits in with what you're doing.
Mark
Hi whats going on Grandaddy ? Ilove you ! Have you made some new flies yet? How is GG & Dylan doing?
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That's another nice one. The colors are great.
This was filmed during a Hex (Hexagenia Limbata) hatch.
One of the most amazing opportunities you can experience while flyfishing.
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I not only learned fly fishing from Trevor, I also fish with him regularly in still waters and rivers. My first trout caught on dry fly was on a Morgans Ear and since then I always carry some in my flybox. I caught trouts and graylings in almost every water and weather condition on this fly during the last seasons. I fished this fly very successfully all time from the beginning of the trout season right into some winter grayling sessions.
Like Peter I am using Trevor s Javelin flylines in 5 weight for rivers and a seven weight for most of my stillwater fishing and can strongly recommend them.
Now I am really looking foward to fish with Trevor again on a beautiful chalkstream next weekend.
That's why my grandfather thought there was no hope for me, I would catch Salmon on the Cains with a yellow bodied Wholly worm with a red tail of course... size 6 or 8.. it was of course because I could not afford full dressed Salmon flies..and had to hitch hike up highway 123 to get there..
great memories of that river!!
A wonderful tie of a great streamer.
I used to have the same snagging problem. The best way I know to avoid snagging on rocks is to "lead" your flies and indicator through the stream, that is, by keeping the rod tip ahead of the flies. The second I let my rod fall behind my flies, I risk hanging up, over and over. By leading, there are fewer hangups by far, and most of them you can simply pull on the line from upstream and you will pop off. I do not understand why this technique works, but it does. I learned it from an excellent guide in Pennsylvania named Tom Baltz.
Thank you all for the nice comments on my hopper-pattern.
Tom Biesot.
Hey Bob
The hooks arrived today in the mail and I compared them to the hooks I have here. They are the same hook as the VMC B-17 right down the minute detail. I believe that Charlie Mann had told me that they used to be a Mustad hook at one time. I'll check with him next time I call him.
Thanks for sending the hooks.
That's a very nice looking fly! More understated than many foam hopper patterns. Thanks.
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