Fly fishing/tying...looking & THINKING outside the box.

clarkman

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While this is more directed toward toothy predator fishing, This should be applicable to virtually all fly fishing. Pay attention to the gear guys, pay attention to the fly guys, pay attention to the bait guys. It's all applicable.

 
clarkman said:
While this is more directed toward toothy predator fishing, This should be applicable to virtually all fly fishing. Pay attention to the gear guys, pay attention to the fly guys, pay attention to the bait guys. It's all applicable.

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At my father in laws this week/weekend, so this is a perfect excuse to “take a break” (we’ll maybe not the whole video). I really want to take a step forward in my flies for big toothy fish this year.
 
mcswny said:
At my father in laws this week/weekend, so this is a perfect excuse to “take a break” (we’ll maybe not the whole video). I really want to take a step forward in my flies for big toothy fish this year.
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This plus the video on fly design and theory from Musky Town on YT with Joe Goodspeed will put you light years ahead....well, also the Musky Town YT video with Eli Berant.
 
clarkman said:
This plus the video on fly design and theory from Musky Town on YT with Joe Goodspeed will put you light years ahead....well, also the Musky Town YT video with Eli Berant.
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Adding them to the list. One of my biggest issue is I need to slow down. For some reason I feel the need to crank 4 flies out rather than one fly that was actually thought through.
 
Once I sight cast a game changer fly to a good sized blacktip shark, not really expecting it to eat. I remember stripping that fly to make the natural tail movement, it swam well. I could hardly believe it when the shark sped up and inhaled that fly, jumped half way out of the water, then turboed out across the flat.
 
mcswny said:
Adding them to the list. One of my biggest issue is I need to slow down. For some reason I feel the need to crank 4 flies out rather than one fly that was actually thought through.
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This has long been my problem. As soon as I start in on any pattern my anxiety kicks in and I have a strong need to finish it quickly so I can move on to the next. No big deal on simple guide flies but definitely becomes an issue on more involved ties
 
DimeBrite said:
Once I sight cast a game changer fly to a good sized blacktip shark, not really expecting it to eat. I remember stripping that fly to make the natural tail movement, it swam well. I could hardly believe it when the shark sped up and inhaled that fly, jumped half way out of the water, then turboed out across the flat.
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I had to restrain myself several times from casting to blacktips and lemons while on the flats in Teti’aroa…I didn’t want to lose the small amount of large flies I had for GT’s…
 
Brute said:
I had to restrain myself several times from casting to blacktips and lemons while on the flats in Teti’aroa…I didn’t want to lose the small amount of large flies I had for GT’s…
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How did your trip go? I'm headed to Tikehau and Aitutaki at the end of February, and I've still got really good memories of Tetiaroa.
 
Any guess how many flies I experimented with that I did not catch any fish with much less how many patterns I tried that I would not even been trying to fish?

50 years of fly fishing is the first clue....
 
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