What's Catching You Fish?
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Divad
Whitefish
Materials Per Fly: 26 schlappen feathers, 1/10 a fox tail, and 2 bags of dubbing.
Kidding, that is one freaking cool fly!!!!Do you troll it or cast?
G_Smolt
Legend
The fly is a pretty easy tie - it's a 10/0 Gami Octopus on doubled 80# spectra lashed to a 55mm Waddington shank, with an additional loop of 80# wire for stiffness. After that, there's 12 birdfur rachis, 4 schlappen, and 4 grizzly hen hackles. 30 wraps of .035 lead wire on the shank, and the body (back to front) is 4 turns EP crafty brush, the 2x repeated 10 turns white homemade nylon brush and 2 full spey marabou, capped off with 5 turns of white ep crafty brush.Materials Per Fly: 26 schlappen feathers, 1/10 a fox tail, and 2 bags of dubbing.
Do you troll it or cast?
Fished it in about 60' of water on a 12wt with a homemade 35' 670gr head, and needed a big wad of tungsten putty at the tippet knot to sink the fly as the same rate as the head. Not trolled, cast side current and allowed to swing, then a slooow retrieve to keep the fly within the zone.
I ended up landing 5, but they were all similar size. I need to find a reef with a bigger size cohort and try it there...
I know, I know, but I had to keep one.
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Divad
Whitefish
The actual f*** kind of sorcery are you into! Here I was thinking you downriggered it. I’m guessing that homemade head is at least T14 to get you to 60’.
I’m stupidly intrigued by this. I want a video. Hell I want on the boat.
I want a sbs and then I want to morph it into something for bass
First day I've really experienced color preference. Black and olive were slow for me but I put on a brown willy and bingo.
Four F...ing pelicans showed up today, to go with 3 osprey working the lake. That would interrupt things for periods.
Four F...ing pelicans showed up today, to go with 3 osprey working the lake. That would interrupt things for periods.
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G_Smolt
Legend
Hahaha it's just flyfishin', really. No sorcery involved, just a lot of years learning the whens and wheres of my local fisheries, and a friend with a day off AND a charter boat loaded with bitchin' electronics...
The head is 30' of t20 mated up to a Rio OutBound Custom (t14/int) with all but 5' of the t14 chopped off. I tried to get the outbound (mono core) welded to the t20 (dacron(?) core), but the mono core of the outbound started to distort and lose strength juuuust as the covers were blending.
I ended up going loop-to-loop with 65# braided mono loops, a few nail knots, and a shitpile of uv knotsense - slightly annoying when it was going thru the guides, but oh, well.
I'm gonna set up another 12wt with 30' of t20 and 100yds of 65# spectra as running line the next time we go out - pretty sure I can hit 100' in about 90 seconds with that setup, as the intermediate running line on my original setup was a bit of a hindrance and was kiting once the tide started really moving.
I'm looking forward to getting my ass handed to me by the 60-100lb fish that start to show in July, although I would like to put a few line iterations thru the bantamweight fish before I move up a few divisions.
Divad
Whitefish
I like the homemade chopped up setup, I haven’t started playing with it yet salt but I can tell it’s soon. Hell just to get down for Kokanee it might happen but heck those guys, 60-100lb 1:1 on a fly rod is awesome.
Thank you the input you put in the reply, it’s a type of fishing I never have seen or read about. I am intrigued a lot by this.
If you go Hollow Ace for the running line it is a hollow core and you can finger trap your head to it for seamless connection. Bout 2 or 3x spectra though.
You must like changing flies a lot more then me
Same.....almostI want a sbs and then I want to morph it into something for bass
The thin mint knock off I posted in the vice yesterday just tore it up today
If I'm only going to take one line, full sink line is the way to go on a daily basis I think
Felt like I was the USS Lexington and the sky was filled with Kates and Oscars
The wife asked for one for dinner, and after her day yesterday I said I'd see what I could do. Got several so kept this one and called it. Probably the last one on purpose, water is getting pleasantly warm.
Bail before the storm hit and the wind pins me or I become a lightning rod.
If I'm only going to take one line, full sink line is the way to go on a daily basis I think
Felt like I was the USS Lexington and the sky was filled with Kates and Oscars
The wife asked for one for dinner, and after her day yesterday I said I'd see what I could do. Got several so kept this one and called it. Probably the last one on purpose, water is getting pleasantly warm.
Bail before the storm hit and the wind pins me or I become a lightning rod.
Crawbugger
Steelhead
Pelicans photobombing.
Fished my local reservoir with cutties and rainbows. Caught a nice 16” lahontan cutthroat trolling a 4” long grey ghost streamer. If using a wiggle disc in front of the fly is cheating then i cheated!
No pix unfortunately.
I have been tying up the classics for trolling which has been fun.
No pix unfortunately.
I have been tying up the classics for trolling which has been fun.
Love the muddlers!
They wanted micro leeches today in mostly darker colors.
Sometimes the fish wins. Had a good one on for a few seconds.
Sometimes the fish wins. Had a good one on for a few seconds.
tkww
Steelhead
Nice fish. You need some better hooks, though!
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