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sydb
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 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: Most successful fly of the summer |
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Ok guys what fly - either wet or dry or lure - has caught the most fish for you this summer?
Mine would have to be the wee size 20 black F fly as tied and endorsed by Firey Brown
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fossil-fish
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Yes Syd, I would have to say another of Firey's creations, a hare's ear c.d.c shuttlecock. Either flies that firey has given me himself, or my own blatant copies. One 'improvement' or simply change that I have made is to tie them on a heavier coarse fishing type hook instead of the very fine dry fly hooks that the originals were tied on. Drennan size twenty carbon specimens are my present iron of choice, they are a little bit more suitable for Woodford's bigger rainbows.
The only patterns that have come anywhere near close have been buzzers in either black or bright green.
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Watty's Rock
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hoppers done it for me over the summer (in fact all season) in both claret and black.  And, a few patterns from oul FB were successful for me as well, hare's ear CDC, the  "special" shipmans, don't want to give too much away without his permission.  |
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sydb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: Best fly this summer |
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| Ok Wattys so which one??? |
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Watty's Rock
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Would have to say the hopper.  |
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fossil-fish
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Special Shipman's eh, we would need to hear more about that.
Shipman's is a fly I don't really get on with, I am never sure if the are floating or sinking and I can not see them on the water.
However I took a fish this evening on a small green one after several refusals to my usual c.d.c.s. Must have been the slight differnce in the presentation that done the trick.
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Straid Bumble
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| A quill cruncher and quill buzzer have been my most successful flies on the stocked waters and a Claret stimulator on the Erne and Melvin. |
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sydb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: best fly this summer |
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Straid whats the difference between a quill buzzer and an ordinary buzzer?  |
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fossil-fish
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: best fly this summer |
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| sydb wrote: | | Straid whats the difference between a quill buzzer and an ordinary buzzer? |
Syd,
Stripped quill, ie peacock herl with the flue removed, can be used as body material for buzzers and other flies. Makes for a very realistic effect. Found this example on another site. Shows the overall effect quite well.
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sydb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Best fly this summer |
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Cheers FF it definitely looks good anyway
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