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Another day, another 30-40

Another day, another 30-40 Shad. I guess I hit it right yesterday. I got to my favorite rock at around three oclock and it was occupied. I went another 100 yards upstream to a slightly more precarious rock and started catching Shad immediatley. I stopped counting around two dozen and I continued to catch fish for another two hours. I was using the same 250 grain sinker but this time on a nine foot Loomis nine-weight. Much nicer but after a few hours, between casting and fighting fish,my forearm was pretty done. I packed it between two bags of frozen peas when I got home. Every fish I caught was on a Mickey Finn. The Loomis was not too much rod for the Shad. I hooked most of them in deep water and near the bottom. Between their hard fighting style and the current they were fine fare for the nine-weight. My only regret was that I lost what was probably an American Shad that I never got to see. It could have been a small Striped Bass, too. The water was quite clear for the Potomac and my perch was about six feet above the water surface so on the retrieve I could, for the first time, watch the fish flashing around the fly. It is amazing how many fish there were out there and how many pass at the fly on every retrieve. Since these fish do not eat on this breeding trek (so I have been told) I would love to know what motivates them to strike so gallantly at the fly. There were times when I either caught a fish or was hit hard and lost the fish on fifteen casts in a row.

Bob Abrams
McLean, Virginia

Seatrout activity

My experiences are from Norway, south coast:
April 2005: Ice has disappeared from brackish water systems. There were good conditions to fish the canals leading in to the brackish water. Especially during night time. We caught a lot of nice seatrout in the canals.

April 2006: Ice is still present on the brackish water systems. Water is cold in the canals. There are very little or no prey/food for seatrout here, since the ice is cooling down the brackish water. My experience is that it is better to fish for seatrout in the bays (not brackish water) witch are faced south. The water is warmer and the fish is feeding. Activity is, compared to 2005, on top in the evening and fading out after sunset. :wink:

Those are some lovel

Those are some lovely "flox" boxes you have there! :)

Cheers Bob!

Love this article -

Love this article - I know that I can very occasionally cast 35 yards or about 32 meters (about ten times in thirty years) as that is the length of the line that I use and I have managed to hit the backing a couple of times. That being said if I try for big distance I usually end up wearing the line and fly around my neck or attached to some other part of my body or twenty five feet up a tree on the back cast. I have even managed to catch a fish at this distance. Typically however my suggestion is to get a pair of waders that go right up to your armpits - it's generally easier to walk toward that fish under the far bank than to try to put your fly on his nose with a herculean cast.

Dear Martin,

may

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 arti

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

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

I've noticed that Pike flies

[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

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 sh

excellent picture showing all definations of the fly ,well done

Yes, I was talking coastal

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

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.

YEAH!

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!!

Bob:

Bob:
Try fishing a floating fly, like a Crease Fly, with the sink tip. I've found it to be effective on bass in fresh water. A 3 to 6 foot straight fluorocarbon leader should do the trick.

My God Ole,
This is

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

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

Slow?

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

Re: The Hickory Shad are in

[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

yea id kill for one and i wouldnt mind paying the postage please have a re run im sure youd sell out

mcfluffchucker

The Forum is Dead, Long Live the Forum!

[quote:b2460e3578="opax"]Recent threads are no longer visible in front page of the GFF site. I’m afraid that the new Forum can go more or less unnoticed though…[/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

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 art

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

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 wo

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