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Fishermen/Women in the house?
- Thread starter Doodski
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I like to fly fish for bass, bluegills, crappy and trout. I also enjoy tying my own flies.
OP
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- #3
Cool! I tied flies for 12 years and used them for cutthroat, rainbow, dollies, brown trout and streamers for salmon. I also made my own spoons too. I made a wood set that could form the sheet metal to the spoon shape and I would finish it on the grinder and paint them. They worked fantastic for walleye. I want to try crappy because the fishing shows I watch regularly say they taste great. We have golden eye, sturgeon and suckers where I live that are legal to fish and a small distance out of the city there are pike, trout and perch.
Cool! I tied flies for 12 years and used them for cutthroat, rainbow, dollies, brown trout and streamers for salmon. I also made my own spoons too. I made a wood set that could form the sheet metal to the spoon shape and I would finish it on the grinder and paint them. They worked fantastic for walleye. I want to try crappy because the fishing shows I watch regularly say they taste great. We have golden eye, sturgeon and suckers where I live that are legal to fish and a small distance out of the city there are pike, trout and perch.
Crappy do taste great.
I messed around with making the smallest flies I could. Made some black gnats on some tiny hooks and actually was able to catch a minnow. Not useful or practical, but it is possible. I considered getting it mounted for a joke.
OP
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- #5
LoL... I used to use a very small hook too and tie the royal coachman for fun to a stopwatch. If I remember correctly when the equipment and supplies where laid out beforehand I had the time down to less than 3 minutes to make a nice example. I really liked tying flies and I was at it everyday at night. I traded them for polar bear hair, fishing rod, help with my car, for fishing buddies and for anybody that wanted them for free or trade.Crappy do taste great.
I messed around with making the smallest flies I could. Made some black gnats on some tiny hooks and actually was able to catch a minnow. Not useful or practical, but it is possible. I considered getting it mounted for a joke.
For anybody wanting to see a royal coachmen dry fly here is a video.
First one I learned to make. Worked great for rainbow trout.
OP
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- #7
My favorite trout fly for fishing the big rivers of South British Columbia was the Gray Wulff dry fly. I would whip up one of those flies with extra hackle and tail fluffiness and put a cicada fly on the hook and with a heavy wood bobber and about 6 feet of leader cast way out in back eddy feed lines. I let the fly and bobber circulate wherever the current took it and often was fishing with a lot of line out so to bring the fish in could take up to 25 minutes. I was getting 5-7 pounders.
