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Submitted by poppersmoke on

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Thanks for posting this video, very instructive. What size hook do you use for fishing this fly on the Poudre?

Sebastian,

This debate comes up ever so often. The article about bubble float fishing that I republished recently has a lengthy comment track about the same subject - http://globalflyfisher.com/fish-better/fishing-a-bubble

Whenever people talk about Czech nymphing, ceramic nymphs, Perdigon nymphs and even just fishing with a weighted fly, someone will dispute that it's "real" fly fishing.

I usually stay out of the debate. Where does the boundary go? You have to cast the fly with a line? Well, there's no casting in Tenkara or Czech nymphing.
How far to you have to cast? Is a roll cast a "real" cast? Or dapping?
Is a massive, solid saltwater baitfish fly tied with foam and epoxy a fly?
Is a red hook that looks like a blood worm a fly and are you really fly fishing when you fish that?
Is it fly fishing when you troll a large NE streamer behind a boat?

I'm not going to be the judge of all these cases. My personal opinion is that fly fishing is a very wide array of fishing types, and certainly not only when you cast a light fly overhead using a classic fly line.

But the debate is not going to end there, I'm sure.

Martin

Submitted by Sebastien Vermolen on

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With all respect for the tenkara enthousiasts, I wonder if you can call it fly fishing. It is done with a fly and it really is fishing, but it is as much fly fishing as fishing with a spinning rod and a buldo with some flies attached to it. Would you call playing golf so, if you are only putting and only play on the greens? In my opinion making a well placed cast to the other side of the river with a fly rod, is unquestionable part of fly fishing as well.

Submitted by Raymond M Hajnik on

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This has been my primary pattern in Western PA for over 50 years
changes I have made as follows:
#10 streamer hook with 10 to 12 wraps of .015 lead
recently I have tied smaller versions using MINK and # 8 using BEAVER
same pattern but with a different look / color in the water.
thanks for posting by far my favorite fly pattern.

For me ...... this pattern has a "too" long of a head on it, but the pattern that I had used as a reference indeed had a really long head tied by a inuit Indian many moons ago and according to what our Host Darrel Mc. had told me, that was how the original pattern had been tied. How ever one chooses to tie it.... it sure is a good searching pattern for many species of fish lookin' for a quick meal.

Submitted by Mr X on

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You can not do Rais in boiling water. Yes the heat shrink tubing may shrink, but the soul purpose is to MELT the outter plastic coating of the fly line.

Submitted by John Martin on

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HI
Thanks for the great video. I have been using this fly for some years now but have run
into a problem. Store bought Dubbing labeled dirty orange is now very orange and does not
look like the dubbing in your video or what I have used in the past. I have found
the hits on the fly have significantly reduced. DO you mix your dubbing to create dirty orange
or have a source that still supplies the same dubbing color. Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards

JohnM

Sam,

I certainly respect you view, and I fully agree that setting a hook in a fish must be painful for the fish - although not in any way comparable to our concept of "painful". But you are still right: if you do not want to inflict that kind of pain or discomfort on the fish, don't fish, period.

And I also agree that damaging the fish will indeed increase the risk of infection for the single fish. Any wound will do that weather it's inflicted by a hook, a landing net, human hands, a predator, contact with a rock during spawning or whatnot. But I cannot understand how this can "spread fish kill" unless you mean something else than most people when you say fish kill.

The term is usually used for fish dying off in huge numbers, typically due to some environmental problem like pollution or lack of oxygen and is usually not connected with wounds or bacteria (unless of course the pollution is bacteria, which it very rarely is).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_kill

So I fail to see the connection there.

And it probably won't come as a surprise to you that I don find it OK to "either fish to get the food or just don't fish at all". I fish for food and keep fish for the pot, but once I have what I want, I don't stop fishing. I take the liberty of keeping on and releasing the fish I might catch after having taken what I want. It's my choice, and as long as it's legal and even commonplace, I'll most likely keep on doing it.

Martin

Submitted by sam smiles on

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catch and release is painful, damaging and can spread fish kill via bacteria.
now, either fish to get the food or just don't fish at all.
ok?

And thanks, Dave Mcfluffchucker! Was enjoyment for me too, so not hard work at all.. :)

Jared,

It's a simple hobby knife. One of those that have a blade you slide out and break off one piece at the time to get a new and fresh tip. You can essentially use anything to place the eyes: tweezers, a needle, a knife like here. Whatever you have and what works for you.

Martin

Submitted by Grant Holzwort… on

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Martin,

Couldn't agree more! I try to remember one thing and one thing only: happy wife means a happy fisherman. Those honey-do's that are hanging over all of us. I take care of a few of them the week before a trip. I always, always ask my wife if she wants to go. I know she'll say no but I always ask. I also take my son every chance I get.

I've never left her mad...ever. And, if possible I check in while on the trip.

Works for me.

Submitted by Phil Ewanicki on

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The world record Coho Salmon was caught in New York State, and many hefty Chinooks also. Not as pretty as Patagonia, but airfare and lodging is considerably more reasonable - and the money stays in the States.

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