From: Tony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [VFB] Patterns and Presentation Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:47:55 -0600
My guess is a swimming nymph hook. Tony
Tom Davenport wrote:
Actually I remembered that I had a picture of a fish with this hook in its mouth.
Here is the story. I was introduced a month ago to a Japanese engineer newly arrived to work at Autoliv, a Utah company that manufactures air bags for most Japanese and many American cars. This fellow spoke very little English but loved to fly fish. I took him to the Weber and soon discovered that he had little or no experience fly fishing on a river, but he was very bright and a quick learner and ended up catching four Browns on this ugly fly. He was very enthusiastic and would shout out "Fish on!" three or four times while landing his fish. This was about all the English fly fishing vocabulary he had but it made for a very fun fishing trip for me and I was glad he caught fish (I caught a half dozen myself).
Anyway, see if you can figure our what hook style it is from the picture.
I think I wrapped this particular hook with some bright pink nylon plastic craft yarn, I now simply lash a piece of micro chenille along the full length of the top of the hook. This is a very fast tie and the fish don't care that a bit that the hook is showing.
The link is http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd/PhotoAlbum18.html
On Nov 2, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Tony Spezio wrote:
Tom, A little more info on this hook.??????? Tony
Tom Davenport wrote:
This will probably get buried with all of the other posts on this subject, but how about the presentation the fly itself makes? Up until this year I was certain that the San Juan Worm tied with a piece of Ultra Chenille lashed to a hook with both tips burned to a taper was the only one to use. i had seen versions of the San Juan made by wrapping a Mustad "All Around" style hook (this is a hook that has a large hump in its bend and then the barbed part bends abruptly and points straight toward the eye of the hook) with vinyl, but figured something that stiff would never work. It just seemed to be common sense that that the chenille would wave in the water and look "wormy".
Tom Davenport
Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd Webshots Albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav
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