Thanks Mark... Maybe I can hint to the wife and kids for a fly tying kit for fathers day (although that ALREADY gave me a new depth/fish finder as an early prezzie this past week LOL).. Cause I have access to a lot of feathers/hair etc... around here.. All that you mentioned, then I have bluebirds, cardinals, jay birds, robins etc that drop a lot of feather around our bird feeders, and I have a goat, and have plenty of deer and turkey hunting friends who can get me all the hair I want.. I wonder if the hair off my short haired (stiff hair) Chihuahua would work???? LOL, Thanks again, Chuck... who is off to practice his fly casting techniques right now between thunderstorms
----- Original Message ----- From: "mark romero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Any More Bream Flyfishers here??? > Welcome aboard Chuck. I think the advice you got from Jeff is about as good > as you'll find. Nothing beats a soft hackle and a weighted one is really > good in a situation like yours. Putting that bead, wether it be brass, > copper, silver, gold, glass, plastic, or tungston, behind the hackle really > helps as well. The hackle is forced to pulsate in the water and the bead > represents an air bubble. Tye them on a scud hook, in different sizes. Put a > little tag down at the rear end if you like. Use rabbitt, fox, squirrel, > mink, beaver, seal, muskrat, goat, or even a synthetic like SLF if you want, > for the body. Just about anything works. You can rib it if you want to get > fancy. And partridge, grouse, starling, hen back, quinea, chucker, jay, > again, almost anything works for a wing/collar. Mix and match to your > liking. It's endless. mark > > >From: Jeff Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [VFB] Any More Bream Flyfishers here??? > >Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:18:37 -0700 (PDT) > > > >Hey, Chuck. Welcome aboard the VFB. I live in Kansas > >and as you might imagine, we don't have any trout here > >either. The bluegill are a big bfavorite of mine as > >well. When the gills go deep, I go to small wooly > >buggers in assorted colors and like a little flash on > >them. Hare's Ears also seem to do well. A real killer > >fly is a bead thorax soft hackle in chartreuse that I > >got from Del Roberts. Basically, put a gold or silver > >bead on the hook wrap a chartreuse floss body up to > >the bead leaving enough room in front of it for a > >couple turns of soft hackle and a thread head. The > >bead helps gets the fly down and usually gets hit as > >it's dropping. If we can get John Ridderbos to chime > >in, he could add a lot to this topic. -Jayhawk Jeff > > > >--- Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Folks: I live in N.E. but more like E Central as I'm > > > 60 miles due East of Birmingham, AL, and the only > > > trout here are a few in the mountain stream, but it > > > is ALL Nat'l forrest and of course, all but > > > impossible to get to without hiking fo rdays, and > > > with my bad back and hip it's just not an option.. > > > So, I flyfish for bream and sunfish (cause in Bama > > > there have been four pound bluegill caught NO fish > > > tale there LOL)...Anyway, went to my favorite > > > watershed here yesterday afternoon to try out my > > > early fathers day fish/deptfinder, and the surface > > > water temp is about 84.5 degrees, and 85 degrees > > > drives the bluegills etc back into deeper (cooler) > > > water.. So, I didn't catch anything much cause I > > > have been using bream killer "water bug" flies, and > > > tearin em up on the bed.. But, now, any suggestions > > > to pull em out of the deeper water??? I know I'll > > > have to go to a sinking wet fly, but which types > > > would be best??? Thanks in advance.. Chuck da Newbie > > > Flyfisher > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > >
