Nick look at this https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/1389234b40881e07
Mike On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Niclas (Gmail) <[email protected]>wrote: > Last week I tried out a new fly that I (just because it was so ugly) > bought earlier this summer in a fly shop up north. As ugly as it was, it > turned out to be quite effective. When everything else I tried (including > the Chili Pepper) struck out, this one seemed to work. But a couple of days > ago, when Teresa and the girls were with me, I lost one in a tree almost > immediately after losing the first fish. I didn't want to risk losing the > second (last) one before I had copied it, so I chose something else that > had a little of the same features - very visible, very slowly sinking... > and ugliness: a white bugger with a bunch of round rubber legs for tail. > MAN was that a good choice!!! It turned out to be a fish magnet. > Before they had even left I had lost another fish... and at the end of the > day I had caught three, lost another two, and missed three or four takes > (and naturally lost the two white flies). Considering that I was only there > for three hours (and that also other club members say that it seems slow > there now)... it was something out of the ordinary. If it wasn't the lake > that suddenly had a very good day, this will probably be my new goto fly. > (Sorry Tony... the Chili Pepper is out. LOL) > > I'm quite sure I got these rubber tailed buggers from someone at the > VFB, two black and two white (unfortunately now lost), either as bonus > flies in a swap or along with one of the "kick off" boxes which were sent > to me when I first got stuck in here. They have been sitting untouched in > my flybox for quite a while so I can't remember which. Last night I was > going to tie up more of the white ones but even though I thought that the > thinnest rubber legs I had were very thin... these ones were even thinner. > I took a picture for comparison: The left fly is the original black > version. The right fly is my (as it turned out: fat tailed) test replica... > with Dan Bailey's rubber legs *size Small*. > > Anyone who recognizes this fly and can tell me what kind of rubber legs > they are? > > Pictures 'fly.jpg' and 'tails.jpg' attached. Direct links in case they > don't get through: > http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc307/runarsson/fly.jpg > http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc307/runarsson/tails.jpg > > /Nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
