On 22 Jul, 2005, at 8:32, Reuven Segal wrote:
Will do...please send me some contact details sometime.
See my sig line...
Could you post me some info on the relevant flies, etc. I would
love to tie
somee up before I arrive.
As you may be aware, we have no trout (well, technically that is not
true, as there are put and take fisheries, and there is lake
Oostvoorne, and there are some small lowland streams in the eastern
and southern part of the country that do have occasional stray trout,
or even small resident populations, but practically speaking Holland
has no trout streams).
Major fly-targeted species are rudd, orfe, asp (being a recent
'addition' to the western European ichtyofauna, that migrated
downstream the Rhine after the opening of the Rhein-Danube canal),
and pike, with many native species as minor, occasional or accidental
targets.
For rudd, use EHC/CDC&Elk, large palmers, or Petitjean's CDC loop
flies for dries, or any large beadhead, or PT nymph for wets.
Orfe will take black palmers or spiders for dries, black spiders just
below the surface, or fluorescent nymphs in coloured water.
Asp will take baitfish patterns of about 2 inch size.
Pike will take huge baitfish patterns (or actually just huge bulky
gaudy flies); my standard pike fly is a bucktail tandem streamer with
a 1/0 trailer and a 6/0 or 8/0 main hook. Pike are toothy critters,
so you'll need a wire trace.
Cheers
Henk
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