Guys and Gals,
Well, here's what I'm gonna try tonight when I get home --
orangish-yellow glo-bug yarn for a tail, with a deerhair wing. I
still want to keep a minnow profile somewhat because there's smallies
that frequent the water at well. I'll try to post some pictures when
I'm done. Thanks for your help!!
-->Garry
At 09:12 AM 12/1/2005, you wrote:
Having actually caught these things on big yellow ski rope flies
before I can say that you can easily remove the cord from the gar's
teeth and they will survive just fine. These things are possible one
of the toughest fish known to man. We shot one bow fishing one night
and he flopped out of the boat complete through and through shot,
two weeks latter same fish same spot shot him again and it was just
a wound almost a scar in the short two week period. We always did
most of our gar fishing with fly rod in the summer when the fish
would porpoise for oxygen, they are really fun to catch and
challenging. They are decent table fare as well when prepared correctly.
From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:01:30 -0700
Solution- try out a few things.
DonO
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From: "Reuven Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:02 PM
Subject: RE: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
> You could octopus a skirt with a flashabou or two of the thick knitting
> wool and it 'should' be easy enough to untangle. No??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of DonO
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2005 9:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
>
> Catching garfish is obviously C&R, so it would be best to use something
that
> can be cut free from the gar's teeth, so he doesn't starve to death.
>
> DonO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reuven Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
>
>
> > Couldn't 'you just use a cheap bundle of wool for the skirt? take two
> > seconds to tie up, cheap, colourful......
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Behalf Of Allen,Ginger M
> > Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2005 3:10 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [VFB] Garfish Fly Creation
> >
> > Some of our locals use a hunk of braided poly cord (macrame cord) white
> > or yellow for the fly body (kind of like a long body baracuda fly) the
> > Garfish get their teeth trapped in the cord.
>
>
