Welcome to the board Jean, it is always good to get another international participant, it adds to the banter. Don't take us too seriously we tend to beat each other up a little, it is all in fun.
Mike M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jean françois daures Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Re: Fly fishing in France Dear Jimmy, All right. But I have been furious to read on this forum things like : "going to war without french soldiers , is like going to deer Shooting without his accordeon" from a great intellectual and humanist : Donald Rumsfeld. Sorry, Lafayette was a courageous soldier, and he helped human beings to get freedom, somewhere... The "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen" has been written in France, and not at the ice age. All this had to be said! Now, about fly fishing! There is a lot of rivers in France, and three major kinds of streams : - Chalk streams in Normandy (typical) and more generally North-West of the country (big trouts) - Granitic streams in Bretagne and center of the country (numerous trouts) - Mountain streams in Alpes Chain, and Pyrennees chain (small trouts),and pre-mountain streams in Jura and Vosges (wonderfull zebra trouts, and a lot of graylings there). I live in Normandy : Here are somme patterns that I like to use : At the beginning of the season. Dry : Tup's indispensable, Quill Gordon, hare's ear, Wet : Pallaretta, Favorite de carrere, orange partidge, greenwell's glory, march brown For Green Drake (on 8 to 12 hook) in may and june Only big nymphs, no wet flies (sometimes bucktails and streamers as imitations of larves (petite bête = Ephemera Danica bug) under the surface Submay, and grey andelle (or brown lèvrière) in the film. Colonel Ogareff, and PANAMA for spinner. Plumeau at night, getting the fish on noise Rouloir as a spent. For sedge: Only two patterns for me : - 420(424) aimé Devaux, late (dead probably ~~ 1985), professionnal fly tyer in Champagnolles (Jura) Summer : Nymph fishing : sawyer pheasant tail, skues nymphs (essentially muskrat, small hackles in brown breast hungarian partridge). Late summer and fall: Only Dry : Pont-audemer - Président billiard (palmer) - tricolore de bresson (palmer) What about the opportunities : I think that there is a list of "guide de pêche", each one helps to fish on three or four rivers, and they are a lot of^people around the country. Lakes, in france are not interesting for the flyfisherman, because they are fished by baits or spinning essentially for Pike, Perch, carp,and food fish. A good adress would be Conseil Supérieur de la Pêche, in Paris. If you need, I can seek for this one precisely, and for some others I can't help you more on the bank of the streamside because I am an invalid, and quite ill (liver transplantation ans coolon cut off), and it's not easy to undertake or promise to be ready as you come. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: Fly fishing in France > Jean, my original post was in hopes that there was a Frenchman or two > on the VFB list. I'm serious about fly fishing in France. I hear all > kinds of stuff about UK fly fishing, Germany, and even South Africa, > but nothing about fly fishing in France. As it turned out, my simple > question opened a Pandora's Box. I'd really like to know about the fly > fishing opportunities. What streams/lakes do you fish. What kinds of > flies/patterns do you use, etc. > > Cheers, > > JIMMY D > > -- > ******************************************************************* > Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past VP. Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist, half-assed Texan and collector of classic bamboo fly rods and classic golf clubs > > Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", © > > JIMMY D's Fly Fishing Website: > http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index. html > ******************************************************************** > "Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback." > > Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004] > ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------- > Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > >
