Please do.
Kev
From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:02:27 -0600
While I was sleeping last night, Dr. D and Buggs actually worked out a
pretty cool pattern approach (they rarely work together on anything). It
sounds very reasonable to me, and I want to try it this evening. I'll let
you know how it works out.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Machon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
>
> I guess it's only important to figure out what they look like to fish!
>
> Kev
>
>
> From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:58:38 -0600
>
> Kevin,
>
> To me they look like a cross between a caterpillar and an earthworm.
>
> DonO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Machon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
>
>
> > DonO:
> >
> > Although not related, they are often listed in fly fishing books in
the
> same
> > chapter as hellgrammites (dobsonflies, family corydalidae).
> >
> > Looking at the picture you noted, I see hellgrammite w/out
> appendiges......
> >
> > Just a thought
> >
> > Kev
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
> > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:05:09 -0600
> >
> > See worm-nymph photo 4th row from the bottom on right.
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/craneflies_tipulidae
> >
> > The worm-dunkers swear by these for live bait. A good fly should work
> also.
> > Working on it.
> >
> > DonO
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: DonO
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 5:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: Rock Worm - DonO
> >
> >
> > JimmyD,
> >
> > Thanks. I don't know if these were tied to imitate the specific
worm
> I
> > saw, but my version would be a very clean, non-fuzzy fly- like a
garden
> > worm. If there was a sinking foam, it would be perfect shaped in a
> tapered
> > segmented tube. I'm thinking of a tiny rolled laytex cigar-shaped
deal,
> > tying just the head to a small hook and letting the body move in the
> > current.
> >
> > DonO
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jimmy D. Moore
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:27 PM
> > Subject: [VFB] Re: Rock Worm - DonO
> >
> >
> > On page 234 Perrault's Std. Dictionary of Fishing Flies I found
two
> > patterns for the Rock Worm. Neither of these were the green version.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > JIMMY D
> >
> > Fly - Rock Worm
> > Body: Tan linen thread
> > Hackle: Badger soft collar
> > NOTE: Rhyachophila lobifera
> >
> > Fly - Rock Worm
> > Body: Black dyed ostrich herl
> > Hackle: Badger hair spun as hackle
> > Head: Black thread.
> >
> > DonO wrote:
> >
> >
> > Met a guy dunking worms with his 8 yr old son, and struck up a
> > friendship. They were using Colorado meat rigs, i.e. fly rods with
> > automatic reels and mono line, with split shot and either a crawler or
a
> > rock worm. I gave the little guy some flies which included a scud,
and
> he
> > proceeded to catch a 3-lb sucker and an almost 5lb carp on the scud.
The
> > night before he caught and landed a 2.7lb brown on a rock worm larva.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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