I won't say anymore about the Mac/PC debate other than to say that I
don't disagree with any of the reasons PC people gave for picking
their platform of choice.
Now back to fishing:
My fishing buddy continues to have success with new flies. He and
another friend of his just finished a 3-day jaunt which finished at
the Green river, and they caught over 100 fish between them wade
fishing for about 5 hours.
Now, if you have ever fished the Green below Flaming Gorge Dam
(Utah) you might know that it can be very frustrating. The fish are
everywhere and usually visible, and are so used to fishermen that
they don't seem to be bothered much by anything you do... they just
won't take your fly. I have NEVER had a great day on the Green, but
you can have them if you do things right, and this fishing buddy
seems to have figured it out (he had another of his "fish every cast
days" fishing just up stream from me several years ago... I caught
two, he caught 25).
His technique? He always fishes to a specific feeding fish, and he
uses the right fly. On this trip he used a small, traditionally tied
scud (size 20-22) or a small simple soft hackle fly as a dropper
off a larger, bright orange scud, using the typical strike indicator
method. (If he has a good view of the fish, he watches the orange
scud, otherwise he watches the strike indicator).
He caught most on the soft hackle, which was a guide fly he found on
the internet (I don't know where). Like all guide flies it is easy
to tie and apparently very effective.
Here is the recipe:
Hook: size 20 Daiichi ,
Bead: bright silver tungsten(small to fit the hook)
Thread: gray flat waxed nylon thread (the thinest you can get your
hands on)
Tail: Light dun hen feathers
Body: Thin and tapered using thread wraps
Soft Hackle: Undersized Light Dun Hen neck hackle.
The hardest part about tying this fly is wrapping the small dun soft
hackle. It is sized like an undersized dry fly, tied just behind the
bead, then pushed back with the tie of wraps. You get it using those
small neck hackles that a very fragile, and you have to be careful to
not get two many thread wraps as you are tying it off.
I think it is taken as a gray scud by the fish.
I am tying up a bunch and will try them out on my next trip to the
Green.
On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Tom Davenport wrote:
I missed the original post, but I am a true blue Mac Man and will
continue to pay $300 dollars more than I need to for hardware for
the privilege of using the best software on the planet.
But I confess I salivated a little when my son built himself a new
PC from scratch with amazing specs and low cost. It is a luxury
Mac people may never enjoy.
For you that think we Mac people are nuts, just be glad that you
don't know what you are missing...
Tom
On Aug 22, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Allan Fish wrote:
I ain't a-gonna get into this, since 'tain't fishing related.
Other than to say that the wife of one of my good fishing buddies
who lives near Wacky, TX, obviously has much more common sense
than her hubby.
<VBG>
a.
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