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Small trout streams

Usually fish small trout streams in Western Maryland,USA. Made this pattern a wet fly (small # 8) with hollographic tinsel and black ICE DUB instead of chinille. Worked well.

Bob,
I've been havi

Bob,
I've been having difficulty with signing a graphite rod that I've just made (have spent more time on the signature and data than it took to make the entire rod, ...pretty sad).
1. I was wondering how long it takes for the 'Gelly Roll' gold writing to dry enough so that it doesn't end up dissolving into the Krylon, or is this not an issue? I have tried using a PENTEL Hybrid K105x gold gel pen, but the ink didn't seem to dry enough. When I tried coating it with U40 Super Urethane I found that some of the gold emulsion dissolved into the urethane.
2. Have you ever tried spray-on polyurethane without the Krylon fixative? Do you know if this works?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Hi Ripley and all,

Hi Ripley and all,

More information about fly fishing in Lithuania you will find in www.ffw.lt website.

Tight Lines
tom www.ffw.lt

Mick,

Thanks for

Mick,

Thanks for the link to the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, which I didn't know. Considering it "a tragic oversight" might be a little harsh, but the link is there now.

Martin

I think that the abs

I think that the absence of the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust link (www.tarbone.org) on this site is a tragic oversight. THe info on that site about biology and the state of the fishery is up to date and crucial for anyone who cares about these fish (all 8+ species of bonefish!).

Thank you Rolandas,

Thank you Rolandas,
I remember during the summit 2008 that you called on all of us to go with you to Kola, what happened? Why didn't you go?
Is it the aftereffects of the liqueur? :-)

Rolandas, we are tr

Rolandas, we are true friends. To Greece I with your wife can go, and you drive to fish :-)

love this site lots

love this site lots of great patterns!

Mindaugai,

well d

Mindaugai,

well done and congrats with first article on GFF

Les, Nan,

i have

Les, Nan,

i have another crazy idea, but my wife says if i do it then she goes to Greece. More less ok for me, but i have dilema- my kids!

can i send over to you my 5 years old Ema and 7 month Markas. I remember you have very good experience with kids?

Hope for support :)

cheers

if it cant be tied i

if it cant be tied in 20 minutes or less.And is very stiff,I find realistics realistically wrong for fishing.I don't want to spend an hour or two tying a fly that i may lose in the stream,a tree,etc,where i could have tied a perfectly acceptable impressionistic fly that would catch more fish,not fisherman,and not care to lose,cause i could wrap one in no time.All that said your flies r beautiful and r very artistic.They should be displayed in a shadow box and take the impressionistics to the stream.
my 2 cents

Hi
Although I'm onl

Hi
Although I'm only starting to tie Grey Fred, a trick I used with other flies was to put the KF in a loop of Uni Cord and twist it together. It makes a good rib and resists teeth well.
Tie in all 4 ends both kf and both ends of cord and twist that.
Looking forward to using Grey Fred for smallmouth bass.
Paul

wow! super photos.

wow! super photos. thanks for the tips.
Jeremy

thanks

Martin, it's absolutly clear now.

Thanks for your reply.

BTW: During first half of March, a lot of flies from your site will be tested in waters of Denmark :-)

Pike

Pike

You understand Danish! Great!

Yes, Fredningsperiode is protected period.
Helårligt is all year.

And yes, the rule goes for colored fish in the protection period and fishing in and near the estuaries in the protected period for certain streams and all year for other streams - typically the larger ones.

Hope this clears things up.

Martin

Rolandus,

What ca

Rolandus,

What can we say?
Crazy as ever, but we love you. Even in Lithuania surely nobody does it quite like you. You stop the world from getting dull.

Regards,
Les and Nan

Restriction and limitations

Martin, thanks. You are absolutly right, I am really interested in sea trouts.

So according to your explanations, the below mentioned limitations mean:

Fredningsperiode:
Helårligt
- fishing is forbiden all the year in marked area (radius)

and

Fredningsperiode:
16. september - 15. januar
- fishing is permited all year, but all coloured fish caught in the mentioned period must be released.

I have problem with danish words Helårligt and Frednings :-) Periode would be probably the same as english period\ :-)

Thanks a lot

Pike,

Pike,

If you are talking sea trout, which I guess you are, there is a restriction on the fishing between September 16th and January 15th. But the restriction is simply that you have to release any colored fish you catch - meaning pre or post spawn fish.
The silver fish you can keep, and if you fish catch and release you can fish as much as you want. Small fish under 40 centimeters are always protected and must be released.

Please also notice that some estuaries are closed in the same period (stream mouth and a 500 meter radius) and some are closed all year. These are probably all marked on your maps.

Martin

Thanks Martin,
We

Thanks Martin,
We will experiment with flies farther. Yesterday was the grip on Zonker, white with red head.
Ivan

Hi Bruce,

for sur

Hi Bruce,

for sure you can use the motor. It depends a little on your abilities, how you cope with the coating consistence and the brush itself and on the rotation speed. From my experience too slow is not that good, everything above 5 or 6 rpm is okay. As bigger the diameter is as more "ground speed" you are doing, you will feel the difference in that moving along the rod. Test it with the motor, if it does not suit you switch to old school. I personally like it to work with a motor which is doing 6 to 8 rpm for coating purposes.

Rgds,
Ole

Mark, Leo, Michel,

Mark, Leo, Michel,

the small rubber band constructions that you can see in the pictures are no witchcraft and easily done:

Take some standard rubber rings like they are being used in offices, households and often also to keep together rod blanks. Depending on blank diameter different lengths might be correct. Usually I make out of one rubber band 2 or 3 strips, longer ones for the strippers in the buttsection and shorter ones further to the rod tip. The white stuff are very short pieces cut from cotton bud tubings. Melt both ends slightly to get a shape similar like you want to prepare a tube fly tubing. To avoid burnt fingers I put the tubing on the tip of some fly tying scissors. Give half a minute or so to cool down, stays longer soft and hot then it seems. To pull the rubber bands through the ear bud rings use some sewing thread or fly tying thread.

One more hint: When you want to move a guide up or down the blank for corrected placement lift the guide feet off the blank and do not move them directly on the blank to avoid scratches. Also guide feet which have been brought into a good shape might scratch the blank.

Hope everything is clear so far.

Rgds,
Ole

Mark, Leo, Michel,

Mark, Leo, Michel,

Ole hasn't replied to this yet, but I'm sure he will.

But as far as I can see this is simply pieces of rubber band and some kind of narrow tube or pearl. It should be easy to replicate with exactly that - fat rubber bands from any office supply and pearls or tubing from any craft store - or even small pieces of fly tube from your flyshop.
Cut the rubber and the tube into suitable pieces, thread some mono through the tubes and pull the rubber through in a loop. Make sure the friction is suitably high and you have something, which resembles Ole's small thingamajigs.

Martin

Bobmat1941.

Bobmat1941.

I have a bunch of these too, bought in a dollar-store for about... a dollar a piece.
They are postcard holders, and come in all shapes and colors. The base is plastic, with a piece of wire and a crocodile clip.

I can't find them on the web anywhere, and it's probably something you will just have to "bump into" so to say.

In a tight spot the can be made by yourself. A small wooden block, a piece of stiff wire or rod and some Radio Shack clips. Glue, glue, glue, and that's it.

Martin

Beautiful & very ski

Beautiful & very skillful.