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Please, someone can

Please, someone can give me an internet address of where I can buy "Cracking the Code" DVD.
Thanks

Thanks for this fant

Thanks for this fantastic job . Were can i buy entire wet collection ? Please answer me quicly. Thanks

just come back from lithauania and visited northern central and southern regions, did not have time to fish but was wondering about the stocks of fish i saw in the heavily frozen rivers that traversed the flet expansive and wooded landscape. one amazing carp dish i ate was seved in a fish stock jelly with carots and oniond the carp still remaining portioned on the bone isvicata a wonderful dish. another was pike baked with a whit caper sauce and boiled taties, im sure we ate these foods in times gone. good page

Hi Frederick. We got

Hi Frederick. We got quite a bit of snow last week, and a fresh topping on Monday when I snapped that pic. It was one of those perfect days for snow pictures - a sticky fluffy snow and no wind to speak of. That creek is about a mile and a half from my house, so I took a walk at lunch on Monday and snapped a few pics along the way. This one is my favorite.

Great fly Martin can

Great fly Martin cant wait to try one. Took me a bit to figure out the tube part but I ended up using a q-tip and a wire casing from an old mouse that stretched to fit snuggly over the q-tip and hook eye. Very cheap to make and you save your hook. Fastest fly I ever made no vise needed or tying thread.

Hello again..

Martin" I saw this article a few months ago, ÃÂ¯t was first impulse to think about that, but I think, that channel catfish is different type of food, wels is big to much and what I know this fish has mostly interest in fish and sometimes leeches. And major problem where is wels, there is no crayfish. We ve crayfish just in a few rivers.

to Waterdog: Ill test it!!! When we had a discussion about that we spoke about vibrations and big black flies. They are on surface just few weeks of summers nights and I hope that Ill be there.....Iam expecting 5 up to 10kg, but I saw a lot of fish caught on bait fish over then 25 and some of them were over 50. But Ill be setisfated with "small" babies.....:)
Could you send me a picture of your flies, please?
Thanks a lot, Dada

Hi Bob; It looks lik

Hi Bob; It looks like you are really good with the camera? where is that lovley stream? I dont think the catskills got much snow, or the poconos either, Might be a bad late spring !!FRED

Neat stuff Bob; I lo

Neat stuff Bob; I love to fish with the wet fly. I am 72 & fished the same water as Ray B. & Dr. burke, Both of which were from New Jersey , as I am too. The water they fished , is on the south branch of the Raritan , near a town called Long valley, DR. Burke lived in a town called Bound Brook N.J. I really like your style of tying. Great photos FRED

Infraredfilter?

Mike,

Glad you li

Mike,

Glad you like the fly and had luck with it. It's been a while since I fished it last, but your comment may just get me cranking out a few for this upcoming season's fishing... And yes, Steve's Universal Nymph is a killer fly!

Martin

Used a varation of t

Used a varation of this fly on a local bass lake and was rewarded with a nice 2 # large mouth use tan and shrimp u-v ice dub for the body and got a very flashy fly that i thinks hold geat promise for many warm and cold water species cant wait to try it on trout and stripers.I live in Atlanta Ga. by the way and we have acess to tailwater trout and many warm water species.Thanks for this site I also got my top producing trout nymph (unirversal nymph) from you guys. thanks again.

Chris,

maybe you

Chris,

maybe you should look at the tactics and flies used on Lake Taupo, New Zealand.

Kasper

Hi, My name is Ron

Hi,
My name is Ron Beck and I live in Florida in the U.S.A. Fishing has been my passion for 60 years. I try to find some kind of fishing antwhere my wife and I travel. I will be staying in Hotel Unterwirt, Ebbs, Tirol, Austria from July 4 through July 7. I can fly fish, but my true love is spin fishing. Are there any ponds or lakes in that area of Tirol where I can spend 3 or 4 hours catch and release fishing? Any info will be sooooo apreciated.

Hi Martin,

I have

Hi Martin,

I have been enjoying listening to your podcasts. I live on Lake Michigan in the US and am wondering if the style of fishing you do for sea trout would work on the coast of the Lake here for the lake run browns. I have been searching high and low for information about fly fishing the coast on the Great Lakes and am coming up with nothing.

Best regards,
Chris.

Hi Martin,

I also

Hi Martin,

I also heard your request for feedback on your Winter Fishing episode and figured that it was time that I thanked the guy who is providing such enjoyable podcasts for me and others to listen to. Each new episode comes to me through I-Tunes and I listen on my I-Pod. I look forward to each new program and listen to them as soon as they arrive.

I've been investigating podcasting myself over the past few months, reading about it and listening to plenty of internet samples. I think I enjoy yours most because you actually take your listeners fishing. What a wonderful way to capture memories! I purchased a new Eridol R-09 MP3 recorder a couple of weeks ago. I've had it out to record one fishing trip, recording on the stereo speakers built into the machine. I now know I need to add a mono microphone that can be clipped to my clothing as carrying the recorder on my person using the built in mics makes too much noise.

I look forward to future podcasts. Perhaps in time I'll be able to put something up that others can enjoy as well. Thanks for all you efforts. It is amazing that we can share in this way even though we're far apart geographically.

Tight lines.

Dave
Sweet Home, Oregon, USA

This photo explains

This photo explains why I've never landed a garfish! I used to hook the larger ones in the sea of Cortez, in Baja (30+ inches)... had a great fight until they all bit off, but never landed one, since they would never hit even the lightest wire leader. The acrobatics of the fish made it all seem worthwhile ,though, with most of it out of the water!

just a great collect

just a great collection of flies , I have been looking for some classic patterns to ty & try
around B.C.

Hi Dada,

In South Africa we have sharp-toothed catfish, which are very similar to wels, in the last few years I have been very sucessfull with large black flies , like a giant leech. When they are feeding close to the surface I use a team of flies, consisting of a big popper that is conected to a #1/0 black leech ( I use 40 cm of 25kg Maxima green - since they are not at all leader shy) this works very well since the catfish have very small eyes and rely on sound/vibrations to locate their pray.

The technique is to locate fish close to the surface then to cast as close as possible to them, the retrieve is usually hard pulls - to make the popper 'pop'. In my experience smaller fish - up to 5kg take the leech , the bigger oned tend to hit the popper.

Hope this works for wels... tight lines

Re: Many thanks Burkala!

[quote:e77ec6a0b5="Dada"]Iam still thinkink abaut Turkey, but I am still not to sure..... Ive read a few pages in Proseks book and thats why Ive intereset to visit Turkey like a fly fisher... :lol: When is the best time of season in Turkey? Iam a little bit scared about summer, bacause of low watter....[/quote:e77ec6a0b5]

Hi,

The season is crucial depending on the region and stream where you intend to fish. Best to fish in north west in small streams when the snow melting slows down till the time the snow doesnt effect the stream flow. - April /June . The meditteranean streams during June - October( The fishing season for trout in Turkey is between 1 April - 1 October ) . And for the Eastern Black sea ( North ) region, its best to fish during August to October.

Hope this will suffice

Burak

I love it. My favori

I love it. My favorite it the king fisher. The water is outstanding. Well done. -Derek

Hey Martin,

I hea

Hey Martin,

I hear your plea for feedback at the end of the episode and I wanted to say that the podcasts are great. They have especially sparked an interest in seatrout fishing and I would love to try it, freshwater brown trout are my favorite and those chrome fish are beautiful. I love winter fishing and here in Colorado we have great winter tailwater fishing for big fish feeding on the smallest midges, an exercise both frustrating and exciting. I agree with you about the breathable waders, much more versatile and comfortable in the winter, especially if you have to hike and climb around. Keep up the good work.

Re: Catfish?

[quote:d626a70af5="Martin Joergensen"]Dada,

I guess you refer to catfish?

Catching those on a fly in not the easiest task, but it's possible as you can see from the [url=http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/my-favorite-dad/]crayfish pattern article written by Michael Smith[/url] (Rybolov in this forum).

[url=http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/my-favorite-dad/pic.php?id=2827&cal… on this picture.[/url]

Martin[/quote:d626a70af5]

Hey, somebody pointed to me. I guess I had better chime in.

What we have here in the Eastern US are channel catfish. For the most part, they are not as large as the Wels, but I think the concept is the same. Believe it or not, they are very active predators and feed on baitfish and crayfish.

I've caught about a dozen or so catfish on a Skip's Dad, including a 3-foot monster that I didn't expect to be there.

I think it's easier in the spring, when the cats start looking for holes to lay their eggs. At that time, they're usually in the slower backwaters and more accessible to fly gear.

I still can't imagine unhooking catfish. Their feelers freak me out just thinking about them--I'm cringing as I say this. Definitely need the hemostats to release them.

Catfish?

Dada,