tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45304863451391014062024-03-13T22:29:28.678-07:00Flicking feathers A Japan based, fly fishing blog covering a range of species from fresh water to salt.
flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.comBlogger773125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-22285381508905650932023-05-25T16:01:00.001-07:002023-05-25T16:01:04.642-07:00Partridge & Yellow<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dEJGrP_Ox0c" width="483" youtube-src-id="dEJGrP_Ox0c"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The light partridge and yellow really is a deadly North country spider. Despite its simplicity, this fly is a great taker of both trout and grayling and frankly, the partridge and yellow should be in every river angler's box. </span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To support the channel and be eligible for giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and become a patron or support through <a href="http://paypal.me/flickingfeathers">paypal.me/flickingfeathers</a>
Materials list
Hook: Kamasan B170 size 14
Thread: Yellow silk (waxed)
Hackle: Grey speckled partridge</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-35846975712502663842023-05-20T05:19:00.002-07:002023-05-20T05:19:40.428-07:00Castin 100 feet with Paul Arden<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BzuuN2ZRwV0" width="483" youtube-src-id="BzuuN2ZRwV0"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul and Nick are back, this time discussing the elements that make up casting 100 feet plus. It’s starting to get exciting…</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-39133269006117864922023-05-17T17:18:00.001-07:002023-05-17T17:18:00.132-07:00CCI Workshop with Paul Arden<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGWDf83xT98" width="485" youtube-src-id="sGWDf83xT98"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the International Fly Fishing Show 2017 Indonesia Paul Arden of Sexyloops conducts a workshop to help prepare the casting instructor candidates</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-72451051056486859072023-05-17T01:30:00.001-07:002023-05-17T01:30:00.136-07:00Fiendish Feet<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCFysWyFUi1vaZi07hfH5FyZkPqW_Y_iqvokaSHSIgGWi_z436Cs_Z1I3bz8wmBdUVi4V6-y2JPfGndKlJllb9leBQ7f5S5_xWmHALXe4RTz5tYIwgaZWO4D6HQdGi_yqNKxt1WY7uH1K5ewdxmLNfWJ6pXTFBKTAiiIgqz5g0NFq1mqSJQV8cPq0/s900/220120012840_MxKWT1_img_3726_(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCFysWyFUi1vaZi07hfH5FyZkPqW_Y_iqvokaSHSIgGWi_z436Cs_Z1I3bz8wmBdUVi4V6-y2JPfGndKlJllb9leBQ7f5S5_xWmHALXe4RTz5tYIwgaZWO4D6HQdGi_yqNKxt1WY7uH1K5ewdxmLNfWJ6pXTFBKTAiiIgqz5g0NFq1mqSJQV8cPq0/w400-h266/220120012840_MxKWT1_img_3726_(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="border: 0px; color: #034960; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Over the last few years I've been tying more and more flies with snowshoe hare, either as a wing material, dubbing or both. It's a great material that I think is underrated, taking a back seat to CDC, synthetics or deer hair. The more I use snowshoe, the more I like it. I can almost see it replacing all other dry fly wing materials completely in my own box... almost.</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It's very buoyant, it'll do a better job of floating a dry fly (and a nymph) than CDC and most synthetics and is probably on a par with deer hair.</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It's tough, much tougher than deer hair or CDC. Obviously synthetic yarns are more durable, but there's not much in it and it doesn't matter as both will likely outlast hackles and tails.</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It doesn't need much looking after while fishing. This is a big one for me, I don't want to be spending ages trying to get slime off of a fly then drying it, primping it back into shape and reapplying floatant. Snowshoe is so easy to clean, fish slime just washes off like magic in the water, a quick blow of air, or the rubber band trick will have it dry and ready to fish instantly.</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It'll take any floatant, even if carelessly over applied. OK you can overdo it, but it's pretty hard to gunk up a snowshoe wing like you can with CDC. I like to treat snowshoe to a good rub of mucilin while I'm still at home, ideally a few days before fishing. This will keep your fly floating without re-treatment for several fish. On the water I just use gink if needed, which it might not be.</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It's great for small flies, and can be used on sizes where deer hair or foam would be near impossible and certainly ineffective. Yes you can use CDC or yarn for tiny stuff but it doesn't float the fly as well.</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">You get dubbing and winging material in one, and it's good dubbing. I just have a little tub sitting on the desk when using snowshoe and when I clean out the fuzz or short stuff, it goes in the tub, no extra work! You can,of course, use other dubbing material or dub CDC, but you either need to buy it or sit and trim scrap feathers before blending the cuttings. Deer hair can be dubbed too, but also needs chopping and working or blending.</li></ul><p></p></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">What's so good about snowshoe I hear you ask? Several things;<br /></p><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what are the downsides? Honestly I think they're hard to find. The length of the hair is probably one, it's generally shorter than a good CDC feather or normal deer hair, but then you'd have to be tying a pretty big fly for that to be a problem. I do think there is a perception that it needs more prep or is difficult to work with, but that's not really true. Putting a knife between the toes and splitting the foot is the only thing that might seem troublesome, but you only do that once every 1000 flies or so. I suppose it doesn't look as neat or well behaved as CDC and deer, which probably makes it less aesthetically appealing to the angler, its functionality and the fact that the fish generally don't give two hoots about our aesthetic sensibilities outweighs that for me. The POD is a little split wing dun with the snowshoe tied exactly as you would a couple of CDC feathers, and I think it looks just as good as CDC!</span></p><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, snowshoe is a great material and it certainly doesn't warrant the label of the poor man's CDC that you sometimes see. It's a superior material, it's just not as fashionable.</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-9507305257144450592023-05-15T19:24:00.001-07:002023-05-15T19:24:00.139-07:00Silky Smooth<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnV469CbtAFglV8-Zl7StVw8qzMJtYfBcfgcP1p2Tvs0ghwZu4eowwcL1OGjVA8X9maH0gb4Ji_dLJRs67IEfxilbwNnfYOYRQ_5MsElvSh8lZIxIa_Olqivy5V07lTuMgb7HHZeD2cTQTA1ZkZ5-ZWg-57zLMpkTAuqOIBWl_0aoB5cXhoekdIF8P/s640/220113030721_5jjsjS_$_59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnV469CbtAFglV8-Zl7StVw8qzMJtYfBcfgcP1p2Tvs0ghwZu4eowwcL1OGjVA8X9maH0gb4Ji_dLJRs67IEfxilbwNnfYOYRQ_5MsElvSh8lZIxIa_Olqivy5V07lTuMgb7HHZeD2cTQTA1ZkZ5-ZWg-57zLMpkTAuqOIBWl_0aoB5cXhoekdIF8P/w415-h269/220113030721_5jjsjS_$_59.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last week I wrote a bit about Tummel flies and made a video of Tod's No.1, a friend sent me an article by Dave Westwood from a Dutch website (although it does look have the look of FF&FT from the late 1990s) which seems to be about the only other modern information available. It's fairly good so I thought I'd share it here, the more people know about them the more chance this stuff has to be preserved.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.aflyinholland.nl/content/spiders/david_w_2/artikel%203.htm" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave's Article</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the points made in the article is about using fine modern threads, I'm guessing from the dates that he's referring to Uni 8/0 or UTC 70 rather than the super fine gsp stuff available now. It got me thinking about something I had said in the video for Tod's fly; you don't have to use silks, but they'll help make you a better fly tyer. I don't disagree with what Dave said, and I often use modern thread for old spider patterns, especially when there's no modern silk that matches the old Pearsall's colours. They are a boon, Uni especially takes wax very similarly to silk and I doubt most people could tell the difference. The fish certainly don't care!<br /><br />So why use silk instead? For some it's just satisfying to use original materials to replicate something from a bygone era. I must admit to feeling a little of that, but thankfully only a little. When I make the videos or do classes I use silk as far as possible with the old patterns as some kind of knowledge preservation. None of this is practical though, and the real reason I think silks are good is that they are thicker but not as strong as modern threads. Essentially they're a bit of a handicap that forces you to be efficient with thread wraps and careful with the amount of pressure you put on it. It's grippier, especially when waxed so you learn that you don't need loads of wraps to hold materials, as well as this, the torque it causes will always push the soft materials out of the way so silk will make you get better at capturing wraps. The only downside as I see it is that the first few flies might not look as nice as you're used to, but that's why we practise. So, although the fish don't care I think silk threads will make you a better, more efficient fly tyer, so when you use modern threads you'll tie nicer, more durable flies more quickly.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Right, I'm 'working from home' today, so I'm off down the river for a couple of carp.</p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-57647036168339943692023-05-14T19:19:00.002-07:002023-05-14T19:19:00.168-07:00Killer bug<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="336" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QZcO0dxdWAo" width="484" youtube-src-id="QZcO0dxdWAo"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frank Sawyer's Killer bug is as effective now as ever, it's a quick, durable tie that works year round for trout and grayling in all kinds of waters from chalkstreams to peaty freestones.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To support my channel and enter the giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and become a patron or support through <a href="http://paypal.me/flickingfeathers">paypal.me/flickingfeathers</a>
Materials list
Hook: B170/B175 or similar size 12-16
Thread: Dark reddish copper wire
Body: Chadwick's 477 sub- any brownish, pinky grey yarn</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-90188008003962290302023-05-13T17:31:00.001-07:002023-05-13T17:31:00.137-07:00George's Fly<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="343" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WpLblHBXQzA" width="483" youtube-src-id="WpLblHBXQzA"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week fly fishing the Malaysian Jungle for Giant Snakehead using George’s fly.</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-42396129059381400932023-05-12T17:27:00.001-07:002023-05-12T17:27:00.140-07:00Extreme Style Choices<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwd69LNV5tN20y7zmKVYMYTQuO_0s9xpXqLiYNH-sl45p_v7OglAXpF5xdEFbdcbvIlvvSOIElessvBjFV8W9PlO3E6Nf6_3RFTBn5JqrfuB2bGb4FPEv56pg5S9DxabJtiYEIu5dv0UYsVQBIhq4Hctx0Oh5gkSbxD2vHC-KqIa4UQ5qyjTBSLmB/s1000/220103110757_7crmZI_img_3597_loops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwd69LNV5tN20y7zmKVYMYTQuO_0s9xpXqLiYNH-sl45p_v7OglAXpF5xdEFbdcbvIlvvSOIElessvBjFV8W9PlO3E6Nf6_3RFTBn5JqrfuB2bGb4FPEv56pg5S9DxabJtiYEIu5dv0UYsVQBIhq4Hctx0Oh5gkSbxD2vHC-KqIa4UQ5qyjTBSLmB/w640-h426/220103110757_7crmZI_img_3597_loops.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I've been tying river wet flies for a friend this week, mostly spiders. I really like tying them and was particularly pleased when he asked me to stick some Tummel style flies in with the rest.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I like Tummel style. I like all the traditional river wets, Clyde, Tweed and North Counrty, but I there's something about the Tummel style that just works for me somehow. Now, unless you're from the UK or a student of traditional flies, you may not be that familiar with Tummel style flies. It's not surprising as they rarely seem to be written about. It's not cause they're not good flies though, they're just forgotten. The same could probably be said for Tweed style flies though clyde style patterns seem to be a bit better known. Most of the stuff I see is North Country spiders, mostly from Yorkshiremen, and flymphs.<br /><br />This probably has something to do with the style itself. Tummel style flies are really for the extremophiles among us, they are incredibly spartan in their dressing and sometimes were even tied on double hooks to make them sink faster. Essentially you're tying a fly a couple of sizes smaller than the hook size, a trick still in use today among competition nymphers or with Bob Barden's anorexic nymphs. It can be hard to have confidence in these patterns but a fish or two overcomes that, the real problem is that they don't lend themselves too well to the lazy down and across style that many people associate with river wets. No, the quick drop makes the Tummel fly far better suited to upstream fishing in steeper faster rivers. Most people who'll do the work probably fish nymphs over wets most of the time and they'll catch more fish most of the time doing so. It's not everyone who's obsessed with catching the most fish possible, and especially if not competing there's something very nice about working upstream with a cast of wets picking off fish as you go, and Tummel flies will let you do that. There's no need to stick to the old patterns either; add hotspots or flash if you like but next time you hit a steep, tumbly freestone or spate burn, have a few tummel flies in your box to try.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The photo fly is E.M. Tod's Tummel No.1, he didn't bother to name them but listed a few in his 1903 work 'Wet-Fly Fishing Treadted Methodically" which is a good read if you like that sort of thing.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The dressing is simple<br />Hook:14-16 wetfly<br />Thread: Yellow silk(or whatever)<br />Body: A short section of tying silk then a couple of turns of peacock herl- the body should end about halfway between the eye and point of the hook.<br />Hackle: Cock starling neck feather- Keep it sparse!</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">You can get Tod's book on reprint here <a href="https://amzn.to/3ESlTIW">https://amzn.to/3ESlTIW</a></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-6014236519391474762023-05-11T17:22:00.001-07:002023-05-11T17:22:00.130-07:00Planning Sessions<p> An old one I wrote for <a href="http://www.sexyloops.com">www.sexyloops.com</a></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HBI2_e2OcIPHvCovXgH4QqEi9g9P3D6ynE_-JT82S7JRcwYwMYSmEyFRWfj049tn03N5ufyD5IQ39H1TAbolnWzHNgfYWrNlq-6ZY57ubK7J3XhdUm8yzsz5j77FxNc4M7AAwMdgbNg2RKIo0W8qM2sURSYyYce-vcY-4LwecGrIRpMeEPgkKgB7/s275/211230040204_VaZjSI_download_(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HBI2_e2OcIPHvCovXgH4QqEi9g9P3D6ynE_-JT82S7JRcwYwMYSmEyFRWfj049tn03N5ufyD5IQ39H1TAbolnWzHNgfYWrNlq-6ZY57ubK7J3XhdUm8yzsz5j77FxNc4M7AAwMdgbNg2RKIo0W8qM2sURSYyYce-vcY-4LwecGrIRpMeEPgkKgB7/w400-h266/211230040204_VaZjSI_download_(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h5><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a quick one from me this week, I almost forgot as the days are blurring into each other. It's been too cold for much in the way of fishing here, I could have gone out for carp but it's been consistently below zero over night for the past couple of weeks, better just to stay home with a mince pie, mess around with the fishing stuff, make some inroads on my book of carp flies and try to plan what the coming year will bring.<br /></h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />If things start normalising a bit more I might make it over to Malaysia to see Paul, drink some whisky and miss shots at snakehead. I'd also like to get back to Scotland for a month or so, see family head to the Hebrides for some machair loch browns, hit Loch Lomond and a few others for pike and spend some days chasing grayling on the Tweed. But who knows, it seems like the travel regulations are changing all the time here: maybe we can leave, maybe we can get back in, maybe we'll have to quarantine in a hotel, maybe at home, maybe we can't get back in. Have to wait and see.<br /><br />So I'm also thinking about what I can do here. I'm looking foraward to the maruta in March, I'd missed them for several years until last year and really enjoyed targetting them. I'll probably switch the focus back to carp somewhat too. In recent years smallmouth have been my main target really, but this year I've been getting back into carp and have remembered why they used to be almost exclusively all I fished for, also I'm not as good at it as I used to be which is annoying.<br /><br />January will see the seabass back from spawning so, I'll get canadian John out with his spinning rod and see if we can't catch him a couple of fish. I reckon I'll get him on the fly rod this year too, which might actually increase his chances of success in the local rivers.<br /><br />Hope you all have a better 2022. Aw the best 'n' lang may yer lum reek</p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-30724580675146266082023-05-10T17:20:00.001-07:002023-05-10T17:20:00.142-07:00Open Stance Distance backcast vs 170 backcast<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aIWbIJfw55g" width="481" youtube-src-id="aIWbIJfw55g"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A short student video showing the movement differences between OSD and 170 backcasts</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-31074833235101299142023-05-10T03:20:00.003-07:002023-05-10T03:20:00.155-07:00The 170<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G6ikOOSnguw" width="476" youtube-src-id="G6ikOOSnguw"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A video on the elements of the 170 and uses of both back and forward cast stopless deliveries. Filmed in a jungle near you.</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-90710874629965222772023-05-08T17:13:00.001-07:002023-05-08T17:13:00.140-07:00Walt's & Sexy Walt's Worm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="337" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vvhtsCaIaO0" width="481" youtube-src-id="vvhtsCaIaO0"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Walt's & Sexy Walt's are super easy, super quick, super effective little nymph pattern that catches fish everywhere. Adjust the size, weight bead colours to suit your fishing. To support my channel and enter the giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and become a patron or support through <a href="http://paypal.me/flickingfeathers">paypal.me/flickingfeathers</a></span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Materials list
Walt's Worm
Hook: Jig 10-20
Weight: Slotted tungsten bead
Thread: 8/0 Brown or dun
Body: Hare's ear or squirrel
Sexy Walt's
Hook: Jig 10-20
Weight: Slotted tungsten bead
Thread: 8/0 FL orange, green, red or pink
Body: Hare's ear or squirrel
Rib: Mirage tinsel</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-8752011497712944382023-05-07T17:13:00.000-07:002023-05-07T17:13:13.264-07:00Seasonal Affective Disorder<p>An old one I wrote for <a href="http://sexyloops.com">sexyloops.com</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-p06in3FTU9Yu4yoZvz5DcCwFZzbyY13tk7Qu7bkP3DFx6BclsTZuIdcFDcxal_7t_d53jI7_XzM6uQYlNyCoEisaVGhPROYogN3H-rzekhJTth28MZ-Vh5vySmcSvUH_3q1yBpA8z3fZ59870oNovYd-b2h36w5rUtvXY3OemAlxU7__Q6ikgkP/s287/211223030355_3K2ufb_screenshot_20211222_232447_com.instagram.android.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="287" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-p06in3FTU9Yu4yoZvz5DcCwFZzbyY13tk7Qu7bkP3DFx6BclsTZuIdcFDcxal_7t_d53jI7_XzM6uQYlNyCoEisaVGhPROYogN3H-rzekhJTth28MZ-Vh5vySmcSvUH_3q1yBpA8z3fZ59870oNovYd-b2h36w5rUtvXY3OemAlxU7__Q6ikgkP/w640-h417/211223030355_3K2ufb_screenshot_20211222_232447_com.instagram.android.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's that time of year again, a time of cheer and goodwill to all men and, unfortunately, for the redd caught browns to start showing up on intagram. It took a bit longer than last year for me to notice. Probably because most of the higher profile culprits have blocked me for calling it out over the last few years.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I don't think people will ever completely stop fishing for spawning fish and kelts, whether because of ignorance or greed. It is something that can be reduced though, I'm sure a lot of inexperienced angler's who catch fish on redds don't realise what they're doing and if given the opportunity to learn, would change their behaviour. Some in the States try to justify it by saying browns are invasives, but that's bullshit. If they cared about that they'd be killing the fish and backing a removal programme.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The thing is, when you see these posts online you'll also see comments of encouragement from the big fishing companies and/or media outlets. What's even is worse some of the people posting the photos are "prostaffers", actually employed by these companies or guides-the guy who most recently blocked me was a guide in Hokkaido. Admittedly the social media employee for, say Simms, might not really be that much of a fishing person but when they're all over the posts supporting the behaviour it just provides positive reinforcement which encourages more people to target them. Spawning browns look amazing, or they would if they weren't covered in spawning damage, but it doesn't matter, all the fish should be left alone to breed regardless of the opportunity to make a popular social media post. The industry really must do better on this front.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The POD is a snipped image from social media, I've only shown the tail but the fish was covered in the usual fin damage and bite marks around the head.</p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-2155718700555909102023-05-05T17:49:00.002-07:002023-05-05T17:49:00.135-07:00The Eyes Have It<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZEnYpFp7j96cCWalcSXRW6A2SU4uqSEMjT2RyMIH3jYpMGXIYEVBoilIaHw9gbMAbjcPUicpmg8N7-V5yBIyJWzGnbyeyKD015w2nJ40RtBBkS4geLlTc2UoHw6hP72LBSOPAC4UsaIXATTZ5w3mO9iKcAnxUWeQWUHA473RuXyI9iGH0SC0FDk1/s1000/211216023845_WAoSDq_img_20211216_102939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="1000" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZEnYpFp7j96cCWalcSXRW6A2SU4uqSEMjT2RyMIH3jYpMGXIYEVBoilIaHw9gbMAbjcPUicpmg8N7-V5yBIyJWzGnbyeyKD015w2nJ40RtBBkS4geLlTc2UoHw6hP72LBSOPAC4UsaIXATTZ5w3mO9iKcAnxUWeQWUHA473RuXyI9iGH0SC0FDk1/w640-h376/211216023845_WAoSDq_img_20211216_102939.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eyes, do they make a difference? Some say no, some say yes and some are agnostic. Then there are the people who believe in them but wonder what the point is because their eyes always fall off.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I think eyes make a difference, or rather several differences. Yes I'm pretty sure that for some species an eye on a baitfish pattern is, or can be the difference between an eat and a refusal. I think this is especially true of small bait imitations. A lot of small minnows have very prominent eyes and it probably makes sense to imitate them. Of course there's no way of truly proving that fish that eats a fly with an eye wouldn't have eaten a blind one, but I've been in situations where I'm sure it has made the difference. But really I don't think that's the most important difference when it comes to eyes. Not least because although eyes might give the angler confidence we'll never know for sure if it really mattered.<br /><br />So what is important? Well, the things that are objectively true and make measurable difference to a fly's behaviour. Adding eyes usually makes a significant physical difference to the front end of a fly and is something you can use to your advantage. Adding tape eyes to a fly effectively adds 2 planes to the head of the fly, which can make it behave in a certain way on the retrieve. If your eyes are uneven it can cause twist while casting or make the fly swim lopsided-that might not be a bad thing depending on what you want to catch. But assuming they're big enough, if they are even they'll have a stabilizing effect on how the fly tracks. the most extreme example is on James Christmas' Flaming Lambo GT fly, the tape eyes are stuck to each other above the shank creating a keel effect which keeps the fly tracking straight at very high speed. If you fill the space between the eyes with epoxy or resin you end up with a single plane that depending on the shape can make the fly jerk or glide from side to side, which is nice.<br />3D eyes will do much the same but also add weight, obviously, which can add some jigginess or even just balance the bend of the hook. But they also probably need a bit more care because they are rigid so have a stronger planing effect on the inside. If you get a fly that isn't tracking properly and has 3D eyes, it's worth having a look at the head for an exposed edge on one if the eyes. These edges can act like a diving vane on a plug, which can be a pain if it's not what you want. Luckily it's an easy fix when you get home, but can be frustrating on the water. An exposed lip on an eye is also one of the reasons they come off.<br /><br />Eyes coming off is a problem for a lot of people, and it will eventually happen to most flies. But there are things you can do to stop it happening quickly that can also help make your fly swim.<br /></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; list-style: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Use actual glue, UV resin isn't glue and unless you are encasing the eyes in the resin it's not keeping them on long term.</li><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Use appropriate glue, Gorilla glue or Evsotick Serious are pretty good for a lot of applications. Superglue is essentially a waste of time especially in salt water.</li><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Make sure that 3D eyes can't flex on the fixing point, either by sticking the eyes to each other, having a very dense head or filling the gap with resin or epoxy. The 2nd two will also reduce pass through which makes your tail materials move more.</li><li style="border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">If possible, encase the eye with some kind of topcoat. It could be UV resin, silicone, or a clear urethane like Liquid Fusion or Gorilla glue. Epoxy will yellow but also works.</li></ul><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">So put eyes on but don't worry too much about them being a visual trigger, they may or may not be, think about the hydrodynamic effect they can have on the function of the fly.</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-48956683405332735242023-05-04T17:45:00.001-07:002023-05-04T17:45:00.132-07:00Body Quill Perdigon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qOUHVIu88Io" width="483" youtube-src-id="qOUHVIu88Io"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perdigons have become firmly established as essential river nymphs. These super simple body quill versions are quick, easy ties that are ideal when the fish prefer a more drab offering rather than the tinsel based patterns You sometimes see these under other names such as the Spanish bullet, but I see no reason to change the name from the original.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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I strongly recommend a salon style UV lamp to give these and all your UV resin flies a final cure for a hard, clear tack free finish regardless of the brand resin you use
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Materials list
Hook: Jig or nymph hook 14 -20
Thread: Body quill
Weight: Tungsten bead
Tail: Coq de Leon
Thorax cover: Black varnish
Book of the Month 10 "Essential Saltwater Flies" is available here;
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This is the first episode. With Paul Arden and Nick Moore from Sexyloops</span><br /> <p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-59258113909096537982023-05-02T17:42:00.001-07:002023-05-02T17:42:00.150-07:00All That Extra Work<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpK5fuothpNoyUtRNylELuW9vVNyH1s7VRz1uDFNO_nCJxg5Ls6aFQehRSDTsjt0OwIzOFA0B0S3IjlbJRoNDTO5YOQ41hVHPeyRq4P1Xea80olCHs9ripeqrezDpbDLowEjVp_wsko_ExM6b3T2J7pZe2k4f5xQQ-XZJrRJx_pWYJz9ZGiwArCtnl/s1000/211209020021_O3XkcG_263843228_378821007266487_2939565269971139765_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1000" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpK5fuothpNoyUtRNylELuW9vVNyH1s7VRz1uDFNO_nCJxg5Ls6aFQehRSDTsjt0OwIzOFA0B0S3IjlbJRoNDTO5YOQ41hVHPeyRq4P1Xea80olCHs9ripeqrezDpbDLowEjVp_wsko_ExM6b3T2J7pZe2k4f5xQQ-XZJrRJx_pWYJz9ZGiwArCtnl/w640-h406/211209020021_O3XkcG_263843228_378821007266487_2939565269971139765_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first leg of my winter seabass season has come to a close as the fish will be moving out to the open sea over the next week or two as they get ready to spawn, they won't be back till January sometime. It's been interesting as we've been experimenting with some very big flies.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm not sure the really big flies are that necessary. Naturally I've caught fewer fish than normal, but that was to be expected. I have caught a few nice bass and come into contact with a couple of huge fish, most notably one that would have smashed my PB which was lost at the net. The isssue is, I've not caught any more big fish than usual. In fact, some of the best fish I have caught came to the usual 7-20cm flies. This week for example I caught a beautifully conditioned 65cm bass on a little rubber candy, a second 67cm fish came to a 20cm Sedotti slammer.<br /><br />I spent at least half of the trip fishing a 30cm topwater fly for one chase from a fish that either missed or rejected on the eat, which has been fairly normal over the trips this season. Masuda reckons lure fishing for these herring and feeders is easy, but the fly seems less effective. The amount of water we can cover is probably part of it, I suspect action, water push and sound is also a contributing factor. It's hard to replicate the big lures in a fly that is castable, It's easier on subsurface flies as you can add weight to overcome the air resistance, but on topwater you can't really do that without having to add more foam. A foot long beast is so light it's a reasonable proposition on a #10, as is a Slammer of the same size with it's leaded underbody and keel. But a big popper head or 2 and a spinner blade on a 30cm shanked fly makes casting hard work, there's no way I'm going heavier than a 10 weight for these fish.<br /><br /><br />So is the extra work worth it? I'm not sure it is. Now of course if I had landed an 80cm+ fish I might feel differently, but I'm sure I wouldn't have had worse results if I'd stuck to flies of 20cm and under. Certainly I could have tied a 4/0 Bob's banger around 20cm and had the same degree of success as I did with the 30cm job. I suspect I might even have caught a couple of fish that the 30cm fly was too big for. After New Year the big bait won't be around so much, so I'll have to wait till next autumn to put that to a real test. Now I'm looking forward to some cricket score nights in January.</p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-48198601117775579572023-05-01T21:53:00.001-07:002023-05-01T21:53:00.147-07:00The Method Isn't The Problem<p> Another oldie from loops..</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJFa2Gl4CsMjDWLtXZmjLRrDb9JSBalmY1pgoiTl7FnHhR951RopeKR9cQQqGEEatITvO03L4Hm9Gf4MNZ_Gqs67aeln7EVt950tqSjcj1VvcQJbeICT2-KONXSTvt87dwcOkwroowi_MUcA6f1RaHXL6ZXmN7ctvDamnsB7JKy3cSHRSPIM0l3cx/s1000/211202022011_anaVhq_img_3115loops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJFa2Gl4CsMjDWLtXZmjLRrDb9JSBalmY1pgoiTl7FnHhR951RopeKR9cQQqGEEatITvO03L4Hm9Gf4MNZ_Gqs67aeln7EVt950tqSjcj1VvcQJbeICT2-KONXSTvt87dwcOkwroowi_MUcA6f1RaHXL6ZXmN7ctvDamnsB7JKy3cSHRSPIM0l3cx/w640-h426/211202022011_anaVhq_img_3115loops.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both Nick and Paul's posts this week chimed with something I've been thinking about recently, a lot of people criticise methods, it could be the bung, Euro nymphing, the booby or anything else. Often it's a sort of knee-jerk response because they don't understand it, or maybe it's envy at the success of another angler, sometimes it's because of the way a lot of people use the method in question.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm far from a purist, just yesterday I was fitting large willow leaf spinner blades to some topwater gamechangers in a bid to make them a bit noisier! I'll gladly fish the bung, a booby or a Euro rig-I even use a beefed up french leader for small stream carping! I've no time for the moans from old-usually American- men complaining that Euro nymphing isn't flyfishing, or isn't new and they've been doing it for 60 years. The second complaint in particular just screams to me that they don't understand the method(s) The American team's historic performance in international competition illustrates pretty clearly that modern European techniques haven't been in common use across the pond for 60 years. Perhaps it's carmundgeonry, perhaps it's envy, but it's definitely based in ignorance.<br /><br />The same is true for the Booby, although it is thankfully becoming rehabilitated to an extent. Years ago became was fairly common for fisheries in the UK to ban boobies, of course the fishery manager/owner can set the rules they want but the booby bans seem to me to be mostly rooted in some kind of prejudice. I know of more than one place that banned the booby but allowed a deer hair bomb because it doesn't have foam and is a "proper fly" even though it's functionally more or less the same. Sometimes the bans were only limited to catch & release fishing, which atually makes sense because of the deep hooking risk. But why stop a guy on a 6 fish kill ticket using a booby? Probably it stems from how the booby was most commonly used in the 80s & 90s i.e. cast out and "fished" static or slowly crawled back on a Hi-D(the fastest sink at the time) with a short leader, say 18'-3'. It could be deadly, but often resulted in fish swallowing the fly. And certainly, to many, looked a lot like ledgering. Thankfully people have switched on to the many ways the booby and other buoyant flies can be fished on various retrieves throughout the water column. There are still places that ban boobies but there are workarounds for people wanting to use a floating fly and, should they avoid the old static method, they'll probably fly under the radar.<br /><br />The Bung suffers much the same, except it looks like a float fishing rather than ledgering. It can be just float fishing(which is actually a lot more skillful than many fly anglers want to accept) I admit, I don't see much skill in turning up at a half acre put & take, automatically tying on a wotsit, attaching a bung and casting it out and waiting, but I also don't see much greater skill in just fishing a cat's whisker and blindly pulling it back all day. There's more to the bung than that. Years ago I remember a boat partner in a competition complaining that there was no skill in the bung as he switched to buzzers under an indicator. I didn't acknowledge it, the only reason he was changing was that I was doing him several fish to nothing in the first hour. Over the course of the day he did catch a few but got soundly thrashed. The reason was that I was actively fishing my bung on a long cast using a rolling retrieve to create a fish attracting wake and lift my buzzers toward the surface before stopping to let them settle. He was just fishing it static. At the end of the day he made another comment about it being just the bung, but had no answer to my question about why he didn't actually copy HOW I was fishing it or why if there was no skill he'd just taken a doing to the tune of 18 fish to 3. It's the kind of thing that happens all the time. The other consideration is the casting skill required, try casting 3 buzzers and a hooked indicator (all on droppers) on a 25ft level leader from a seated position in a boat (the rules of loch style internationals and qualifiers require you to be seated while fishing). A lot of the critics of the method are going to struggle with that!<br /><br />Here's a video of an actively fishable bung that has a bit more than meets the eye.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="374" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/avou3iqp6vg" width="484" youtube-src-id="avou3iqp6vg"></iframe></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-82041369547569059292023-04-30T19:58:00.001-07:002023-04-30T19:58:00.134-07:00Japan Fly Fishing; The Maruta<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="347" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-DaJ0oILOfY" width="484" youtube-src-id="-DaJ0oILOfY"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music by Morlais </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/morlais/1018522954?l=en">https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/morlais/1018522954?l=en</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Maruta, or pacific redfin, is a sea-run member of the dace family that return to spawn in Japanese rivers in early spring. Unlike salmon, they continue to feed in fresh water and are easy to catch on nymphs, or streamers. When they are fresh in the river from the ocean, they are very powerful for their size. After a few weeks in the rivers they lose some of that strength but still fight well.
To support my channel and enter the giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and become a patron or support through <a href="http://paypal.me/flickingfeathers">paypal.me/flickingfeathers</a></span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-69422659684182484102023-04-29T16:50:00.001-07:002023-04-29T16:50:00.150-07:00Dyret<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="368" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7C5voCZbIAM" width="474" youtube-src-id="7C5voCZbIAM"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dyret is a great caddis imitation from Norway, it's a great choice for trout and grayling. This olive version is ideal for for situations where you want something buoyant enough to fish with a small dropper nymph To support my channel and enter the giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and become a patron or support through <a href="http://paypal.me/flickingfeathers">paypal.me/flickingfeathers</a></span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Materials list
Hook: Dry fly 10-18
Thread: Uni 8/0 grey
Tail/head: Deer hair
Body: Olive superfine dubbing
Hackle: Grizzly dyed olive</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-7859370194800234312023-04-28T19:02:00.001-07:002023-04-28T19:02:00.140-07:00Sawyers Pheasant Tail<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xo5NF33vj-g" width="472" youtube-src-id="xo5NF33vj-g"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Nymphs & The Trout </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ty9mUf">https://amzn.to/3Ty9mUf</a></span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frank Sawyer's pheasant tail nymph is a truly fantastic fly that everyone should have in their fly box. It's simple, and easy to tie once you know how and really works just as well as modern variations with more going on. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers">https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and sign up.
Material list.
Hook: Nymph 14-20
Thread: XS copper wire
Tail: Peasant tail
Body: pheasant tail</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-70945899597392512152023-04-27T19:00:00.001-07:002023-04-27T19:00:00.140-07:00Exploratory Missions<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An old post I wrote for <a href="http://www.sexloops.com">www.sexloops.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeEPU06nhlx89dMZ52Lq2thCSMvbjbJdL7bBT9LWY1QxWUwA6zPhvmhx1x2i5bWCM4XRoYqSQeWYw18xWQe3clpbO4HFEn_Gq5pp1P3zecIn9c0QLs8RfHiBkfzi3E279RKPnHuixKfch8Kb4xQLxLyUPSoBrLCa50ViYCxm8GwT8aU5hHloiEMfX/s1000/211125022915_DaRz6P_img_20211108_164824loops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="1000" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeEPU06nhlx89dMZ52Lq2thCSMvbjbJdL7bBT9LWY1QxWUwA6zPhvmhx1x2i5bWCM4XRoYqSQeWYw18xWQe3clpbO4HFEn_Gq5pp1P3zecIn9c0QLs8RfHiBkfzi3E279RKPnHuixKfch8Kb4xQLxLyUPSoBrLCa50ViYCxm8GwT8aU5hHloiEMfX/w640-h380/211125022915_DaRz6P_img_20211108_164824loops.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><header style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h5><h5 style="border: 0px; color: #034960; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I've been checking a few new-to-me shore locations around Tokyo bay over the last few weeks. Some of them are right in the city, like down by the Olympic village. Others are thankfully a bit out of the way. It's been fun, even if it has meant fewer fish than I might usually expect. This is the kind of situation where I don't mind blanking though. Each visit to a mark helps to build a picture of the area and what it's like at different tides. Of course fish are welcome, but I'm OK with some slow sessions if it means I can manage some more consistent success in future.</h5></header><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #585f65; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">This week I've been to a promising place, a nice esturine area with a couple of islands, some nice channels and other manmade structure. The first visit I went down during the day without the rod and just had a walk around, at low tide to see what was what. I like to do this where possible as I'll often be fishing at night and it's a good idea to have some kind of picture of what is in front of you. It also helps make estimates about where to start and which points are likely to be good. The next time I arrived about an hour before sunset which let me catch the last 2 hours of the rising tide and the first couple of the fall. I had a mooch around and started at one of the river mouths. There was nothing fancy about my approach; an intermediate and a 7" blurple Tabory's snake on a 6ft leader. As I more or less expected I didn't catch although I did get a couple of bumps, probably small fish judging from the erratic shakey feel. Could I have caught those fish with a smaller fly? Probably, but that wasn't really the point. It's still nice to get that little bit of action just to keep the confidence up. I'm heading back down on afternoon to fish the falling tide into dark, I'm still going to be treating it as an image building exercise, but as the season is progressing and the larger fish will mostly be moving out into the bay by now, I'll probably fish something a bit smaller. John is coming with his spinning rod-which I hope he's more proficient with now- and he'll be able to help cover water to some degree.<br /><br />The boat trips are always more productive and I reckon I'll squeeze in one more before the spawn kicks off, but I do enjoy getting out and cracking some of the more challenging stuff on my own.</p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-45634774779303364952023-04-26T18:56:00.001-07:002023-04-26T18:56:00.147-07:00Butano Perdigon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="339" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9mfouJDc6Kk" width="431" youtube-src-id="9mfouJDc6Kk"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perdigon style flies are well established as excellent fish catchers the world over. The butano version is a great attractor that will catch, trout grayling and other species year round. 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I strongly recommend a salon style UV lamp to give these and all your UV resin flies a final cure for a hard, clear tack free finish regardless of the brand resin you use
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Material list.
Hook: Nymph or jig hook size 14-22
Weight: Silver tungsten bead
Thread: Fluoro. orange
Tail: Coq de Leon
Body: Hends perdigon body, FB06
Collar: Black thread
Coating: Thin UV resin or Varnish</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-53979960784422659412023-04-25T18:54:00.001-07:002023-04-25T18:54:00.137-07:00Giant Snakehead<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vQUhJaV-hTw" width="447" youtube-src-id="vQUhJaV-hTw"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was originally supposed to be a video about the Sexyloops HT8 </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa19oU0FHaFlDN1lja2lELTBqY2N2bkZsZlJMQXxBQ3Jtc0tuN3BHSU1VVzRUUU80OGdGdjNGbmZVSzAzZjBkMU41T2RvSzFvTlB3azZGZEl2VnI3YkxkblJiMVQ4SXZac1g1eEdJQXl3THRSR2xPbE5iaU01UDg0SnVwYjFVZmJQVWt0d2NxUmZrUFhLZUg5UHh0VQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sexyloops.com%2Findex.php%2Fwebshop%2Flist%2F70%2Ffly-rods&v=vQUhJaV-hTw" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.sexyloops.com/index.php/w...</a></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> turned out to be more a video about giant snakehead and elephants :)) Some nice fishing moments here in the jungle.</span><p></p>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530486345139101406.post-27525854648922963202023-04-24T18:49:00.001-07:002023-04-24T18:49:00.157-07:00Snow Shoe Emerger<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="366" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HB-A7dW5kqU" width="482" youtube-src-id="HB-A7dW5kqU"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This easy little crippled emerger is deadly for fussy fish that want something low in the surface film. It can be tied to imitate mayfly species from the smallest BWOs to the largest Danicas.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways, head to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers">https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers">https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and sign up.
Materials list
Hook: TMC 100 or similar, size 8-22
Thread: 70 denier to match colour
Shuck: Antron
Rib: Fine gold Wire
Abdomen: Pheasant tail
Thorax: Snow shoe hare yellow/olive/cream/natural
Emergent wing: Snow shoe hare light or dark dun to suit</span>flicking feathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06028827411662756745noreply@blogger.com0