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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had
participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
On Aug 7, 7:49*am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote:
I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and *I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
"riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op --glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself-- |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
On Aug 8, 8:23*am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote:
"riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished.. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op *--glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself--- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think I did post a TR. In a nutshell, it went GREAT, and I've even heard from a few kids this summer who took their gear with them off to college and wanted to know where to cast. One was in Utah, the other in California. --riverman |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
"riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 8, 8:23 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op --glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself--- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think I did post a TR. In a nutshell, it went GREAT, and I've even heard from a few kids this summer who took their gear with them off to college and wanted to know where to cast. One was in Utah, the other in California. --riverman Have you mentioned ROFF to them.............................................. :~^ ) Op |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
On Aug 9, 10:53*pm, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 8, 8:23 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message .... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op --glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself--- * Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think I did post a TR. In a nutshell, it went GREAT, and I've even heard from a few kids this summer who took their gear with them off to college and wanted to know where to cast. One was in Utah, the other in California. --riverman Have you mentioned ROFF to them.............................................. :~^ ) Op- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Not a chance. I don't want to encourage my kids to see my alter-ego here, and I have a professional responsibility to protect them from toxic environments. However, I *did* identify to them the roffians who sponsored their flies, and encouraged them to do business with Harry in exchange for his generosity. But if any of them do make fly fishing part of their regular repertoire, then it might be inevitable that they will stumble across roff in their on-line travels. :-) --riverman |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
"riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 9, 10:53 pm, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 8, 8:23 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op --glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself--- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think I did post a TR. In a nutshell, it went GREAT, and I've even heard from a few kids this summer who took their gear with them off to college and wanted to know where to cast. One was in Utah, the other in California. --riverman Have you mentioned ROFF to them.............................................. :~^ ) Op- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Not a chance. I don't want to encourage my kids to see my alter-ego here, and I have a professional responsibility to protect them from toxic environments. However, I *did* identify to them the roffians who sponsored their flies, and encouraged them to do business with Harry in exchange for his generosity. But if any of them do make fly fishing part of their regular repertoire, then it might be inevitable that they will stumble across roff in their on-line travels. :-) --riverman If any happen to locate ROFF and identify themselves as former students of yours, I will promptly direct them to the nearest porn site, as such a site would be eminently less toxic than ROFF! Do you happen to recall the title of your TR. I would like to look it up. Op |
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I don't recall which Fly Swap?
On Aug 10, 11:35*am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 9, 10:53 pm, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message ... On Aug 8, 8:23 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: "riverman" wrote in message .... On Aug 7, 7:49 am, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote: I looked thru Stans webpage, but only saw one swap in which I had participated. I know that I participated in at least two others, but the fly I will talk about must not have made it to Stan's site? Anyway, I had attempted to tie one of Oliver Edward's Mohican Mayflys (as a bonus fly for a swap, cause my fly tyin' skills suck), but wound up tying something the same, only completely different. It ended up looking like a giant foam bodied thing with spread deer hair wings and up-turned abdomen with moose hair tail, I think? Well, Bear and I fished a stream Sunday that Jeff Miller and I camped on in the early part of June. I have fished this fly on several occasions with great success. And again on Sunday it produced. I believe Miller saw me catch a trout on the same stream with this fly, on the same stream back in June--though it could have been one of the other streams that we fished. I have posted a pic of the trout with fly in mouth, over at ABPF. The pic was taken with my new cell phone cam, so the pic sucks as bad as my tyin' skills. The whole point to this post was to let anyone that may have been unfortunate enough to have received my hideous proffering, during a past fly swap, know that that particular fly actually attracts and catches fish! Op Hey Op; I had a similar experience! I tied up something called the "African Devil' back while I was in Congo, not really knowing anything at all about how to tie flies. It had a body made of wrapped PT, a long tail made of stiff fibres from an african wild boar, and a folded back cape and wing made from a red African Grey Parrot feather. The ones I sent to the swap were the best....I kept a couple of sick looking skinny, sparse, ratty ones that did not come out at all. They ended up being the most effective on the Rapid with Dave Lacourse this summer, to my amazement. If anyone still has their old African Devil, try dragging it through some pools....it turned out to be pretty good! :-) --riverman It amazes me the things that a trout will put in its mouth. Though I am very happy that NC trout seem enamored with my profferings! Btw, how did the group fishing tip to NZ turnout. I was likely in classes during your the time you were there and must have missed the TR aftere the trip :~^ ( Op --glad to hear you had success with flyz that you have tied yourself--- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think I did post a TR. In a nutshell, it went GREAT, and I've even heard from a few kids this summer who took their gear with them off to college and wanted to know where to cast. One was in Utah, the other in California. --riverman Have you mentioned ROFF to them.............................................. :~^ ) Op- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Not a chance. I don't want to encourage my kids to see my alter-ego here, and I have a professional responsibility to protect them from toxic environments. However, I *did* identify to them the roffians who sponsored their flies, and encouraged them to do business with Harry in exchange for his generosity. But if any of them do make fly fishing part of their regular repertoire, then it might be inevitable that they will stumble across roff in their on-line travels. *:-) --riverman If any happen to locate ROFF and identify themselves as former students of yours, I will promptly direct them to the nearest porn site, as such a site would be eminently less toxic than ROFF! Do you happen to recall the title of your TR. I would like to look it up. Op- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Actually, I never really did post a dedicated TR from the kids point of view, but I posted a report on losing a really big fish on the last day. Its called 'The Big One (you know the rest)' and was posted on roff in April. I also alluded in a couple of posts about the week and how the kids took to fishing, but never wrote a single dedicated TR. In reality, it rained a whole lot for the first half of the week, so we changed our plan and instead of working our way down the river, camping and casting as planned, we just made a base camp and did day trips out of there. The kids were real troopers, enjoying the novelty of camping in the rain, and developing their casting skills. By midweek, they were pretty independant, so they started fishing on their own and I just dropped by their spots to see how it went. By the end of the week, practically everyone was catching (little) fish, and a couple of the better casters were consistently putting me to shame, never getting windknots, and getting their lines out midstream with good presentation. All in all, they loved it and I think about half of them will continue to be fly fishermen for life. Mission accomplished. :-) --riverman |
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