Besides liking to shoot, are there any fly tiers here? I've dabbled at it years ago, but I still save feathers and fur for others that do.
What say you?
What say you?
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All salt water but not for a few years now, the stripers have fallen way off near me. Sold my boat as well.
Yup. Used to tie trout flies. Then salt water. This year it was for crappie, bass and pickerel.
Bass and pickerel on the fly are so much fun. The pickerel love the streamers. The bass on the other hand love my foam poppers. Dragging those things across the pads create some crazy strikes. They miss them half the time but they create quite a visual.Don't you mean calico bass?
My grandfather used to catch pickerel in Maine with a long pole and a string by dragging a bait across the open spots in the pond lilys. Some of the baits he mentioned using were pork rinds and old streamers from the landlock salmon season. He used to talk about salmon fishing on Sebago Lake with my great-grandfather and he remembered two things: how much rowing he had to do and how many big landlocks they caught trolling smelt-imitation streamers.. The streamers were pretty beat up by the end of the spring salmon season and he said that he would use them for catching pickerel in the summer.
Gramps was a thoroughly practical man.
That looks like a small bullfrog. Have you ever thought about tying one that resembles a leopard frog in black and white? Is that a weedless guard? How durable are they? Pickerel especially can be tough on baits.
I know what you mean about the surface strikes. I like to skip pork rind baits across the weeds and the strikes can be awesome. Pickerel will sometimes strike repeatedly before they hook up (or not).
Most fun I had with a fly rod was catching bluefish putting down the outside of Monomoy about 10 years ago. I some how managed to strip fast enough with a 30 lb fluorocarbon tippet that I never lost the fly but by the end of the afternoon they were trashed.
And this cape has donated to make many dry flies. I believe there are hundreds left to be tied. Haha
Looking to my right I see what is left of the box of materials given to me by Manomet.