Another great material part 2
Ok
so last week I was warbling on somewhat about a very very new material “micro
tinsel” well of course the proof of any new material is in the catching, and a
friend of mine (ill not say his name in case he gets embarrassed) was heading
sea fishing , so I said pop by and ill tie you a few up to try and well the
results are below.
Pollock on an ice 9 baitfish black eyed jack
Well
im kinda thinking that speaks for it as far as the materials fish catching
ability’s go
And
yet another great find
Again
from the people at castle feathers comes another amazing material which im really
loving and comes again in loads of colours this stuff is called blob tails
again it’s a material that they blend themselves so I got the small table out
and sat in the living room and picked a couple of colours that I fancied and
got to work
Small
roach type baitfish was the order of the day so I used a peacock back colour
and a silver belly colour flash to produce this fly below which to me looks
like it will catch pretty much anything that swims if you ask me I think the
red eye is very striking on this and a great target point, the eye and nose has
a coat of diamond hard around it, this adds just a little weight that I think
will give it a fantastic lifelike dying fish motion in the water irresistible I
think
So
after making the fly above I was thinking it was looking really nice so I did
another couple but this time I added a red permanent marker tail to them which
I really do think seals the deal and im highly confident about catching on them
A
slight variation on a theme with the fly below but I’ve used a normal white
blobtail belly instead of the silver and ive changed the eye colour oh and its
twice the size of the others
Below
is the 2 colours that make up the flies above with the exception of the white
belly above I’m sure you’ll agree that the peacock colour is very nice
Of
course with so many colours to choose from it can be hard to think what to make
up but if your short on ideas a basic white or silver belly will match up with
pretty much anything you put on the back of it so just have a play around and
of course the other thing is you can of course just use it in with other fibres
such as ep or piketreks body hair go with what you want to do with it you won’t
be disappointed
Sparkle
You
can see the cool sparkle coming off the peacock above imagine what
that will look like in the water , so below is a small selection of the colours avalible , you can check there ebay
shop for further colours , if you don’t have an ebay account just mail em the
email is below
Also
out and about this week martin smith who caught this rather nice pike on one of
my hotcore patterns which he tied up himself great job martin and a fine
looking fish
Ive
managed to get out and about this week, there was a break in the weather and I
had a small window of opportunity to get out and test some flies out to be
honest I was unsure how things were going to work out today as there had been a
lot of water going in to the loch with all the rain and this can turn the fish
right off , but being out on the water at least gave me a chance of fish even
if it’s a crazy assed rainbow trout that usually hit flies up here and can give
you a bit of sport on quiet days ……
So
I headed to a favoured spot slightly out of the wind but just enough to give us
a nice drift and cover some water I started with a small roach pattern as the
top of this blog post and put a really long line out after a couple of strips I
had the fast hit and bang bang bang thump of one of the venues rainbow trout I
actually saw it roll just under the surface as it threw the hook oh well ,
funnily enough a friend of mine has this strange tradition of , if you lose
your first fish of the day then it’s time to go home bad karma ……I’m not really
one for superstition so I just carried on fishing.
Just
as well really as the next perfectly placed fly was hit by a scrappy jack with
a whole lot of bad attitude it’s quite amazing what a fight these fish put up
on the fly even the smaller ones give you a real run for your money so
confidence levels were high after getting fish early on, the weather was
actually ok with cloud cover and a slight ripple which meant I could drift around
and cover a lot of water a perfect day for predator hunting
PURISTS LOOK AWAY NOW
Yup
because despite my best efforts and after the first few hits and one fish to the
boat things turned a bit strange and the fish switched off , anybody who fishes
for pike will know that you get these times when they just turn off and
although they seem to turn off you can sometimes force them into a strike and
what I did was decide to change area so while I was traveling to the next spot I
stuck on one of my trolling flies (ok I use the term loosely) now I know
trolling isn’t technically fly fishing although I do cast it out on a fly rod
before I troll it but I do think it maximises the chances of getting a bonus
fish while moving from area to area and it’s not like I’m rowing around all day
trolling the things so as far as im concerned its valid .
Well
I managed to pick up one bonus fish and by using a circle hook it was caught
right in the jaw I’ll do a blog on the use of trolling flies and circle hooks
in the coming weeks which I suspect will be an eye opener especially when you
see the flies (cough) …. And that was pretty much it for the day I couldn’t buy
a bite after this , the reasons why I really don’t know maybe a low front coming
through put them off but we didn’t even have a follow for the rest of the
afternoon , strange indeed when I was out a couple of days later and had 13
fish in the boat and at least 30+ follows and nips at the fly
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