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be able to try one off these rods shortly ive heard so many great things about
them from the states they seem to really be able to do the business
There philosophy
Being out on the water is what makes it all worthwhile.
The idea of Rock River Rods was born from fishing in a variety of
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There team
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Ultimately, we hope that you enjoy fishing with our gear
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Tying 101
Return of the maribou
Kicking back with
some pretty easy streamer designs with marabou and gator eyes can’t really do
much wrong with these and they certainly catch a lot of fish for clients , the
eyes are sealed with a coat of diamond hard uv
often copied never bettered and still tack free ……..
Ok ill be the first
to admit im not a massive fan of these fishheadz things but I thought id give
em a go on some marabou flies and on first glance they actually look ok but I
suppose the proof is in the casting which I shall be doing next week with a bit
luck be really interested to see how they work in action I need to make a few
more as the destroyer is fishing with me so he will want some no doubt lol
Whats a fly without
decent eyes , I really love the steelhead eyez from deercreek , ok well we aint
got steelhead in the uk , but they are great for roach patterns , and when your
doing quite a generic simple pattern with marabou feathers its just what you
need to spice the fly up and give it a target point for predators , now I will
say here and know deercreek have always been the world leaders in fly eye
technology and just bear in mind when you buy inferior eyes, there eyes have
been extensively tested by the pro team
not just copied and printed and sold with no regard to how they work or look
New hookage
Oh yes my new hooks
have arrived these are 7/0 and designed for using when making big baitfish
patterns , the balance for getting hooks just right is actually quite critical
to how the fly moves in the water a thing a lot of so called 10 min experts in
pike fly tying experts forget , you see a fly (I always wonder about calling it
a fly) has to move in a specific way to
emulate a baitfish , for example , if your trying to emulate a wounded baitfish
in the water , the last thing you want is a hook that’s too heavy because all
that’s going to do is sink really quickly and look unnatural as you try and
strip and pause it through the water .
Imaging a pike
sitting there mid water and it sees what it perceives as a struggling or dying
bait fish you really need to have that fly stopping and pausing before it
slowly starts sinking before you strip and pause it again to try and get the
interest of that fish and hopefully get it to strike, so imaging that situation
with the pike but with 2 very different hooks, have a look below at the picture
These 2 hooks are
pretty much the same in essence except one is offset, now if you were using the
hook on the left your fly would drop very slowly on the pause , whereas the one
on the right would sink like a stone when you paused simply because it weighs
twice as much as the one on the left so what pike sees is either a natural
looking fish pattern or something which looks very unnatural when it stops and
drops fast , because remember hooks don’t have swim bladders do they , so its
really something to think about when tying big bait fish patterns , its not
just a case of chucking some material on a hook you have to think about how its
going to behave and how hook weight will effect the movement of the fly in the
water …..Think like a fish folks, of course the pike may not give a rat’s arse
but it could give you the edge on a hard day
Off course you could
just go through every fly in the box like I do sometimes but I just love seeing
the flies in the water
A big shout out to
Gabriel Orellana Mancilla
The happiest fly angler ive ever seen
Gabriel is yet again taking em down in Belgium
on my flies , hes just a catching machine just now, so delighted to stick his
picture on the blog and nice to see a great realise picture for a change no
doubt will be seeing a lot more of his flsh on my flies on the page …………….gliss
and glint plus rocks
His message to me
Hey dave lindsay your flies are fukking good! Thanks
mate!!!!
Pretty much says it all
Give me a fishing spot wont tell honest
On one of the many facebook groups I belong
too a shall we say discussion arose about people naming waters and people
wanting to know where to fish , well to be honest its really cheating a bit isn’t
it I mean bloke a gives bloke b a place to fish and even the exact spot where
bloke a had a great days fishing with x amount of fish , now bloke b turns up
at that spot the bloke a told him about on facebook and catches a few fish ,
bloke b thinks hes a great angler er no
What the bloke should have done was to
do a google search i.e Scottish lochs and get a result like below
Now me posting this is nothing controversial
and im giving nothing away that isn’t public domain but what you see is over 25
lochs in one small area, so what bloke b should of done is picked a water find
out any relavant info tickets etc and turn up , find pikey looking areas , find
baitfish, chuck in fly , lure or bait and have a go I mean it aint really rocket
science is it
Google search an area find a loch and do
the bloody legwork if you want to just turn up catch a fish and be an instant
angler turn up to a stocked trout fishery pay your money and catch a fish, if
you want to be a real angler do the legwork get out on the bank use your
watercraft (if you have any) , I once fished a water in Derbyshire for 6 months
because I had a felling it would have a decent fish in it , I chucked fly after
fly into that stinking pond and then one day I caught a 20lb fish from it ,
that one moment made every single cast into that place worth it because my
instinct had been right the legwork had been worth it I never fished that place
again , I got the maps out and moved on . that is the thrill of the chase and
the pleasure of the catch , would I have
got that if I had been told where to go …….no don’t think so get the maps out people
especially in scotland you could use up a lifetime searching them that’s being
an angler .
Do you really think if youd done that
amount of work on a water youd stick it up on a social media site, jesus Christ
no, the next weekend youd have the buckfast brigade all over the place leaving
all manner of crap on the banks or worse having some cultures turning up
emptying the place and eating all the fish believe me ive seen it happen and it
aint pretty think on people its your sport
Im going to sign of with a
picture of a rock n roll trout fly tier having a sleep at my place to avoid embarrassment
about sleeping in a my little pony duvet im not going to you it’s the destroyer
Tight lines and happy tying folks
Mcfluffchucker
(a cave in scotland)
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