on a sad note below is a picture of the river Kennett in the UK yet again we are hearing of trout clubs clearing there sections of water of pike yup netting them out and chucking them on the bank to die don't they realise that this does a fishery no good what so ever and will only lead to an explosion of jack pike , when will these people ever learn
Thursday 25 November 2010
recycled video boxes (again)
on a sad note below is a picture of the river Kennett in the UK yet again we are hearing of trout clubs clearing there sections of water of pike yup netting them out and chucking them on the bank to die don't they realise that this does a fishery no good what so ever and will only lead to an explosion of jack pike , when will these people ever learn
Tuesday 23 November 2010
bloody modern technology
so if you fancy trying some of this very cool gliss and glint plus click the picture below to order from the chaps at deercreek
the rest of my week will consist of tying lots more of the gliss n glint plus flies , I'm heading up to a large Scottish loch next week for some boating and fluffchucking so ill look forward to trying them out and again i apologise for the rubbish quality pictures ill be back to my normal high "cough" standards of photography soon anybody got a spare camera
Friday 19 November 2010
blimey
22 year old built-wing Salmon fly tying prodigy Edwin Rist has been arrested and charged with breaking into the Natural History Museum in Tring inJune 2009 and stealing 299 rare bird skins.
On June 24 last year (2009) it is alleged there was a break-in at the museum, which is on Akeman Street in Tring. It was subsequently discovered that 299 brightly-coloured bird skins were missing, believed stolen, from a collections’ area.
The Hertfordshire constabulary website reports that "Detectives investigating the theft of 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum in Tring have charged a man in connection with the incident. Edwin Rist, aged 22, from the USA, has been charged with burglary and money laundering offences. Police have recovered the majority of the bird skins."
The skins largely included rare and brightly-coloured tropical species like male trogons and quetzals from South America as well as birds of paradise from New Guinea presumably destined for use in Rist's award winning built-wing Salmon flies.
The public part of the Natural History Museum at Tring, in Hertfordshire, opened in the late 1800s to house the collections of Lionel Walter, second Baron Rothschild and offers outstanding examples of nineteenth-century taxidermy at its very best. The Museum was bequeathed to the nation and became part of the Natural History Museum in 1938.
The Bird Group and ornithological research collections were moved out to Tring in the 1970s into a purpose-built building, which is separate from the public museum. The ornithological specimens are used in studies of comparative anatomy, osteology, zoogeography, ecology, conservation, art, archaeology, taxonomy, evolution and a variety of other subjects. For example, much of our knowledge of bird distributions in Africa is derived from these specimens.
Rist, a USA citizen was studying music in London. He is due to appear at Hemel Hempstead Magistrates court on November 26.
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Thursday 18 November 2010
get it on with the saber
Musky Country: Zero 2 Hero Trailer from RT on Vimeo.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
thanks folks
Sunday 14 November 2010
feeling the love
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FLY ART
you know I'm know by dog walkers and associated stoopid people who walk my local venue as the oddball thats throws dead parrots around on a fly rod (big pike flys to me and you) well yea of course I'm going to be using the big flys for pike but there was a time back at the end of summer that a guy who had a little fishing knowledge walked by me and did a double take , why well it was because i was using a little 5 weight and small sparkly flies for perch "ain't you the pike guy he said" yep i said , i had only talked to the guy a few weeks previously and had been using said parrots so obviously the sight of me with this outfit confused him a bit.
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but then you have to ask yourself what defines a predatory fish well to me if it eats another fish then its a predator , so we then extend that to well I'm shocked i thought you were a pike man , well i am but i will also target anything else on the fly rod that eats other fish so therefore if i want to go chase perch with a 5wgt I'm going to do that , if i want to chase trout in a stream with a 2 wgt then I'm going to do that as well why because they are predators so on that very same vain here is
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FLY CAUGHT PREDS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
top guide and Friend drew price from http://dponthefly.blogspot.com/ has been getting out in the mid November sun before the ice up and catching some lake trout on the fly and from the looks of it it does look like some blue backed bait fish (see predator)
not a million miles away my bro capsey the toad skinner is checking out the first ice of the season and still catching some pretty dam fine pickeral as well head on over to his blog to find out whats been going down with the hill billy http://pikeadventures.blogspot.com/
there is as i said at the start some fantastic new blogs around with pike in mind the latest being a nice guy called stefaan demiddele who has started his own blog go take a look here http://www.thelonesomepiker.blogspot.com/
below are a couple of stefaans flies which i love and will be doing my own take on them , nice ties there mate , go and check his blog out hes only just started it but I'm sure its going to be good well worth following
the coming week sees me tying flies and hopefully getting out on the prowl have to see what the weather does so looking forward to another fun filled week of fluff and tomorrow I'm going to be having a right rant at some very stoopid people stay tuned
Dave Lindsay
(a cave in Scotland)
Friday 12 November 2010
Thursday 11 November 2010
may the force be with you
Damon Keuhl's PIKESABER caught Muskie
(while out with guide brad bohen)
you got to hand it to uncle Greg at piketrek he just keeps pushing the boundaries of fly tying check out the new gill plates he has now they are a a pretty cool colour and i can think of a few applications that i could do with them on plain white fibres and silver eyes oh yes but that's one for later , if you don't want to wait and want to go order some then click the pic to go direct to them , while your there check out beechys fast sinking putty to turn your floating patterns into submarines
the weather here just know is a nightmare to say the least and some parts of the country being battered by gale force winds here included i decided today to have a look back over my year in pictures and stuff and although the last couple of months i haven't been out too much due to my wife having exams and trying to juggle her need to study and my other work i do i found time a little precious , of course all that stopped a few weeks ago when she took her finals so with that out the way i was going to be able to sneak a few sessions in well that's what i had planned the weather had other planes
now to cap it all I've been offered a lot of extra work but that's no bad thing as its mostly evening shifts so i can still get out during the day (when this bloody weather calms down and the other really cool thing is if i wanted to i could fish for a couple of hours while actually heading to work that sounds like a bloody great plan to me
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so back to reminiscing i just had to stick this video on from may when i just had the greatest time in Vermont with my bro roadkill Kenny this morning was particularly hot as you can see from the amount of fish hitting the surface and this was like 6am or something stupid , this morning i caught a blinking ton of different species i had a big bowfin size my leg up for a bite (that was a feckin scary evil looking thing of a fish ) i swear this fish knew i was mortified scared senseless as i was up to my backside in the water in just my shorts and a pair of crocs wet wading i swear i though my child bearing days was over (sorry sue at the store lol) i also had a large sucker (cross between a barbel and a grass carp) come right in and sit on my feet as i was fishing madness
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so just take a look at the craziness of the fish in this video ,and you'll not be surprised that I'm going back for 14 days next year and really cant wait to catch up with all the dam fine folks i met up with before and new Friends I've yet to meet yes sir its going to be fun
theres some great fly tying blogs out there and a new one has surfaced with some really nice patterns that im looking forward to following check the guy's out by clicking the picture to go to there blog .............
so with the weather forecast tonight for severe gales I'm off to batton down the hatches
later folks
dave
(a cave in scotland)
Wednesday 10 November 2010
new materials and stuff
another one this time a rainbow trout kind of colour and I've used a black sharpie pen to add some break up of colour , I'm looking forward to playing with it a bit more great stuff
if you haven't checked it out take a look at pike adventures blog , hes got his son tying flies now aww how cute is that , but cute as it may be i cant help but think that his son will be making flies while Mr capsey spend more time on the water testing them lol good plan bro
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so ill see ya in a few days as I've got mega loads to do flies buzzing around inside my head and patterns that i really need to make
tight lines Friends
Sunday 7 November 2010
a great cause please take a look
(a very worthwhile cause check out Keith Passants auction)
from the ebay auction
About this charity:
Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland is a non-profit, support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer.
Another Fantastic Item in aid of
Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland
A fantastic set of 14 Pike Flies
Hook sizes Vary from 1/0 to 6/0 and are tied with a variety of Deer Creek materials
Donated by The Pike Fly Fishing Association of Great Britain and tied by
Dave Lindsay
The flies were donated by the PFFA as a raffle prize for the 24 hour Fly-tying Marathon undertaken at the BFFI over the weekend of the 30th and 31st of October by Keith Passant.
I decided they would raise more money by Auctioning them off.
Every penny raised from this auction will go to the charity
Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland
To give you an idea of value these flies retail at anything from £2.65 to £3.95 each
Dig deep folks. You know it makes sense
There is a similar batch of these on my other items and again its all going to CfR
Thanks and good luck
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please get bidding people and show you care , if you dont want to bid then please help by posting a link on your website,blog or forum
dave lindsay
Thursday 4 November 2010
easy,cheap and deadly for predators
i am as guilty as anybody for probably making way to nice looking pike flys but you know new materials come along and you get sucked up into trying to produce fantastic looking flies with these new materials and you tend to lose your roots a little you know you caught loads of fish on these flies so why on earth would you dump these fish catching patterns and move on to other materiel's i suppose its the same as going out and buying a new TV what happened did your old TV stop playing channels well i don't know but its good fun all the same so for today i decided to revisit a couple of patterns , i have done a step by step as well for those who are new to fly tying and ill post this tomorrow as i need to put it all together
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so materials well not a lot really some 4/0 hooks , marabou from deercreek , a bit of your chosen flash colour and the eyes from piketrek , and that's pretty much it so if you tune your browser back tomorrow you ll get a full step by step this will be of more interest to those who are interested in maybe starting out fly tying than the more seasoned fly tier although saying that it just may give give you a few ideas if you do already tie flys
3 flies done in around 15 Min's including the epoxy you really cant go wrong with these patterns a simple white marabou with some flash built in and a little perch pretty much go to flies for a lot of people especially in the UK and another bonus about these flies is the fact the materials are so cheap i mean marabou is a couple of quid a packet and eyes are pence so , if you have a water that's particularly snaggy you could make up a dozen patterns for a few quid and not worry too much if you lose a couple on underwater snags although none of us like to lose tackle sometimes its where the razor gang hang out so sometimes you just have to get into there hood to get em and that means sometimes you lose gear but at least its not an expensive pattern or one that took you an hour to make
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A GREAT SCOTTISH BREAKFAST
firstly you need to butter up a couple of bits of bread and fry up a couple of bits of Lorne sausage , for those who don't known Lorne sausage is just flat square sausage meat and is well used in Scottish breakfasts and being square it doesn't fall out the sandwich when you bite into it it also tastes fantastic with an egg on top
so usually ill put an egg on top but today i had some baked beans left from my wife's breakfast so i had those on top just a case of spreading them over the top of the sausage and add a little salt , i now use sea salt because the flavour is miles better than normal mass produced salt
and there you have it a dam fine Scottish breakfast snack and ill tell you if you have this for breakfast you wont want anything else for at least 12 hours
Wednesday 3 November 2010
welcome to scotland
as you can see these hooks are perfect for the big baitfish patterns allowing plenty of movement of the fly in the water
a day for mucking about this time ive gone for some white ultra hair belly with a piketrek raptor fibre red core and a blue sf fibre back , blue is a much underused colour for pike flies and its a great colour for deeper water sometimes it just pays to experiment
these also turned up in the post today the thing about it is you travel a long way to fish sometimes and you don't always expect to catch trophy sized fish but it was a blast to do it the first one for the small mouth bass has a great story behind it , id only been in vermont for about 8 hours and 6 of those i was asleep so while i was out on the lake fishing with ken i decided to try a different fly ken shouts over to me "you got one of those things you tied with the dumbell eyes you showed me on skype last week " yes i replied you think they are worth a go "hell yea says ken" and first cast i had a trophy smallmouth on it so I'm well pleased to receive this in the post today