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What are you tying today? '08-'09
- Paul Arden
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Nope 10s, Roy. Will tie some 12s too. Big duns here. Was fishing a suspender buzzer today size 12. Going to compare the suspender against local dun patterns. I don't know much about imitating duns on lakes really. Tying every night... it's going to take a lot to convince me that hackles are the way to go really. But I'm certainly open to it!
Cheers, Paul
Cheers, Paul
- Paul Arden
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Paul - those paraduns look way to neat to come from your vice.... Love that little hackles job though - just the thing for finicky autumn saltwater trout!
MSP - what's that on the back of those scuds? Is it just expoxy for something else? They look really great!
Lars
MSP - what's that on the back of those scuds? Is it just expoxy for something else? They look really great!
Lars
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Hackles or no hackles ?? !!!Paul Arden wrote:Nope 10s, Roy. Will tie some 12s too. Big duns here. Was fishing a suspender buzzer today size 12. Going to compare the suspender against local dun patterns. I don't know much about imitating duns on lakes really. Tying every night... it's going to take a lot to convince me that hackles are the way to go really. But I'm certainly open to it!
Cheers, Paul
They are really good for keeping the fly at the surface by spreading the load over a big footprint, if that is what is required and as you note, good for sinking a fly slowly on your palmer. Great as the point fly on a 'dead drift' across the wind. A good floating fly will wiggle its way across the waves, keeping suspended nymphs in the top couple of inches.
If they sink the extra draw on the fly keeps the leader straight relative to line tension, you can play with that by retrieving or giving line... fly will rise and drop
I like a big hackle dry for skipping through good waves like from the bank with a 30 mph wind stirring the bottom You could use a muddler but it can't look right in the pause bit of the retrieve.
Depending on wind on a lake, if I needed a size 10, I'd be pulling a big olive, gold rib, greenolive and a bit of sunburst hackle in the middle of the day
The naturals are a #10 ? what's the fly?
I'd be up for a big fat revpara if the weather dropped to a calm, but you know me - a right happy santa and a hackle tart of many decades standing
Have fun, my friend, sounds like you are there already
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- Paul Arden
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or maybe this?
http://www.kossiedun.com.au/Tasmania's%20Large%20Grey%20Dun.htm
on Mick;s site
:whistling:
nope that.s two tails
oops
get a photo, you may discover a new sub-species
like baetis Ardensis or something
http://www.kossiedun.com.au/Tasmania's%20Large%20Grey%20Dun.htm
on Mick;s site
:whistling:
nope that.s two tails
oops
get a photo, you may discover a new sub-species
like baetis Ardensis or something
Avon Special Emerger - the original inverse-reversed fly
see website
see website
- Paul Arden
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- Paul Arden
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Hi Paul,
That looks like a classic Highland Dun, which I have the pattern for in a book. It says 10s and 12s, but according to this up to size 8s! Cool looking fly actually, with hen pheasant wing slips for wings. Everything else is dark brown with a gold rib.
Regards,
Jo
That looks like a classic Highland Dun, which I have the pattern for in a book. It says 10s and 12s, but according to this up to size 8s! Cool looking fly actually, with hen pheasant wing slips for wings. Everything else is dark brown with a gold rib.
Regards,
Jo
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Paul looks very like March browns from home.
Different wings, similar behaviour.
Would have thought a hares ear Fuck up would be perfect
I've been tying different stuff for the last few days.
An Openshaws ghost, adapted to suit the materials i have on hand.
Took lots of attempts and some good advice from the Ozzies to get it looking right but i'm happy now.
Its keeping me sane in the jungle
Sandy
Merry Christmas to everyone :kungfo:
Different wings, similar behaviour.
Would have thought a hares ear Fuck up would be perfect
I've been tying different stuff for the last few days.
An Openshaws ghost, adapted to suit the materials i have on hand.
Took lots of attempts and some good advice from the Ozzies to get it looking right but i'm happy now.
Its keeping me sane in the jungle
Sandy
Merry Christmas to everyone :kungfo:
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