tweedsider
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Post by tweedsider on Sept 17, 2007 19:54:40 GMT
It was June before the first noble salar deigned to seize my offering. A little touch of mild insanity swept across the old brain waves at the time. " Bugger me , thats a bloody good pattern, I am going to fish with that for the rest of the season". So I have the result 19 migratory fish from local association water, including two at 8lb and one at 10 lb. From Tweed 4 migratory fish, best sea trout 7lb plus salmon 10 1/2 lbs. Naturally I have changed sizes as water levels have dictated, but when I have decided on the size for the day generally I have stuck to it and not wasted time trying different patterns. Anyone else tried this.
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Post by salmonking on Sept 17, 2007 20:03:36 GMT
Tweedsider, When levels were high and water pretty colored,i went with what would be discribed as an autum fly,,junction shrimp,, now whan the levels were at their peak,it was a copper tube,then down in size say a 10 treble,and was still sucssesful on the same pattern,i stuck with this for a good few weeks ,but now ive changed to a willieglum cascade style,,or the new flamethrower. I like to change after a while,and charge up my expectation.
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hornet
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Post by hornet on Sept 17, 2007 20:04:35 GMT
No 1 fly for me so far is the Silver Stoats. A tremendous fly for both Salmon and Sea Trout. It hooked my biggest Salmon this season of 13lb on the South Esk.
If i do decide to change, it will usually be a Black & Yellow Temple Dog or a Ness C.
Cheers
Hornet
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tweedsider
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Post by tweedsider on Sept 17, 2007 20:12:14 GMT
salmonking :- it boils down to confidence at the end of the day, throughout a fishing career I have had a number of brainstorm flies whithout which at the time I would not have considered putting a line in the water. Ah but who today has even heard of ,'wet proffessor', or 'heckam and red/silve/black. While on the subject, does anyone know who the,'proffessor' was, could it have been W.H. Lawrie but that is a guess?
Tweedsider
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Post by salmonnut on Sept 17, 2007 20:17:39 GMT
bye
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Post by annanangler on Sept 17, 2007 20:28:19 GMT
No1 flee for me has always been the Executioner in the summer months Various sizes, its a good Seatrout flee as well. But after seeing the nessC on another forum and tying some up they look the dogs bits and will definitely be getting more of a swim from me. Mike
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Post by turrifftackle on Sept 17, 2007 21:21:54 GMT
How about a huge experiment. Everybody fishes the same fly in different sizes all year.?
I did it about three - four years ago.
No one had heard of a Cascade. As a few used it, more asked to buy it. This snowballed until at least 80% of all anglers on the Deveron were using it . As such it was nearly the only fly catching fish. The Silver Ally, Munro Killer, Willie Gunn, Stoats Tail, Silver Doctor, Executioner etc - all were forgotten- and even now the Cascade outsells everything put together.
And oh - I do not use it very often- I fish tubes and like to get the depth right before I think about size or colour.
Frank
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Post by neptune on Sept 17, 2007 21:24:38 GMT
as ive only had 1 it was a silver stoats tail. not a cloud in the sky bright sun low water ive lost a few using a tosh which was getting a good bit of intrest but i think it inexperience that caused the loss
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Post by tweedsider on Sept 18, 2007 6:20:28 GMT
Hello Frank of Turriff that was my idea an experiment, reasoning being that the pursuit quarry was not feeding it should grab any old bit of silk and fur which hovered past its nose. Of course could become unstuck just as readily despite the confidenc factor. Rgds Tweedsider
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