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Its aways nice to recieve positive feedback from readers that have been fishing with my flies. This top one is of Nicolas Cote from Canada with a nice snotrocket caught with one of my brown salamander gurglebugs.
And this fantastic Zander caught by Michel Van der kruijs with one of my double tandem rigs. Thanks lads for sending these in.
Heres a great fly tutorial called the Barto Minnow for you to try out. My only niggle is the use of Icelandic sheep hair on this fly. Yes it has great movement but is probably one of the worst materials for using on pike flies and there are some better synthetic materials out on the market that work just as good and are a hell of a lot more pike mouth friendly.Saying that though I think this fly will kick ass in the water.
So after some considerable deliberation, I've decided to go with this Orange/Black rattle n hum as one of my hooked flies for this season. Perfect for wading, fishing in low and bright conditions & after looking back on previous years stats will be a consistant colour scheme for all areas of the island. Easy to tie, has a nice mix of materials and swims well under the water....now to find the other 11!
Looking like my Replot stingers, you cant go wrong with a feather fur combination
Heres a nice little video from Sweden....top tip! when taking pictures of your fish, try too hide your fingers under its belly when pushing the fish forward towards the camera. this will stop you having massive fingers showing up in the end image.
Its aways nice to recieve positive feedback from readers that have been fishing with my flies. This top one is of Nicolas Cote from Canada with a nice snotrocket caught with one of my brown salamander gurglebugs.
And this fantastic Zander caught by Michel Van der kruijs with one of my double tandem rigs. Thanks lads for sending these in.
So after some considerable deliberation, I've decided to go with this Orange/Black rattle n hum as one of my hooked flies for this season. Perfect for wading, fishing in low and bright conditions & after looking back on previous years stats will be a consistant colour scheme for all areas of the island. Easy to tie, has a nice mix of materials and swims well under the water....now to find the other 11!
Not long now before the season starts for me....maybe two weeks and I'll be out chucking fluff. My clients start arriving from the 22 April so its going to be all hands on deck from then. If any of you are interested in catching the last of the Spring season, I still have a booking space open from June the 11th - 18th & A few available for the Autumn season between September - November. bookings for 2013 & 2014 seasons have already started as well.
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So I'm back on line for the forseeable future even though I still haven't got a fixed abode yet. Arrived back last week to find the owners still living in the cottage I was supposed to move into so I'm living out of a suitcase in their B&B for now. Anyway while back home in south Africa I spent some time thinking about how I was going to approch this comming season here on Replot. Being able to fish as much as I do, I really can spend the majority of my time on the water trying different leader lengths,fly designs etc etc. I want to be able to fish as simple as possible this year so I've decided to use only 12 flies altogether. 6 tube flies and 6 traditional hook flies and will be alternating each day between one another.Type/design & Colour choice for these twelve flies is going to be important yet I still want to keep things simple. I have around two weeks to finalise my fly choice and colour combos so once I've decided I'll post my finished band of misfits and the reasonings behind my choices.
