Fishing Fly Fishing - Love it. Welcome new viewers to my web page. I am a novice fly fisher woman with just my second year under my wading belt. But such is my allure to fly fishing that I can hardly seem to get enough both of knowledge and practical experience. It completely astounds me that there is so much information available on the subject. Of course now that I have access to it all via my computer I hardly have a day go by that I'm not surfing in search of new fly tyers and what they may have to impart. Having taken up fishing some 3 years ago at my semi-retirement stage in life, I was quite content to head of to the waters and cast my line with a dew worm dangling from it, oh, little did I know then. Since, I've been completely absorbed in the research of fly fishing from reading all and any material on the subject to teaching myself the art of flytying. I have tried my hand at curing some feathers and also a goat skin. Not the most pleasant part of it all but doubling the pleasure of seeing it from the very start to finish in which I may catch my trout with a fly tied with my own acquired dressings. My first experience with fly casting was a rather ironic one. I had just acquire my rod and strung my line attaching leader and tippet and now I was ready and anxious for that first feel of a trout on the end of it all. On the way home with it my husband suggests we stop of at the local stocked trout pond. It's a keep what you catch type of deal. I hurriedly prepared my rod, tied on my fly and tossed the fly in the direction of the pool. I tell you before my fly hits the water and I can take my stance as a fly fisher a large trout nails it. He's on, and he's on tight and won't let go so I have to bring him in and of course as the sign says ‘you much keep what you catch.' I figure it's a fluke and I've yet to actually cast a fly so I repeat the procedure and yep, same thing happens and I'm up two fish with out having cast my line and I might add a few dollars down. I then clipped my fly off and called it a day and decided that although the trout were literally "Dying to get out" that I was really looking for more of a challenge. Since then I have had some most enjoyable days fishing rivers,brook and streams which offer up definite challenges. I am not a purist and still enjoy bait fishing but my love for fly fishing will always prevail. Tying MidgesI have tied a fair number of flies both for trout and salmon in both dry, wet, nymphs and streamers. Most recently I've become hooked on tying the Caddis fly and the Midge and find them most challenging and down right cute. The Midge as you most likely aware are the smallest of all aquatic insects. They can be tied on a hook 16 to 26, thus far I've tied them onto hooks size 24. I had been loaned a book from Margaret at 62 Sports, my favorite of all tackle shops, called Fishing the Midge by Ed Koch. It was very interesting to read and he tells of his trials with the fly patterns he ties matching the hatch. He espounds that fly fishers over look this very important hatch and most likely because it is the most difficult to detect. Entomologists refer to Midges as members of the Diptera family being very small two-winged flies, e.g. mosquitos and gnats. Fly fishermen refer to Midges as any imitation of any small aquatic or terrestrial insect that a trout would find acceptable as food. Nevertheless, as Ed Kochs' studies of over a decade reveals that the midge plays an extremely important role in catching trout when they will not take any thing else. Trout hes caught and upon cleaning them out has found their stomachs to be packed full of these small insects so much so at times that they actually lined the trouts mouth. Remarkable isn't it that something so small could play such a role in a trouts diet. I hope that you've enjoyed reading my latest additon to my page and hope you'll drop by again to see what else you might find interesting. |
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