I have used it and you are right it does work great frees up time for other thing but I love to fish so unless it is for real I'm just gone to fish I know I'm bad :)
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I have used it and you are right it does work great frees up time for other thing but I love to fish so unless it is for real I'm just gone to fish I know I'm bad :)
Hey Smok I found this site you might like if you don't know about it already.
http://www.historicanglingenterprises.com/
I've never seen it looks good . Thanks .. Did you ever see A River Run Through It ..I laugh so hard , You see he must have been a reenact , because the line he used would have held a lot of water , he would have to dry the line out that is way he cast that way .. After that movie ever one wanted to cast like that .. I'd tail them yes I can teach you to fish like but you don't have to now not with the lines we have today
Bro, I got the flys for fly fishing today, did you make those all by hand? Holy crap those are frig'n great!!! I mean waaaaaay better than store bought.
Love the crap outta them and can't get over how good they are. Now I don't wanna use them I wanna put them in a frame and hanging them in my Cabin Room (that's my man only room, shut up Trax and Cyber Girls don't go there) they are great.
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AAAAHHH beo,LOL ok I wont say it :(
Beowulf65 thank you for the complement but those are just for fishing :o if you would like some for display I will make some up with a little written up about each fly then you can frame it up . your very welcome
I carry a large assortment of flies in my survival kit because they don't take up any space at all and I don't think that a thousand of them weigh more than a few ounces. I will confess that I don't tie my own flies, but I buy an assortment from a reatiler that has about 20 in there of all shapes and sizes.
I also fly fish differently. I use an angling rod with a very small water filled bobber about five feet above the fly. The water adds the weight needed to cast a fly on an angling rod, and once it gets into the water it becomes neutrally buoyant and does not drag the fly under water. I slowly pull it in and "grip it and rip it" once I see something hit my line.
I have always wanted to learn to fly fish, is it really hard to pick up, or should I give it a try? I want to take a fly rod on my river hike this winter (Arizona winter) and use it to catch food to eat.
It is very ease to fly fish get a few mag. and read , see if you have a club in your area people make to much out it .Patterns are no big deal all you need is may be 20 or so and your good . I very seldom cast more then 30 feet when fishing ...fill free to ask me what ever and if I can help I will ...:)
Put the flies and some line in with my kit, going to check my grndpaps old rod tonight, if its workable I'll be picking your brain on how to ue it (fly fish with it) and start fly fishing.
I can cast a flyrod but my problem is that i don't know how to tie. We'll work on that though wont we Smok. And lack of experience means i don't know how to "match the hatch". Or do you just see what they are eating and use a fly that looks a lot like it?
I stopped at Wally World and in the sewing department I picked up 5 sewing machine bobbins for about $1.69 or something like that. Anyway, I can put a couple of hundred feet on a bobbin and it takes up no room at all. Once I have the thread on I take some masking tape and cover the bobbin so the line doesn't come undone. I have two flys, three hooks, a jig, my bobbin and four split shot in a 35mm film can.
Once you catch your first fish fly fishing you will be hooked (no cheap pun this time). It's almost like art in motion to fly fish. Serenity at its apex. For those of you that tie, my hat is off to you.
I love tying, it's so cool to catch a fish on an imitation bug you made yourself. Rick, just get yourself a "starter" set from Cabela's or someplace and dive in! It's a great hobby and if you get your kids involved, really cool. To top it off, our Fly-fishing/Fly-tyer's club likes to help the Boy Scouts earn their "Fly fishing" merit badge; at that time we also give a lesson in fly-tying as well.:cool:Quote:
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moreover, alder is a supple hardwood, far more prone in it's green state to bending than to breaking. it and maple switches [suckers] make great cane poles.
for improvised natural line, nettle makes a decent strength cordage even in small diameters and has long fibers, as does flax. i'm not the best at cordage so i'll have to play around with it.
as for fly fishing, the most versatile flies i've used are the small, dime per dozen cork poppers. they've netted me trout, panfish/sunfish, yellow perch and black bass and i've used them on a cane pole easily.
Anybody tried noodling?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling
Any tips?
here is another thread
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...light=tickling
I don't know about that Noodling thing I saw the "Girls gone Noodling" and I am thinking those girls are to tough for me :rolleyes:
Smok, come here! (whispers as they walk). It wasn't noodling, okay? It was the DVD I gave you, remember? About spring break?
Closest I've come to that is braiding horse hair to make a line. Start with three hairs from the tail - adding one piece at a time to continue your line. White hair is strongest for some reason. I've been monkying with this for years, and have about 10 yards of line. It won't handle a very heavy fish, but is fine for pan fish, blue gills and the like.Quote:
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For hooks, my grandfather used to use two different things found in nature, a thorn, or a small piece of bone. The thorn would have a "hook" shape, and the bone would be straight, pointed at both ends, and tied in the center, with the line looped around one end. Of course, he was a naturally good fisherman, and didn't need much of anything to catch fish.
I have a small pocket fishing kit I inherited from grandfather. It is a round home-made brass box with a hinged cover, about four inches across and an inch deep. Inside, it has two layers of thick felt. You place the points of your hooks in the felt and line is wound up inside the box. All you need for a pocket fisherman's kit. I've replaced his old black braided line with some Spider Wire. It is excellent line and very strong.
My nephews in Oklahoma have become very good at "noodling." I've tried it a couple of times, but I have a fear of snapping turtles in the brown water they have down there. Grandfather was very good at "tickling trout." I've done that a few times, but have had many more failures than successes.
One thing we used to do when I was a kid - a bunch of us kids would trap steelhead in shallow water and crowd them up to the bank where we could kick them on to land. We'd do this on the upper reaches of Lake Superior streams. Not an elegant way of fishing, but they tasted the same. Also, not legal.
We also used to get suckers with pitch forks - when they were spawning, but anyone can do this. Trouble was, we'd always get too many. Far as I know, this is legal.
I was out paddling with the wife a few years back. We were on a wilderness lake, and Wing remarked it would have been nice to have brought a fish rod as she was hankering for fish. About that time, I noticed something on the water in front of us. I thought it was a turtle, so paddled over to see. Turned out to be a four pound northern sunning himself. I took my paddle, turned the blade so it was knife edge down, and wacked the northern on the head. We ate good that night.
I was telling a game warden friend of mine about it, and he told me, "That is illegal, you know." I laughed at him and told him, "Any fish I can catch by hitting it with a stick - is mine!"