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 Topic: Dark Arts |
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 Forum: Lure Fishing Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:02 pm Subject: Dark Arts |
There you go Kev, I've moved the thread into the Lure Fishing category. 
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4261/35452193590_377b0a2594_m.jpg Ahhh... but I don’t use my lures for coarse ... |
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| Topic: Dark Arts |
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| KZ Replies: 6 Views: 4416 |
Forum: Lure Fishing Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:29 am Subject: Dark Arts |
| Morning fishypeeps!
Not fly fishing, but then it doesn’t fit into coarse or sea either... Lures/spinning/plugs - my association water has a rule of “single hooks with a maximum gape o ... |
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| Topic: Which flies are best for Elinor in May |
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| KZ Replies: 12 Views: 6227 |
Forum: Fly Tying Discussions Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:55 am Subject: Which flies are best for Elinor in May |
| You fish at socials? That's a new development!
If you mean me, yep, I have been known to visit socials on occasion. Nope - not a personal jibe chap, more an observation of the liver damage and ... |
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| Topic: Does anyone take a fish for the pot these days? |
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Forum: General Fly Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:52 am Subject: Does anyone take a fish for the pot these days? |
| Sure do, but depends on where it's from.
Stillwater fish are often 'orrible and muddy - unless from a nig water (and I mean in excess of a couple of hundred acres at least). Have had river fish th ... |
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| Topic: Are Jig Hooks a fad? |
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| KZ Replies: 8 Views: 6591 |
Forum: Fly Tying Discussions Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:49 am Subject: Are Jig Hooks a fad? |
| Sure they are. Everything is to start with.
Dry fly was a fad once no doubt. Tenkara - there's a passing fad. Been passing for a while now. I'm giving the jig hooks a good go, will report back n ... |
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| Topic: Which flies are best for Elinor in May |
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| KZ Replies: 12 Views: 6227 |
Forum: Fly Tying Discussions Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:42 am Subject: Which flies are best for Elinor in May |
| You fish at socials? That's a new development! | |
| Topic: Spey Lines |
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| KZ Replies: 2 Views: 3594 |
Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:21 am Subject: Spey Lines |
| Brilliant - cheers a span for that Tenet.
This spey job is bloody complicated innit! Looking at head weights in grains and grammes for lines of different weights, and rods rated for certain spey w ... |
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| Topic: Spey Lines |
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Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:11 am Subject: Spey Lines |
| Looking at llines to match 12/13' DH spey rods...
The airflow multitip looks like a good dead BUT - are airflo - so do they tend to corkscrew horribly and be full of memory given that the running l ... |
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| Topic: Switch Rods |
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| KZ Replies: 10 Views: 6945 |
Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 6:31 am Subject: Switch Rods |
| Thanks again all. Yep - had got my head around the line weighting already. Logical being as a switch is designed for spey style casts.
Blankdays point over fly control is duly noted, and do not wis ... |
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| Topic: coloured wire |
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Forum: Fly Tying Discussions Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 6:16 am Subject: coloured wire |
| I bought a bulk pack of thin guage from Glasgow Angling about five years back and that included a spool of burgundy in just the shade shown and described.
Doesn't tarnish either so figure it must be ... |
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| Topic: Switch Rods |
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Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:29 pm Subject: Switch Rods |
| Thanks Doug, appreciate the feedback.
I was under no illusion that they were simply light DH rods. To be honest I find a 10' SH#7 a chore after a long day, yet a 9' #8/9 no problem. Do speycast w ... |
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| Topic: Switch Rods |
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Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:56 pm Subject: Switch Rods |
| Any of you peeps got any experience with switch rods?
Thinking of something to chase grilse and maybe sea trout. Most of the waters I fish would be fine with a 10' 8#, but a couple are a little larg ... |
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| Topic: Switch Rods |
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Forum: Tackle Talk Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:56 pm Subject: Switch Rods |
| Any of you peeps got any experience with switch rods?
Thinking of something to chase grilse and maybe sea trout. Most of the waters I fish would be fine with a 10' 8#, but a couple are a little larg ... |
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| Topic: Thornwood Springs Trout Fishery |
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| KZ Replies: 7 Views: 6454 |
Forum: General Fly Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:48 pm Subject: Thornwood Springs Trout Fishery |
| Sounds like you have a couple that are of a decent size there - like the sound and look of it, thanks for that.
I will drop in... off the road for a few weeks, will head your way in the New Year. Ch ... |
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| Topic: Tenkara |
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| KZ Replies: 34 Views: 16939 |
Forum: General Fly Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:45 pm Subject: Tenkara |
| Those high Austrian streams remind me of some of the secions of the Duchy waters in Devon I tried my tenkara kit on.
Got myself a rod, tapered and level fluoro leaders, and some of those back to fron ... |
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