boxes of fluff

[mark]

now here\'s a thing, as you do on those dark winter nights, when it is viewed as Verboten to stalk our piscine friends in the river, I tie a few flies up for the next season and sort out me boxes.

so, just how many flies have you aquired over the the years and how many patterns do you actually use, just counted mine (what an exciting life I lead) and split over 10 small boxes and 1 huge one I have over 2 thousand flies, from size 22 weeny little things to 4/o saltwater things, and probably 150 or more different patterns

but I only ever use a maybe a couple of dozen different ones, I enjoy tying em as much as using, and they are canny to look at, but jeez how many does a man need

 

[YoursTruly]

Mark, it dont matter how many you have got you always seem to need more.
So many new killing patterns, and you will probably only ever use up to a dozen patterns.
And that number is less if its rivers you are fishing, probably down to about six patterns.

 

[sless]

i remember you telling me that a few years ago terry

i think its a confidence thing
if you catch a fish on a certain fly
its automaticaly the 1st you use when you set your gear up

i only used 3 different flies last sunday
gold head nymph,cats whisker and a bloodworm
normaly i would be changing after every 6 casts

 

[mark]

all fishing tackle is seductive, but there\'s is a certain something about fly gear that just makes you want it,

its a disease and I\'m fully afflicted!

 

[sless]

more fly\'s catch anglers than fish
i know what you mean
ive got thousands of them

 

[RobAdair]

Must admit, I\'ve never flyfished in freshwater in my life (and only in saltwater a handful of times last year) and I\'ve got boxes (literally hundreds) of different patterns and colours.

Hadn\'t even realised I had the fly buying bug until I checked out www.fishandfly.co.uk and found, to my dismay, that you only need 6 patterns for ALL British saltwater flyfishing:

Lefty’s Deceiver
Clouser Deep Minnow
Deceiver
Newporth Sand Eel
Copper Frede
Fritz Shrimp

Can\'t say I\'m p*ssed off though, I enjoy having them to look at (and make no apologies if that sounds kinky )

 

[sless]

dont you fancy fly fishing in fresh water rob
its great
terry wood gives lessons at sharpley
gaan for it man

 

[mark]

I\'m not a big fan of stockie waters and a lot of folks moan that you have to pay to fish, but look at it this way, you buy say 10 or 15 quids worth of bait and spend a night at your favourite rock mark/pier/beach, catch a a few whiting and hoy em back and maybe a every third or 4th trip a codling worth keeping.....so thats 40 50 or 60 quids worth of bait for the odd fish, and a few quids worth of lost end gear

spend 15 quid at one of the many stockie waters and catch fish every time, and fish that, because the gears so light, give something like a bit of sport.

might not be everyones cup of tea, but recharges the old \'hope\' batteries for next time you hit the sea.

If I hadn\'t started fly fishing a few years back I would of flogged most of me sea gear and just kept enough to be a \'summer holiday menace\"!!


get yersel out there and give it a go

 

[willywetegg]

Got to acmit it is something that I have fancied a go at for quite a while. Maybe this year.

Jim.

 

[RobAdair]

dont you fancy fly fishing in fresh water rob
its great
terry wood gives lessons at sharpley
gaan for it man

Fancied it Graham, but I\'ve only got 9wt gear at the mo, might have a word with Terry though (even if just to improve my casting)

 

[sless]

he has rods you can use

 

[snatcher]

Got to acmit it is something that I have fancied a go at for quite a while. Maybe this year.

Jim.

Willy if you want a few tying lessons get in touch. I am sure you will enjoy it. I started tying trout flies over 40 years ago. Do much more saltwater stuff now. Check out my web page on http://www.alba-rods.co.uk/page2.htm
Biggest challenge was to construct a lure on a 22/0 circle hook its on my webpage
Just finished a parcel of marlin lures heading off to Portugal and some needlefish lures for a guy going to Cuba. If anyone needs a bit advice on anything in this area just giz a holler