Kate,
Yes, both the kayak and the little GoPro perform very well, and I'm pretty pleased with both.
No, I haven't fished for real from the kayak yet. I hope to be able to do so before the autumn turns to winter.
And thanks for the good luck wishes!
Martin
Oh, that's cute, like a cuddly toy with a friendly face. :wink:
Thanks.
Cheers
Jan
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Martin,
Thank you for the kayak ride thru the canals of Copenhagen, one of my favorite cities of the world. I think you made the correct choice of the inflatable Straightedge Angler. On the video it appears to be very stable; I suppose the real test is its performance in more turbulent water. The GoPro camera is very impressive too. I felt as if I was on the smooth gliding ride of a gifted hot air balloon ride of several years ago. Have you by now taken the kayak on a fishing trip? Unwanted changes make us unhappy but without those changes we would be in an emotional meltdown. I wish you good luck in this autumn sea trout fishing. Kate
Great looking tye Eunan , great colors!!!
Rod Bo
Martin,
Here the names (standing people)
Marvin Nolte, Linda Foote, Peter Vroeg in de Wei. Arthur Greenwood "Shuck Raider", Herman Schibli, Paul Slaney "Taff", Richard Ross "Hopper", yourself, Bas Verschoor "B4sure" and Wim ter Haar "Spidey,
The row (sitting people)
Tomas Modic, [can't remember], Colin Sure, and Bart vd Schriek.
Maybe "Taff" knows the other names/nicknames
Hello I need help. Lol I was wondering if I can put a new cork handle system on a already built rod? Also what size cork would would I need. The rod is a field & stream 7"6 in length if so how. Thanks
Martin, thanks for the information. Duck season has just started here in New York State and I was fortunate to have met a duck hunter who gave me 7 duck carcasses of Mallards and Wood ducks. Skinning wasn't as bad as I had thought it would be and I was able to get most off in one piece. I will clean with a mild detergent and let them sit in Borax for a few days to die them out. Your steaming suggestion with be a great asset on ce the hides dry. Thank you.
Ditto to Clint's post. Your method makes it a breeze to tie.
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Like David above, I have always had mixed results with the wooly bugger. But this weekend, I tied up a few in black and a couple in brown, but I added a coil of lead under the body, and headed out to the Current River in SE Missouri. After nymphing without any luck, i tied on a huge black and caught a trout on the first cast. I kept throwing it, and they kept taking it. I think I had caught 10 or more before a fish snapped it off. But the spell was broken somehow... Using a different black, and then a brown, I couldn't get any more interest.
Dwayne,
Very nice variation..
The Magog pattern is one of my favorites..
beautiful, very good job with that tinsel body and good combination of cheek. I like it.
I have used real heron (grey), and it is amazing stuff. However when I can't use it my go to is goose, if used properly it looks great, try burning it yourself.
Martin, I think that Lars is thinking about shooting line. And true, if you just let go of the line then it has a slightly higher tendency to catch the handle if this is pointing inwards. My preferred method is therefore to form an O with my 1. and 2. finger, thus acting as an extra guide for the shooting line.
PS: 95 pct. right hand caster with the single handed rod, 50/50 with the double hander, 100 pct. left hand spooler ;-)
I like and fish these flies for more than 40 years. Meanwhile I keep it more simple and just use thread as body and anykind of henhackle, died or natural. It doesn't matter. The size of the hook is far more important, Size 14 and 18 gave me the greatest pleasure.
Bill,
We send the thanks on to all thos who produce the videos. As you write: there's a lot of work in making these videos.
Regarding the pager, it's a standard pager. I have made a View All Videos Paged page where you can ask for more videos in a page in the top of the page - up to 600 and even 1200 per page, which renders only 8 respectively 4 pages. It takes significantly longer time to form a page, but will give a lot less leafing through pages to find a certain interval.
Is that something useful? Then I can add a similar link to the normal page.
Martin
Thank you to GFF and all the individuals who have taken the time, effort and, possibly, expense to share their patterns and tying techniques. Having done some video tutorials in other applications I know how much behind-the-scenes work it can take to get it right. I wish we had this when I was a kid trying to teach myself how to tie. Would've saved me a ton of time if I didn't have to go to the library or buy a book every time I wanted to see what a pattern looked like.
On a separate note, is there a search method for getting to a particular page? I'd like to see what's in the middle of the 250 pages of videos but it seems the only way to get there is by clicking through 1 page at a time or by clicking on the highest page number displayed to see the next few pages.
Thanks
This is how every fishing video should be. Good for you.
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