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The above fly, my version of the Fuzzball (#22 in the picture) , is the fly I expect I'll use most on my last day on the River this year (tomorrow). A truly simple tie. Tail (optional)- Couple strands micro fibbets, hackle fibers or zelon. Body- Olive thread or Olive Uni-Stretch Wing- Dun Snowshoe Hare Tie in the tails. Wrap body. Tie in with a couple thread wraps a tuft of grey snowshoe hare foot fur with tips just reaching the start of the hook bend. Then double the remainder of the tuft back over the the body and the wing. Tie down and finish head. Trim the doubled over wing to the same length as the bottom part of the wing (i.e. to the start of the hook bend.) Soak with Watershed or similiar over night or just dope it up with floatant on stream and go fishing. Works dry but can be retrieved back "damp". g.c. |
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George Cleveland wrote:
http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/034852.jpg The above fly, my version of the Fuzzball (#22 in the picture) , is the fly I expect I'll use most on my last day on the River this year (tomorrow). A truly simple tie. Tail (optional)- Couple strands micro fibbets, hackle fibers or zelon. Body- Olive thread or Olive Uni-Stretch Wing- Dun Snowshoe Hare George that looks like very productive pattern, but I am wondering why you relate it to BWO family? It certainly could not be due to the blue wings ;). |
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George,
Report you success or the other for your last day this season. I wish I was in Wisc. tomarrow and Thurs. Have a great one! Joel Axelrad **DFD** |
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:12:16 -0700, "bruiser"
wrote: George, I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on the water. bruce h I think a "regulation" Fuzzball does have a denser wing but I've found it to be overkill in most of the water I fish. It really is the only dry fly style I've needed to match the smaller mayflies and caddis (#20 and smaller) this year. g.c. |
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:12:16 -0700, "bruiser"
wrote: George, I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on the water. bruce h I think a "regulation" Fuzzball does have a denser wing but I've found it to be overkill in most of the water I fish. It really is the only dry fly style I've needed to match the smaller mayflies and caddis (#20 and smaller) this year. g.c. |
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Gary M wrote:
George Cleveland wrote: http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/034852.jpg The above fly, my version of the Fuzzball (#22 in the picture) , is the fly I expect I'll use most on my last day on the River this year (tomorrow). A truly simple tie. Tail (optional)- Couple strands micro fibbets, hackle fibers or zelon. Body- Olive thread or Olive Uni-Stretch Wing- Dun Snowshoe Hare George that looks like very productive pattern, but I am wondering why you relate it to BWO family? It certainly could not be due to the blue wings ;). BWO's (at least out West) aren't a "family" in the scientific sense. There are many different insects that are referred to as Blue Winged Olives. They vary in size (usually small), color and other characteristics. Many BWO's aren't blue or olive. To my eyes, most are varied shades of gray. In my part of Colorado, they range from a size 18 down to about a 26. I have lots of effective patterns for the insects that are 18 and 20 but when the natural insect gets below a 20, the effectiveness of the many patterns I've tried goes way down. When the 18's are hatching, I can fish the same fly and go from one rising fish to the next, sometimes getting takes from each fish I present to. As the size of the natural drops, patterns seem to become less effective (or the difficulty in presenting them well goes up). There's a very tiny one hatching right now on my home river. I can generally get a fish out of each pod of feeding fish. It doesn't seem to matter what pattern I'm using, I can even use a fly that's a couple sizes too big. After the first fish is taken, it seems that the fish become alerted. Although they continue to readily feed on naturals, I can see frequents turns of fish to look at my fly that end in refusals when they get about 6 inches to a foot away. After a single fish refuses a given fly, they usually just ignore it in the future, not even turning to look at it when it passes. A fly change will provoke renewed interest and with about one out of four fly changes, resulting in a take. Then back to ignoring. Part of the problem, I know, is presentation. The fish are fairly hefty and I don't like going below 6X. 7 or 8X would make for a better presentation and result in more takes. However my experience is that when trout are rising to tiny Mayflies or midges, of all the patterns I've used, none are as effective as the patterns we use to represent larger insects. Although a given pattern will take an occasional fish, it's unusual to find a pattern that most of the feeding fish will take. I think that when our patterns go below a size twenty, the materials we use are too "gross" for a good representation. Our saving grace when fishing the small stuff, is that the trout have to eat ALOT of the insects to get a meal and with some many feedings, the chances that they'll make a mistake goes up. Willi |
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Gary M wrote:
George Cleveland wrote: http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/034852.jpg The above fly, my version of the Fuzzball (#22 in the picture) , is the fly I expect I'll use most on my last day on the River this year (tomorrow). A truly simple tie. Tail (optional)- Couple strands micro fibbets, hackle fibers or zelon. Body- Olive thread or Olive Uni-Stretch Wing- Dun Snowshoe Hare George that looks like very productive pattern, but I am wondering why you relate it to BWO family? It certainly could not be due to the blue wings ;). BWO's (at least out West) aren't a "family" in the scientific sense. There are many different insects that are referred to as Blue Winged Olives. They vary in size (usually small), color and other characteristics. Many BWO's aren't blue or olive. To my eyes, most are varied shades of gray. In my part of Colorado, they range from a size 18 down to about a 26. I have lots of effective patterns for the insects that are 18 and 20 but when the natural insect gets below a 20, the effectiveness of the many patterns I've tried goes way down. When the 18's are hatching, I can fish the same fly and go from one rising fish to the next, sometimes getting takes from each fish I present to. As the size of the natural drops, patterns seem to become less effective (or the difficulty in presenting them well goes up). There's a very tiny one hatching right now on my home river. I can generally get a fish out of each pod of feeding fish. It doesn't seem to matter what pattern I'm using, I can even use a fly that's a couple sizes too big. After the first fish is taken, it seems that the fish become alerted. Although they continue to readily feed on naturals, I can see frequents turns of fish to look at my fly that end in refusals when they get about 6 inches to a foot away. After a single fish refuses a given fly, they usually just ignore it in the future, not even turning to look at it when it passes. A fly change will provoke renewed interest and with about one out of four fly changes, resulting in a take. Then back to ignoring. Part of the problem, I know, is presentation. The fish are fairly hefty and I don't like going below 6X. 7 or 8X would make for a better presentation and result in more takes. However my experience is that when trout are rising to tiny Mayflies or midges, of all the patterns I've used, none are as effective as the patterns we use to represent larger insects. Although a given pattern will take an occasional fish, it's unusual to find a pattern that most of the feeding fish will take. I think that when our patterns go below a size twenty, the materials we use are too "gross" for a good representation. Our saving grace when fishing the small stuff, is that the trout have to eat ALOT of the insects to get a meal and with some many feedings, the chances that they'll make a mistake goes up. Willi |
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George,
I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on the water. bruce h |
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George,
I fish a ton with a similar pattern - except I use Moose hair for the tail and make the wing a little smaller and denser. Willi showed me the pattern and it morphed a little at my vise. It's really effective in fast and slow water and that's the best thing about that fly - and it's easy to spot on the water. bruce h |
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Willi & Sue wrote in
: BWO's (at least out West) aren't a "family" in the scientific sense. There are many different insects that are referred to as Blue Winged Olives. They vary in size (usually small), color and other characteristics. Many BWO's aren't blue or olive. To my eyes, most are varied shades of gray. snipped interesting stuff Good info Willi. Local rivers here in the Northeast do exhibit the same variety in size for Olives, but they do all have blue to slate colored wings and are all olive, at least on the bottom of the abdomen (trico duns also have olive bodies making the BWO a good choice early in the hatch before the fish focus on the spinner fall). There are large olives in the Spring and smaller varieties as the season progress. The waters I fish don't see the pods of feeders you refer to, but when there is a decent hatch going it will usually be the choice pattern over all else on the water. Cloudy days in Vermont about this time of year are wonderful for both olive and caddis hatches and one of my favorite times to fish. The scenery is not too shabby either! |
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On 29 Sep 2004 01:38:09 GMT, (Joel Axelrad) wrote:
George, Report you success or the other for your last day this season. I wish I was in Wisc. tomarrow and Thurs. Have a great one! Joel Axelrad **DFD** Hubris is usually punished, ainna? The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's one of them. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next year. Hopefully so will I. g.c. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg |
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George Cleveland wrote:
The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's one of them. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next year. Hopefully so will I. g.c. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg Pretty fish. Too bad all your streams close so early. Brookies and Fall seem to go together. Although Brookies are always a colorful fish, in Fall they seem to glow. Willi |
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George Cleveland wrote:
The Fuzzball did take a few tiny fish during the early morning BWO emergence but after that waned so did any success with my little harey footed flies. I did catch a few decent fish. All on Pass Lakes. Here's one of them. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035027.jpg I fished the afternoon with a friend. He took a few on small streamers. This was his best, a nice clean female. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035028.jpg While I didn't have many fish to show for my 7 hours on the water I did get to spend time outside on what would have to be considered a perfect Fall day. And after all, the River will still be there next year. Hopefully so will I. g.c. http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/035032.jpg Pretty fish. Too bad all your streams close so early. Brookies and Fall seem to go together. Although Brookies are always a colorful fish, in Fall they seem to glow. Willi |
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"Willi & Sue" wrote in message Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of fibbets? I like the way they look and float I guess, and usually just use four (two on each side) to make a tail. Some moose hair has really pretty thin tips. And I prefer natural materials ;-) bruce h |
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:57:15 -0700, "bruiser"
wrote: "Willi & Sue" wrote in message Why do you use moose hair for the tail instead of fibbets? And I prefer natural materials ;-) bruce h As good a reason as any other. g.c. |
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As soon as they start making artificial moose hair, I'll be all over it.
And I forgot to tell you that I wrap the abdomen with pink flashabou :-) bruce h |
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As soon as they start making artificial moose hair, I'll be all over it.
And I forgot to tell you that I wrap the abdomen with pink flashabou :-) bruce h |
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