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Da February 7th, 2007 04:13 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?

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salmobytes February 7th, 2007 05:18 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 9:13 am, "Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?



.....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


Ken Fortenberry February 7th, 2007 05:23 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.

http://www.waterwisp.com/

--
Ken Fortenberry


[email protected] February 7th, 2007 05:35 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 11:13 am, "Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?

http://www.versacorp.cn
Blog:http://www.versacorp.cn/default.asp


One of my favorite fly pattern's is an upside down parachute adams
like fly that i call the reverse adams. To tie it is simple; put your
fly in the vice upside down, that is, with the point up and the shank
down, then tie the typical fly patern on the high side of the hook.
when finished the fly's parachute will hold the point from spinning
back down into the water. the fly sits on the water with the hook
point in the air.
enjoy, its one of my favorites for brookies



Larry L February 7th, 2007 06:15 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 

"salmobytes" wrote


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


there are several variations out there ... all designed to keep the bend of
the hook up during the float. FWIW, all the ones I've tried sucked every
place except in the vise and in pictures, poor hookers, poor floaters.



salmobytes February 7th, 2007 06:53 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 

One of my favorite fly pattern's is an upside down parachute adams
like fly that i call the reverse adams.


..........ahhhhh. A Parachute with a hook that points up.
Makes great logical sense. I tried it, many years ago, and
what I tied had a tendency to land upside down, or to
land on its side. So I abandoned it.

Seems to work for you, however.


jules February 7th, 2007 08:18 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 1:53 pm, "salmobytes" wrote:
One of my favorite fly pattern's is an upside down parachute adams
like fly that i call the reverse adams.


.........ahhhhh. A Parachute with a hook that points up.
Makes great logical sense. I tried it, many years ago, and
what I tied had a tendency to land upside down, or to
land on its side. So I abandoned it.

Seems to work for you, however.


If your post (middle of parachute, typically calf tail) is long
enough, and the hackle your using is long enough it will stay floating
the right way. its good for light hitting fish, because the hook is
already pointing up, so you hook them right on the nose.
jules, see you on the water.


vincent p. norris February 8th, 2007 02:17 AM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern?


Brian Clarke and John Goddard, Brits, in their book The Trout and the
Fly, discuss this fly design at length and provide illustrated
step-by-step tying instructions.

There was also did a program on Public Television (in the USA) titled
"Educated Trout" in which they did the same.

vince

[email protected] February 8th, 2007 04:25 AM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.

http://www.waterwisp.com/


I didn't see, so I didn't follow his link, and have no intention of
looking for it, but simply from the information at hand, I suspect he
may be talking about keel flies...there was at least one book in the 70s
about these...I've "tied" (really, made - it's more that a tie) snagless
Sallies for bass this way. Keels are a special-purpose fly/lure, on a
special hook, and unless recipe supports it and the reason is there,
there's, um, well, no reason. And in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.

TC,
R

[email protected] February 8th, 2007 04:26 AM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On 7 Feb 2007 12:18:37 -0800, "jules" wrote:

On Feb 7, 1:53 pm, "salmobytes" wrote:
One of my favorite fly pattern's is an upside down parachute adams
like fly that i call the reverse adams.


.........ahhhhh. A Parachute with a hook that points up.
Makes great logical sense. I tried it, many years ago, and
what I tied had a tendency to land upside down, or to
land on its side. So I abandoned it.

Seems to work for you, however.


If your post (middle of parachute, typically calf tail) is long
enough, and the hackle your using is long enough it will stay floating
the right way. its good for light hitting fish, because the hook is
already pointing up, so you hook them right on the nose.
jules, see you on the water.


On the nose, huh? Well, the joke will be on you if they are wearing
those fake nose-and-glasses things...



salmobytes February 8th, 2007 01:21 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 7:17 pm, vincent p. norris wrote:
Brian Clarke and John Goddard, Brits, in their book The Trout and the
Fly, discuss this fly design at length and provide illustrated
step-by-step tying instructions.


FWIW: (for what little it's worth)
The first fly tying article I wrote was a piece about a
bottom-mounted parachute mayfly dun, published in
Dick Surrette's Fly Tyer in 1978.

I tied that fly with an upturned hook--for a while--but by
by the time I wrote about it (substantially pre-dating Goddard
et al) I had already abandoned the upturned hook, because
it all-too-often landed upside down, and the Parachute post
all-too-often acted like a weedless hook guard, that
kept the fly from hooking properly.

It sounds like others have made this (difficult to tie) fly
work for them, but it didn't work for me. The bottom mounted
parachute fly I published in 1978 had a down-pointing hook.


Scott Seidman February 8th, 2007 01:31 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:eWnyh.16806
:

salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.

http://www.waterwisp.com/


If I recall, didn't they develop a rep for driving the hook into the brain?

--
Scott
Reverse name to reply

jules February 8th, 2007 02:54 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 11:25 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.

And in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.

If you choose to strictly follow other people's paterns and never try
to push your own creative fly tying ability, that's your loss. the fly
that i tie works just fine (reverse adams), as do many others that i
tie based on variations of other well known flies. If you chose to use
other people's designs thats fine, but don't discourage the
adventurous tier from attempting their own variations, by saying that
their "****ing up a decent recipe". not only is this ignorant, but
without new fly variations, we wouldn't have any fly patterns to begin
with.
jules, see you on the water.



[email protected] February 9th, 2007 01:49 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On 8 Feb 2007 06:54:53 -0800, "jules" wrote:

On Feb 7, 11:25 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.

And in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.

If you choose to strictly follow other people's paterns and never try
to push your own creative fly tying ability, that's your loss. the fly
that i tie works just fine (reverse adams), as do many others that i
tie based on variations of other well known flies. If you chose to use
other people's designs thats fine, but don't discourage the
adventurous tier from attempting their own variations, by saying that
their "****ing up a decent recipe". not only is this ignorant, but
without new fly variations, we wouldn't have any fly patterns to begin
with.


First, learn to edit if you're going to snip.

You may be right...since fly fishing and tying were only invented 6 or 8
years ago, how likely could it be that several unconnected someones
haven't already tried what you might and published books about it...why,
heck, I think you ought to try working on square baseballs, carts with
the wheels on the top rather than the bottom (saves wear and tear on the
tires, donchaknow), and a microwave oven that works by simply putting
the zappicure-de-jour on the kitchen counter while the cook gets in a
protective lead box....

Feel free to be as creative as wish, but fixing what isn't broken
doesn't demonstrate much "imagination." There are no "new concepts" in
fly-tying; there's a reason that you don't see more "upside-down" flies,
and the fact that _you_ haven't "adventured" and attempted or imagined
them yet ain't it. Hell, in much of what they tried to do, keel flies
(which weren't a new concept 40 years ago) worked, yet try to go and
find a package of keel hooks (and at one time, Mustad, Eagle Claw, and
3-4 others made them).

And I never said _no_ pattern will work adapted to an "upside-down" or
any other particular variation won't work, only that "tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up." I was right then,
and I'll be right after another 500-plus years of "modern-style"
flytying.

jules,


see you on the water.


Depends on where you fish.
R
....and come, on - an "adventurous" tyer? Please...unless your tying
consists of hand-ties using fresh black widow silk to lash large, live
raptors to razor-sharp grappling hooks while tiger-hunting from a howdah
on bull elephant that you personally selected for his short temper, you
ain't essactly Francis ****in' Drake-meets-Robert Ruark...

jules February 9th, 2007 05:33 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 9, 8:49 am, wrote:
On 8 Feb 2007 06:54:53 -0800, "jules" wrote:



On Feb 7, 11:25 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry


wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.
And in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.


If you choose to strictly follow other people's paterns and never try
to push your own creative fly tying ability, that's your loss. the fly
that i tie works just fine (reverse adams), as do many others that i
tie based on variations of other well known flies. If you chose to use
other people's designs thats fine, but don't discourage the
adventurous tier from attempting their own variations, by saying that
their "****ing up a decent recipe". not only is this ignorant, but
without new fly variations, we wouldn't have any fly patterns to begin
with.


First, learn to edit if you're going to snip.

You may be right...since fly fishing and tying were only invented 6 or 8
years ago, how likely could it be that several unconnected someones
haven't already tried what you might and published books about it...why,
heck, I think you ought to try working on square baseballs, carts with
the wheels on the top rather than the bottom (saves wear and tear on the
tires, donchaknow), and a microwave oven that works by simply putting
the zappicure-de-jour on the kitchen counter while the cook gets in a
protective lead box....

Feel free to be as creative as wish, but fixing what isn't broken
doesn't demonstrate much "imagination." There are no "new concepts" in
fly-tying; there's a reason that you don't see more "upside-down" flies,
and the fact that _you_ haven't "adventured" and attempted or imagined
them yet ain't it. Hell, in much of what they tried to do, keel flies
(which weren't a new concept 40 years ago) worked, yet try to go and
find a package of keel hooks (and at one time, Mustad, Eagle Claw, and
3-4 others made them).

And I never said _no_ pattern will work adapted to an "upside-down" or
any other particular variation won't work, only that "tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up." I was right then,
and I'll be right after another 500-plus years of "modern-style"
flytying.

jules,
see you on the water.


Depends on where you fish.
R
...and come, on - an "adventurous" tyer? Please...unless your tying
consists of hand-ties using fresh black widow silk to lash large, live
raptors to razor-sharp grappling hooks while tiger-hunting from a howdah
on bull elephant that you personally selected for his short temper, you
ain't essactly Francis ****in' Drake-meets-Robert Ruark...


"Fly fishing and tying only started 6 or 8 years ago"????? hopefully
you mean 60 or 80??? either way you need to check your sources, try
uummm a hell of a lot longer ago than that.
"fixing what ain't broken isn't imagination" well, its not a matter of
fixing something thats not broken, rather, taking attributes of a
tried and tested pattern, and adapting them to a new fly to get
similar results with an ulterior specific purpose. there is no messing
up designs involved with this logic, simply referencing anothers ideas
to suit your needs. Besides, in the upside down flies case, i still
keep the exact same fly ("the correct way") in my box anyways.
"there's no new concepts in fly tying", what the hell kind of
statement is that??? tiers have not tied _all_ the types of bugs in
the world (that fish eat), n'or have they developed _all_ the possible
methods to produce any given representation of already existing flies.
Hence, in order to do so, they would have to "invent" new tactics to
accomplish this.
The fact that you would create such a rediculous comparison between a
simple fly variation and "square baseballs" and "widow silk wrapped
raptors", just demeans yourself. The soul purpose of writing my
initial comment, was to illuminate the fact that i had addapted a
pattern to better suit my needs, and that it worked just fine in my
experience, also, that maybe this person should give it a try.
This has turned into a question of whether or not a person can be
creative in their own right. my simple conclusion for you is; if you
don't want to try my fly, fine don't try it. but if you are going to
start discouraging polite people from having a discussion about
something that they might be interested in trying, i say shame on you.
Fishing is a sport which alows an idividual to grow and expand their
knowledge and happiness, not create stress over whether or not a fly
is exact to receipy or if their variation is any good or not.
Variations is how we discover, and is the reason why we continue to
tie.
See you on the water.
Jules.


[email protected] February 9th, 2007 06:01 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On 9 Feb 2007 09:33:59 -0800, "jules" wrote:

On Feb 9, 8:49 am, wrote:

If you choose to strictly follow other people's paterns and never try
to push your own creative fly tying ability, that's your loss. the fly
that i tie works just fine (reverse adams), as do many others that i
tie based on variations of other well known flies. If you chose to use
other people's designs thats fine, but don't discourage the
adventurous tier from attempting their own variations, by saying that
their "****ing up a decent recipe". not only is this ignorant, but
without new fly variations, we wouldn't have any fly patterns to begin
with.


First, learn to edit if you're going to snip.

You may be right...since fly fishing and tying were only invented 6 or 8
years ago, how likely could it be that several unconnected someones
haven't already tried what you might and published books about it...why,
heck, I think you ought to try working on square baseballs, carts with
the wheels on the top rather than the bottom (saves wear and tear on the
tires, donchaknow), and a microwave oven that works by simply putting
the zappicure-de-jour on the kitchen counter while the cook gets in a
protective lead box....

Feel free to be as creative as wish, but fixing what isn't broken
doesn't demonstrate much "imagination." There are no "new concepts" in
fly-tying; there's a reason that you don't see more "upside-down" flies,
and the fact that _you_ haven't "adventured" and attempted or imagined
them yet ain't it. Hell, in much of what they tried to do, keel flies
(which weren't a new concept 40 years ago) worked, yet try to go and
find a package of keel hooks (and at one time, Mustad, Eagle Claw, and
3-4 others made them).

And I never said _no_ pattern will work adapted to an "upside-down" or
any other particular variation won't work, only that "tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up." I was right then,
and I'll be right after another 500-plus years of "modern-style"
flytying.

jules,
see you on the water.


Depends on where you fish.
R
...and come, on - an "adventurous" tyer? Please...unless your tying
consists of hand-ties using fresh black widow silk to lash large, live
raptors to razor-sharp grappling hooks while tiger-hunting from a howdah
on bull elephant that you personally selected for his short temper, you
ain't essactly Francis ****in' Drake-meets-Robert Ruark...


Second, learn to edit if you're going to snip...

"Fly fishing and tying only started 6 or 8 years ago"????? hopefully
you mean 60 or 80??? either way you need to check your sources, try
uummm a hell of a lot longer ago than that.


Then why would you hope I meant some other randomly-selected albeit
wrong period of time?

"fixing what ain't broken isn't imagination" well, its not a matter of
fixing something thats not broken, rather, taking attributes of a
tried and tested pattern, and adapting them to a new fly to get
similar results with an ulterior specific purpose. there is no messing
up designs involved with this logic, simply referencing anothers ideas
to suit your needs. Besides, in the upside down flies case, i still
keep the exact same fly ("the correct way") in my box anyways.
"there's no new concepts in fly tying", what the hell kind of
statement is that???


Oh, it probably has something to do with things like taking tried and
tested patterns, adapting them, and referencing another's ideas when one
is inventing totally new things...

tiers have not tied _all_ the types of bugs in
the world (that fish eat), n'or have they developed _all_ the possible
methods to produce any given representation of already existing flies.


Well, gollydamn! I never met anyone who knew what every single flytyer
who has ever lived had done...I must say, I'm impressed! If I may, I've
always wondered what a Mr. Clyde J. Slingass of Numbnuts, NY, tied on
the second Saturday of April, 1934. Could you give me a brief outline?
I'd be ever so grateful. BTW, I mean the father, who lived on Main
Street, not the son, who lived on 2 Ave. He was kind of ass - you know
the type, always thinking his stuff was all new and innovative and
courageous and stuff...

Hence, in order to do so, they would have to "invent" new tactics to
accomplish this.
The fact that you would create such a rediculous comparison between a
simple fly variation and "square baseballs" and "widow silk wrapped
raptors", just demeans yourself. The soul purpose of writing my
initial comment, was to illuminate the fact that i had addapted a
pattern to better suit my needs, and that it worked just fine in my
experience, also, that maybe this person should give it a try.
This has turned into a question of whether or not a person can be
creative in their own right. my simple conclusion for you is; if you
don't want to try my fly, fine don't try it. but if you are going to
start discouraging polite people from having a discussion about
something that they might be interested in trying, i say shame on you.
Fishing is a sport which alows an idividual to grow and expand their
knowledge and happiness, not create stress over whether or not a fly
is exact to receipy or if their variation is any good or not.
Variations is how we discover, and is the reason why we continue to
tie.


Uh-huh...

See you on the water.


...knot if eye seize ewe phirst,
R


Wolfgang February 9th, 2007 07:06 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 

wrote in message
...
On 9 Feb 2007 09:33:59 -0800, "jules" wrote:

On Feb 9, 8:49 am, wrote:

If you choose to strictly follow other people's paterns and never try
to push your own creative fly tying ability, that's your loss. the fly
that i tie works just fine (reverse adams), as do many others that i
tie based on variations of other well known flies. If you chose to use
other people's designs thats fine, but don't discourage the
adventurous tier from attempting their own variations, by saying that
their "****ing up a decent recipe". not only is this ignorant, but
without new fly variations, we wouldn't have any fly patterns to begin
with.

First, learn to edit if you're going to snip.

You may be right...since fly fishing and tying were only invented 6 or 8
years ago, how likely could it be that several unconnected someones
haven't already tried what you might and published books about it...why,
heck, I think you ought to try working on square baseballs, carts with
the wheels on the top rather than the bottom (saves wear and tear on the
tires, donchaknow), and a microwave oven that works by simply putting
the zappicure-de-jour on the kitchen counter while the cook gets in a
protective lead box....

Feel free to be as creative as wish, but fixing what isn't broken
doesn't demonstrate much "imagination." There are no "new concepts" in
fly-tying; there's a reason that you don't see more "upside-down" flies,
and the fact that _you_ haven't "adventured" and attempted or imagined
them yet ain't it. Hell, in much of what they tried to do, keel flies
(which weren't a new concept 40 years ago) worked, yet try to go and
find a package of keel hooks (and at one time, Mustad, Eagle Claw, and
3-4 others made them).

And I never said _no_ pattern will work adapted to an "upside-down" or
any other particular variation won't work, only that "tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up." I was right then,
and I'll be right after another 500-plus years of "modern-style"
flytying.

jules,
see you on the water.

Depends on where you fish.
R
...and come, on - an "adventurous" tyer? Please...unless your tying
consists of hand-ties using fresh black widow silk to lash large, live
raptors to razor-sharp grappling hooks while tiger-hunting from a howdah
on bull elephant that you personally selected for his short temper, you
ain't essactly Francis ****in' Drake-meets-Robert Ruark...


Second, learn to edit if you're going to snip...

"Fly fishing and tying only started 6 or 8 years ago"????? hopefully
you mean 60 or 80??? either way you need to check your sources, try
uummm a hell of a lot longer ago than that.


Then why would you hope I meant some other randomly-selected albeit
wrong period of time?

"fixing what ain't broken isn't imagination" well, its not a matter of
fixing something thats not broken, rather, taking attributes of a
tried and tested pattern, and adapting them to a new fly to get
similar results with an ulterior specific purpose. there is no messing
up designs involved with this logic, simply referencing anothers ideas
to suit your needs. Besides, in the upside down flies case, i still
keep the exact same fly ("the correct way") in my box anyways.
"there's no new concepts in fly tying", what the hell kind of
statement is that???


Oh, it probably has something to do with things like taking tried and
tested patterns, adapting them, and referencing another's ideas when one
is inventing totally new things...

tiers have not tied _all_ the types of bugs in
the world (that fish eat), n'or have they developed _all_ the possible
methods to produce any given representation of already existing flies.


Well, gollydamn! I never met anyone who knew what every single flytyer
who has ever lived had done...I must say, I'm impressed! If I may, I've
always wondered what a Mr. Clyde J. Slingass of Numbnuts, NY, tied on
the second Saturday of April, 1934. Could you give me a brief outline?
I'd be ever so grateful. BTW, I mean the father, who lived on Main
Street, not the son, who lived on 2 Ave. He was kind of ass - you know
the type, always thinking his stuff was all new and innovative and
courageous and stuff...

Hence, in order to do so, they would have to "invent" new tactics to
accomplish this.
The fact that you would create such a rediculous comparison between a
simple fly variation and "square baseballs" and "widow silk wrapped
raptors", just demeans yourself. The soul purpose of writing my
initial comment, was to illuminate the fact that i had addapted a
pattern to better suit my needs, and that it worked just fine in my
experience, also, that maybe this person should give it a try.
This has turned into a question of whether or not a person can be
creative in their own right. my simple conclusion for you is; if you
don't want to try my fly, fine don't try it. but if you are going to
start discouraging polite people from having a discussion about
something that they might be interested in trying, i say shame on you.
Fishing is a sport which alows an idividual to grow and expand their
knowledge and happiness, not create stress over whether or not a fly
is exact to receipy or if their variation is any good or not.
Variations is how we discover, and is the reason why we continue to
tie.


Uh-huh...

See you on the water.


..knot if eye seize ewe phirst,


God, how it must hurt to be you!

Hee, hee, hee.

Wolfgang



Cyli February 9th, 2007 09:49 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On 9 Feb 2007 09:33:59 -0800, "jules" wrote:


R
...and come, on - an "adventurous" tyer? Please...unless your tying
consists of hand-ties using fresh black widow silk to lash large, live
raptors to razor-sharp grappling hooks while tiger-hunting from a howdah
on bull elephant that you personally selected for his short temper, you
ain't essactly Francis ****in' Drake-meets-Robert Ruark...


"Fly fishing and tying only started 6 or 8 years ago"????? hopefully
you mean 60 or 80??? either way you need to check your sources, try
uummm a hell of a lot longer ago than that.



He was being sarcastic.

Many of the users and posters here tend to sarcasm at certain times.
--

r.bc: vixen
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salmobytes February 14th, 2007 12:51 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 7, 9:13 am, "Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?

http://www.versacorp.cn
Blog:http://www.versacorp.cn/default.asp


upside down indeed...........
The original poster (for this thread) was commercial fly manufacturer
from China. He must be thinking "and these people (who voted for
George Bush)
have their fingers on the bomb?" Now that I think about it, I feel the
same way.

eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa hhhhhhh


Tom Nakashima February 14th, 2007 02:33 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 

"salmobytes" wrote in message
oups.com...

upside down indeed...........
The original poster (for this thread) was commercial fly manufacturer
from China. He must be thinking "and these people (who voted for
George Bush)
have their fingers on the bomb?" Now that I think about it, I feel the
same way.

eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa hhhhhhh


lol....
Wondering what the Cantonese version looks like on his monitor.
fwiw,
-tom



[email protected] March 14th, 2007 05:07 AM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On Feb 8, 12:25�am, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.


http://www.waterwisp.com/


I didn't see, so I didn't follow his link, and have no intention of
looking for it, but simply from the information at hand, I suspect he
may be talking about keel flies...there was at least one book in the 70s
about these...I've "tied" (really, made - it's more that a tie) snagless
Sallies for bass this way. *Keels are a special-purpose fly/lure, on a
special hook, and unless recipe supports it and *the reason is there,
there's, um, well, no reason. *And in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.

TC,
R


Some searches on Google using the terms "upside down fly" and "USDB"
will return several pages. For starters you can take a look at:
http://hometown.aol.com/cebushnell/page17.html

it's gives a good review of the History of Upside Down Patterns as
well as some patterns.

Salmo


[email protected] March 14th, 2007 01:32 PM

The upside-down fly pattern
 
On 13 Mar 2007 22:07:44 -0700, wrote:

On Feb 8, 12:25?am, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:22 GMT, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
"Da" wrote:
Today I have read an article about the upside-down fly design. Has any
one ever tied this pattern? Could you please share about your upside-
down fly pattern?


....never heard of an upside down fly before.
What article did you read?
Where was the article?


He could be talking about the Waterwisp.


http://www.waterwisp.com/

I didn't see, so I didn't follow his link, and have no intention of
looking for it, but simply from the information at hand, I suspect he
may be talking about keel flies...there was at least one book in the 70s
about these...I've "tied" (really, made - it's more that a tie) snagless
Sallies for bass this way. eels are a special-purpose fly/lure, on a
special hook, and unless recipe supports it and 4he reason is there,
there's, um, well, no reason.

nd in fact, simply tying any ol' fly
upside down can take a decent recipe and **** it up.

TC,
R


Some searches on Google using the terms "upside down fly" and "USDB"
will return several pages. For starters you can take a look at:
http://hometown.aol.com/cebushnell/page17.html

it's gives a good review of the History of Upside Down Patterns as
well as some patterns.


Thanks for info.

TC,
R

Salmo



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