On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:37:40 -0800, "bugcaster"
wrote:


"Peter Charles" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:05:33 -0500, "Tim J."
wrote:

Peter Charles wrote:
Lost a fly line on a fish and later recovered it. All of the action
was on the brown trout weamer. DDFS swappers take note.

Yeah, the way you've been promoting it, I'm anxious to give it a shot.
That's one *hell* of a fish in the photo!


Bad news is, I tied 8 weamers for the swap and used 'em all on these
fish. My bad. [slap, OUCH!]


I'm anxious to try that fly, you may have to start mailing them off one at a
time to beat the temptation of fishing them.

I went hunting to find the source, and perhaps patterns, and did find some
of your photos on the flyfishingforum. I could not find the brown trout
weamer, have you posted this most secret of patterns?



Got to

http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...new/index.html

Flies, Weamers.

This site isn't finished but the weamer section is close to complete.

It's a combination of how the fly is made and how it's fished. It
gets the name because it's made like part spey wet fly and part
streamer and it's fished the same half 'n' half way. It's swung
rather than stripped but the line should be mended and the rod tip
held to maximize a broadside to the current presentation so it swims
like a minnow. It lends itself very well to spey casting, since there
is no stripping, the line on the dangle can simply be picked up and
casted. Very efficient.

It's the only streamer-like pattern I've used that can be effectively
fished in slow, clear water. It doesn't sag in slow currents like a
regular streamer plus it remains life-like even when there's little
current to work it, plus the profile is natural enough to work in
clear water. Still it's most effective in what I've started think of
as "weamer water", slow to medium currents and visibility of 2' to 4'.





Peter

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