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![]() "Peter Charles" wrote Thanks for the suggestions guys, however, I'm hoping to find entomology sites rather than fly tying sites so I can find the pictures of the actual bugs rather than somebody's idea of what the fly should be. In my limited experience you are dead on track .... catching the real bug and using that as a model is FAR more satisfying than imitating an imitation ..... but 99% of flies are developed the second way, varying existing patterns without ever looking at a bug. After your research, you'll likely end up with something similar to existing flies but you'll fish it with much more confidence ... the key ingredient of any pattern, imho. I'm just started on my own selection of "copied from real models" patterns, maybe 1/3 the bugs I fish over ... it is very worth the effort. The first was a Trico spinner 10 years ago. After a long not very successful day watching fish reject a store bought poly wing spinner on Silver Creek I broke down, seined some bugs, got out the magnifier and ... Whoa, Homer .. they don't look that much like the store bought pattern. I dug through my stuff, tied up a couple different experiments and the next day I hooked fish nearly at will, even broke one fish off then landed him later with my new pattern still stuck in his jaw and got my fly back. I got so damn arrogant that I stopped on Kilpatrick Bridge and told some guy to pick out a fish and I'd catch it ... did catch the one he pointed to, too G ( although I detected his "what as asshole" glance and have regretted my arrogant display ever since then .... but that is what real models can do to you :-) I know it's Winter, but catching the bug is better than even a good picture |
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:22:19 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote: "Peter Charles" wrote Thanks for the suggestions guys, however, I'm hoping to find entomology sites rather than fly tying sites so I can find the pictures of the actual bugs rather than somebody's idea of what the fly should be. In my limited experience you are dead on track .... catching the real bug and using that as a model is FAR more satisfying than imitating an imitation .... but 99% of flies are developed the second way, varying existing patterns without ever looking at a bug. After your research, you'll likely end up with something similar to existing flies but you'll fish it with much more confidence ... the key ingredient of any pattern, imho. I'm just started on my own selection of "copied from real models" patterns, maybe 1/3 the bugs I fish over ... it is very worth the effort. The first was a Trico spinner 10 years ago. After a long not very successful day watching fish reject a store bought poly wing spinner on Silver Creek I broke down, seined some bugs, got out the magnifier and ... Whoa, Homer .. they don't look that much like the store bought pattern. I dug through my stuff, tied up a couple different experiments and the next day I hooked fish nearly at will, even broke one fish off then landed him later with my new pattern still stuck in his jaw and got my fly back. I got so damn arrogant that I stopped on Kilpatrick Bridge and told some guy to pick out a fish and I'd catch it ... did catch the one he pointed to, too G ( although I detected his "what as asshole" glance and have regretted my arrogant display ever since then .... but that is what real models can do to you :-) I know it's Winter, but catching the bug is better than even a good picture Ya, fun to do that eh? I had a gentleman on one nice Grand day, who felt that it was necessary to give me detailed instructions on my dry technique (or lack thereof). Anyway, the risers were mostly big creek chubs in full maiting colours so I hung on a mini-brown instead and after catching about a dozen browns in the space of about 15 minutes, including the biggest fish in the pool that he had fished to unsuccessfully, he eventually broke down and asked me what I was using. Loved it! Peter turn mailhot into hotmail to reply Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...ers/index.html |
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