Anyone up for the challenge?DUBBN wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:13 pm [quote=Bazzer69 post_id=97773 time=<a href="tel:1572926349">1572926349</a> user_id=2136]
I was fishing today on the Sacramento River for one or two Sac Footballs i today and in the past have experimented with Mylar vs Tinsel’s. Guess which wins hands down, not the flashy flies. My copies of Frank Sawyer PT’s work great as well as a Birds Nest. The flashiest fly I have success on is a Prince Nymph, even then I cut the biots way back.
I’m guide, have been for twenty six years, if anyone want to come and prove me wrong your trip is on me. If I win you donate my regular fee to our local club! I just don’t get the how and why flashy flies work in trout. Maybe bass or other predators but not around here in northern Californian. I’ve never seen a Caddis fly or a nymph wearing a diamond ring. The magic bullets of flies were mainly discovered many years ago.I would love to.DUBBN wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:13 pm [quote=Bazzer69 post_id=97773 time=<a href="tel:1572926349">1572926349</a> user_id=2136]
I was fishing today on the Sacramento River for one or two Sac Footballs i today and in the past have experimented with Mylar vs Tinsel’s. Guess which wins hands down, not the flashy flies. My copies of Frank Sawyer PT’s work great as well as a Birds Nest. The flashiest fly I have success on is a Prince Nymph, even then I cut the biots way back.
I’m guide, have been for twenty six years, if anyone want to come and prove me wrong your trip is on me. If I win you donate my regular fee to our local club! I just don’t get the how and why flashy flies work in trout. Maybe bass or other predators but not around here in northern Californian. I’ve never seen a Caddis fly or a nymph wearing a diamond ring. The magic bullets of flies were mainly discovered many years ago.
Anyone up for the challenge?
Barry
In a room full of 100 people know how to pick out the guide? Wait 30 seconds, he will tell you. Now your being rude! But in the West it goes” what do you call a eighteen year old with a drift boat? A guide”
Pm me with contact info
Barry
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I would love to.
In a room full of 100 people know how to pick out the guide? Wait 30 seconds, he will tell you.
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You kind of contradict yourself in your first and second paragraphs. Actually I see nothing wrong with Mylar gold/silver used as tinsel if you don’t have any of the metal stuff, I have some and have used it from time to time when I have run out of suitable metal tinsel. I was lucky enough to win a good batch of tinsel’s on eBay not to long ago. I do have a real problem with patterns that use garish florescence colors covered in UV resin If you bought those into my boat you would have to fish them for a least half a day before I gave you my flies that worked. There is however one big exception in my book, and that is with glo bugs. A nice bright pink yarn is the way to go. Some wools are ok, such as those from Gary LaFountaine, his flies are old enough to be called classics in their subtle use of Anton wools which easily match those of the German wools so revered by classic salmon fly tyersRoadkill wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:33 am I use Opal and Pearl Mylar as Ron said because of the translucent effect and also because of the iridescent color effect of the material. The Opal, Pearl and Holographic mylars offer a different flash than plain old tinsels.
I tie with metal tinsels as well as older Mylar silver and gold flat tinsels, also the newer Mylar with one color on one side and something different on the other. Over 60 years ago at my first tying lesson, I learned that a change in color, size and shape of my tinsel or wire ribs could change my catch rate on a dubbed nymph with the same body. That same lesson came with my first instruction in making dubbing and wet blending furs in a coffee can to achieve the color I wanted. This was followed up that summer by fishing those same flies with my tying mentor and learning about depth control and different retrieves.
Barry