brian aherne
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<cite> @ZachMatthews said:</cite>
I’m not sure if carp change colors a little throughout the year or what–I’ve never studied them that closely, but this guy resembled a golden dorado.Zach
I have noticed the carp here are much darker early in the season. Some of them have an almost black edge to their scales when they first get moving once the water warms up. After a few weeks spending time in the shallows they lighten up in colour.
It is probably very similar to your smallmouth/largemouth bass in a lot of ways Colin. These beasts can grow to over 100 pounds though. I look forward to a fish even a quarter of that weight eating a fly 😮
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Peter, I do a lot of sight fishing to carp in the shallow arms of lakes. The fish are often in a few inches of water. They are often swimming around with their backs out of the water.
My favourite fly is an unweighted super salt chenille woolly bugger. I would use black 90% of the time. The rest of the time i would change between various colours. Usually brown, olive, pink or orange.
Other patterns that i have been successful with are woolly worms, various buzzer patterns, zonkers and some other australian patterns like the USD Merri Minnow and the Fur Fly.. Most flies have either rabbit fur or marabou in them so they move even when i am not moving the fly. I have recently been playing around with a woolly bugger that has a foam post tied on so it acts like an emerger. Quite often the tadpoles hang from the surface like that and the carp seem to like it a bit 😉
In rivers i use a lot of patterns that have more weight but most of them are US patterns like egan’s headstand, carp crack, Clouser swimming nymphs.
Brian.
It usually takes 21-28 days for stuff to arrive from the US. Â I’ll not start panicking until my next trip up the coast to Exmouth late September.
Adam
That’s quicker than a delivery from Melbourne to Perth ;D
It depends on the timing of the order. I have had some things take 3 weeks plus and others get here in under two. Talking from the US, not perth. ;D
Muddler Variant. Tied with a palmered body hackle. Not sure if it has a name. It can be fished dry or stripped behind a sinking line to imitate baitfish or other critters depending on the size it is tied. Â
Zach, if you have a look around many nationalities seem to hang meat, fish or poultry of some sort either to preserve it or as a step in whatever preservation process they use. It seems as though as long as there is not high moisture/humidity in the air most meats can be hung successfully without spoiling.
I would be really, really careful about doing this with poultry but it seems to be common with fish and other meats.
When i was fishing Tasmania a few years ago an old bloke showed me a few trout he had hanging. He had gutted, gilled and removed the head of the fish then hung them by the tail inside a mesh meat locker/airer/dryer(looked like a bird cage with insect proof mesh) or whatever it was called. He left them for 3-4 days depending on the weather(pretty cool up in the tassie central highlands). According to him letting the liquids drain from the flesh lets it firm up and also helps to prevent freezer burn. The fish holds together much better when defrosted from what he was saying. I think he might have also smoked quite a few of these fish as well.
Easy button = use the guides flies or buy a few.
If you start practicing now you might have one or two good ones by next week :D. Otherwise the stacked wool would be pretty good.
I would send you a half dozen but they aint going to make it in time from Australia.
Griffin have a Jumbo Hair Stacker that might be worth looking for. It is one of the largest diameter hair stackers i could find when i was looking for one. Be careful when buying them online as a lot of other brands stackers change in length as the sizes get larger but the inside diameter does not vary by a large amount.
Its also a good excuse for an IA get-together ;D
;D Hmm, maybe a salmon trip 😉
I’m up for that! Great idea.
Me too ;D
Happy for the caps to be sent to one destination along with the others for Boydo,Wet and Beechy.
My local flyshop recently got an order for nearly $2000 worth of saddles. It was all sold in one order to a hairdresser.
I was reading the replies on the first link to Peta. Are those people really that stupid? Amazing. Half of them don’t know feathers come from animals and then there are the special ones like this……
I saw some girls wearing them and I thought, “Wow, those look cool!” But then I read this and I’m now thinking, “Shun the rooster killers!!! Shun them!”
Simms breathable waders- Much more comfortable than neo’s or rubber waders. Zipper in the G4’s make things so much easier 🙂
In Australia there are a couple of illnesses that can be contracted in humans through contact with our native parrots(collecting feathers). The diseases cause lung problems from memory.
I also remember something about inhalation of very fine fur when working with materials like rabbit fur.
Not sure if there are any similar dangers with other animals but it might be something to look into. Especially when people are picking up their own materials by hunting, collecting and road kill animals.
