brian aherne
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I just recieved a Camera Armor Seattle Solo dry bag for christmas so i will let you know how it goes. It will only hold an SLR with a Lens attached and not much more. It has one of the red roll top dry bags fitted inside what looks like a regular single SLR bag.
It is something else to look at if you want a reasonably small bag just for the camera.
I have A Sigma 150-500 F5-6.3 OS and i have been very happy with it. Fairly cheap lens which is the reason i bought it. I have still been happy with the pics i am getting from it. These pics were all taken hand held.
This is a nymph designed by a guide in Tasmania named Ken Orr. I have been using it a lot the last last few years with great results. As a general purpose nymph it is dynamite. I tie it from a #10 down to a #20
007 Nymph
Tail- Red wool or hot orange glo-bug yarn
Body- Black seals fur or sub
Rib- Blue wire
Thorax- Black seal or sub
Wing case- Black crowThere is a fly over hear in Aus called a DK Dancer. I dont know who came up with the idea first but they look like very much the same idea. The advantage of the DK Dancer is that you can tie them up yourself.
http://www.frasercoastsportfishing.com/artman/uploads/dancersteps.pdf
Hi all. First post here. I am a carp flyfishing junkie and thought i might be able to give you a few new ideas to try without resorting to bait fishing 😛
I have noticed that a lot of the flies that are used on carp in the US seem to be weighted with lots of lead or dumbells. I very rarely use flies that are weighted in any way, especially when fishing water that is only a foot or two deep.
The same as a lot of you guys i wont bother fishing to carp that are actively spawing and splashing in the shallows but there always seems to be quite a few fish hanging around the edges that will eat.
The fly i use most is a small black crystal/ice chenille woolly bugger. Soak the flies body in the water before casting and leave the tail dry. Most times the fly will hang in the surface until you give it a strip. Great for slow cruising fish.
I want the fly to almost hover at the depth the carp are swimming and most often it is very shallow. When i cast to sighted fish i try and put the fly a couple of feet in front and past the direction the carp is travelling. A long slow strip as the fish nears the fly to pull it right across the carps face will normally get them to eat. They will just open their mouths as they swim along and hoover the fly in. This works very well when you get a conga line of males following the lady carp about to drop her bundle. Sometimes a couple of fish will pass the fly but there is always one that cant help himself when he see’s the woolly bugger slowly sinking. If they dont eat straight away a slow figure 8 retrieve or sometimes a little twitching retrieve will change their minds.
Some Aussie Carp
This hook was straight before the fish above got hold of it.
