Carter Simcoe

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  • in reply to: Cobia trip off Louisiana. Help! #27390

    I always hear people swearing by chartreuse but I’ve never done it on the fly.

    in reply to: Swimming Sideways #56163

    too much material will probablly do it quicker than anything.

    in reply to: Swimming Sideways #56160

    yeah there’s definitely a balance you’ve got to find, it varies material to material and and hook to hook though.  Make a prototype, fill up your bathtub and pull it around in there by hand (on some really light tippet) before making more.

    Only other thing I can really say on the matter is to tie relatively sparse.  Even if you’re trying to make a large profile fly, you’ll be better off with many sparse layers than just a couple of thick ones.  

    in reply to: Swimming Sideways #56158

    That is also a very good suggestion.

    in reply to: Swimming Sideways #56156

    usually means you’ve got too much stuff tied in on the sides.

    in reply to: Fly Fishing Texas #27469

    Puppy drum is slang for juvenile redfish.  

    in reply to: Worst fishing day ever #27440

    in reply to: Hard Headed Poppers #56306

    for topwater?

    in reply to: Hard Headed Poppers #56304

    Mark, some guys use a dremel tool to make a lathe and carve them out of chunks of foam which are often salvaged from crappy chinese kids toys and flip flops at wal*fart.

    I don’t use many, mostly just pencil poppers when I do, so I just by the pre formed ones supplied by Wapsi, they’re made of a very hard styrafoam type material.

    in reply to: Worst fishing day ever #27435

    NO way did Zach catch a 28″ fish.  I’ve seen his measuring estimation skills and they are off by about 8″.

    nice.

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27319

    free market capitalism rules all.

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27316

    This board has more than its fair share of pro traffic if my server logs (and emails) are anything to go by.  

    Has Lefty figured out how to log on with his Smith Corona yet?

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27313

    Welcome to the machine.

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27307

    Then I fail to see your point.

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27304

    Umm, no.

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27302

    You see my point.

    Honestly I really don’t.  I go fishing in part to get away from all that crap, so drive by me in a floating billboard and you’ve just taken my day down a notch.  I’m of the opinion that if waders with zippers and built in chest packs can’t sell themselves through word of mouth and good reputation then they probablly aren’t neccessary.  

    Don’t get me wrong, I like Simms, It’s a great product and if they want to take out ads in Field and Stream or whatever then I say have at it.  I really don’t care one way or the other about product advertisement

    in reply to: Simms not just for fly fisherman #27296

    Don’t you think it’s kind of a half-assed attempt though?

    in reply to: Stopping down w/ polarizing filter. #63992

    f/22
    one for 1/4 sec. w/o pol. filter
    other for 1 sec. w/ pol filter.

    1 second is what his meter started reading as a correct exposure after he put the filter on.

    in reply to: Stopping down w/ polarizing filter. #63988

    I don’t know if he’s using a hand-held meter there or something but while a polarizer will eat up around two stops of light your camera will be metering the light after it’s passed through the filter so you don’t really need to think about it like that.

    Sometimes a little compensation is desired because images can look dark when the effect is at it’s strongest but it’s not going to be on the level of two stops.

    in reply to: D700 – $3000 #63921

    Define “you.”

    Zach and Lauren Matthews Photography

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