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Thanks for the update, you’re podcasts are really appreciated.
The method you described for the CD’s is if they are converted to a wav format by the software, this will play on any type of CD player.
Allot of the newer car and home stereos are able to play mp3, if this is the case then one can burn a data CD and you’ll pretty much fit about 15 episodes onto a CD, much more than you’re passangers would be willing to allow you to enjoy
Here is a like to a South African based guiding company that specialises in Seychelles, take a look at their gallary
http://www.flycastaway.comThey’ve also started fishing for Tarpon in Angola, saw a photo the other day of a massive tarpon they landed, 212lb!
This one drives me nuts, the homepage starts so well, but try clicking on the products tabs, welcome to the worst flyfishing website to navigate.
This used to be a quit normal good functioning website. Till i guess a few days ago when they came up with this. It takes much to long for the pages to load even with my 10MBit connection.
When you got it in front of you you have to zoom in to see some detail on picss/images that aren’t that sharp.
I know the old Scierra website and it was a decent, functional website, I hate what they’ve done to it.
This one drives me nuts, the homepage starts so well, but try clicking on the products tabs, welcome to the worst flyfishing website to navigate.
On a similar subject, I thought I would share the braided connection that I use on my saltwater lines, it was shown to be by good friend who guides up in the Seychelles and has found it to work extremely well, even when using 100lb level leaders to land the fish as quickly as possible.
To make the loop, one has to use braid from a spool, premanufactured loops won’t work. I usually use 30lb braid for my 7 and 8 weights and 50lb for heavier rigs for abrasion resistance to rocks and coral. As you can see from the sketch, the line is threaded up the core of both ends of the loop, what’s also nice about this is that there isn’t a section of braid that is only single which could form a hinging point during casting. I wouldn’t suggest placing a nail knot at the end of the fly line as this would prevent the “Chinese finger cuff” action that the braid exerts on the fly line
You’ll probably find that sticking to a needle knot will work best for you. Over the last couple of years I’ve had to replace my floating lines and the new lines I had bought came with welded loops, take a read on Zach’s article Cooking up some lines if you’re thinking of cutting these off.
Before that, I also used a needle knot on all my freshwater lines and only braided loops on my clear intermediate lines and fast sinking lines (DI5 and DI7). Saltwater, my lines all have braided loops if they didn’t come with welded loops
Other than the reasons stated previously, I also found that they take a bit away from a nice delicate presentation as the land on the water on the light outfits.
Things here in the UK are pretty tight to, there has been mass retrenchements and unemployment is rising. Here is scotland alone there is apparetnly 10 500 businesses on ther verg of closing.
Guess I’ve going to have to cut back on the Orvis Mirage, the 19ft leaders that we use here start becoming expensive 😉
Zach, I really admire the way that you try and keep the thread on track, I’ve seen so many similar threads on other forums spiral out of control and revert to mud slinging.
To be honest, there are still allot of people out there who still use a nail or needle knot to knot the leader to the fly line.
The braided loops usually come with a sleeve to secure them, though personally I don’t like these very much as they tend to kink from being stored on the reel. The nail knot idea will work fine, it’s fairly similar to what I do myself on my medium weight rigs where I use 8lb tippet material and and a 10 turn nail knot on the open end (I use UV knot sense on my knot). For my 7/8wt or heavier, I attached the loop a little differently.
Would be interesting to hear what the others do.
If you’re looking for fly tying video’s, there is Fly Tying: The Anglers Art
Basically it is a TV serries that has been made available for free download though the KWSU television network.
You will need to install their OMN software to download the clips, it’s basically a P2P app for the KWSU TV network which provides only legal content (and the app only works on their downloadable content), there is hours of fly tying video’s available here, each episode is about 25 minutes long.
The link is http://kwsu.org/Offers/FlyTying.aspx
I’ve downloaded all the video’s in the past and past them on to budding fly tiers to help them along
Welcome Will, great to have you here
I haven’t formally introduced myself either to the forum, I joined the IA a few days back which I’ve found to be a great forum as mention by Will
I grew up in South Africa but I’m currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and I’ve been fly fishing for about 18 years now.
One possibility could be to use a shooting head system, I’m not sure if that would be suitable for the type of fishing you are trying to do.
I use the double (or triple sometimes) surgeon knot for tippet connections, and the non slip knot for my flies http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/nonslip.html which is supposed to be 100%. I have had no problems in the past with these knots.
I took a look at the link you provided and step 1 is incorrect, the tag is fed back through from the incorrect side (though it is shown correctly in step 2).
Thanks, yes I do a Flemish weave with the marabou seperated into three, basically it’s similar to how twine or rope is twisted together.
Thanks, yes I do a Flemish weave with the marabou seperated into three, basically it’s similar to how twine or rope is twisted together.
