mike ormsby
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Zach,
Not sure if this helps but David Ondaatje is nephew of Michael Ondaatje, author, screenwriter of The English Patient. He was born in Montreal
MikeCabin Fever-I hear ya! I am not hampered by fishing seasons, and I truly feel for those of you whom are. Texas is certainly not known for its trout, and if I want to chase them it is at least a three-hour drive, regardless of where I go. So now, I am just waiting for the water temp to get to that magical number for the LMB and the carp to start foraging the shores. Until then, I’ll be at my vise.
Good luck with the recovery, Mike, and the CCI as well!
D.
Just over 2 months to the opening of trout season here in Ontario. Actually make that slightly more than 8 weeks. No make that 56 days and 11 hours and 47 minutes (and 37 seconds) to go (well at least at the time of this post). But who’s counting…..
Kat
Sounds like it would be a great opportunity for anybody (especially an aspiring fly fishing writer)!!!! Wish we had available a little closer to home, up here in the Great White North.From Zach:”My main point was, “if” there were more fish again, the need for those restrictions would be lessened or ended.
Like I’ve already said quite impressive podcast with April. But something that I found out from listening to that podcast was about April’s fundraiser on Facebook called Flies For Fins and that is the main point of this post. It’s best to describe it in April’s own words from the Flies For Fins site:
Listen up!!! This message is for you whether you live in Norway, Oregon or British Columbia….Our steelhead are suffering and need your help!
I have started a fundraiser called Flies For Fins. I don’t want your money, but I do need some of your time and tying materials.
I am working with Reaction Fly and Tackle, Pacific Angler, Michael and Young Fly Shop, Sea-Run Fly and Tackle and Whistler FlyFishing to raise money for the Steelhead Society (steelheadsociety.org).
Each location will carry a cork board that is full of steelhead flies MADE BY YOU. These flies will be sold at the shops, where proceeds will be donated to the Steelhead Society. This money will be put towards habitat restoration and several other similar projects, which ultimately will help to save all anadromous species.
In the middle of each cork board will be a graph that is updated weekly to show how much money has been raised.
Mailing flies only takes a couple stamps (just make sure that they can be flattened in an envelope.)
This is for a great cause, please choose to take some of your time and flies out of your box for it.
We need flies RIGHT NOW, so let’s pull togther and get on it!!
Flies can be shipped to:8505 Norman Cres.
Chilliwack, B.C.
Canada
V2P 5C6Feel free to send one fly, or ten! Make them as fancy or as plain as you would like. Please include your name.
Envelope, stamp, fly. It’s that simple.
Please do your part and help us make a difference!Thank you so much,
April.Check out the Flies For Fins on Facebook — great concept — people tie and donate flies — these are sold in local fly shops — funds used to help preserve BC STeelhead stocks — and educate people too — and it is Flies For Fins — those could be any type of “Fin” (or fish) in any part of the country (or even the world) — this is what April had in mind when she started this up — so maybe this is something we could do through local fly shops to raise funds to protect local “Fins” — my hat’s off to April for this great idea — definitely check out Flies For Fins and join up
Personally, I think this is a great way to raise funds. It doesn’t take much more than tying a steelhead pattern, popping it in an envelope, slapping a stamp on it and sending it off to Flies For Fins. Or to buy the flies tied by others who have donated to this worthy cause. I hope you check it out.
Tight Lines,
Mike
Will
Definitely great looking flies — all photos were good — personally have to agree with Dave that ones on white seemed to give better definition to fly — in hand with what Zach was saying about out of focus on first shot posted — you know what your fly is about but your audience might not — that’s why I would think more the detail/definition the better — just my $0.02 worth
Also like the quest for your “hand held nightimeWhat a variation on your One Fly idea??? You have teams of two — one ties the first fly that is used for the first part of the tournament by other team member. Time limits can be included, but being generous you have a three hour maximum — using that one fly tied by Partner A that is fished on whatever given water by angler Partner B — Partner A has time limit to tie fly of say 15 minutes including selecting hook, materials etc. After fishing is done by Partner B then that person has equal amount of time to select and tie a different pattern which Partner A then fishes for whatever maximum time limit is. Twist could be that first fly is dry and second is nymph.
I like bluegrass, newgrass or any grass. Can’t forget the Dead. Gotta to add other CCR to CCR already mentioned — Creedance Clearwater
WFN uses a lot of Canadian productions — and I should have added Fly Max to my previous list — great show — Nick P. and everybody did a super job.
It would have to be my grandfather — he was the one who first taught me how to fish (using an old baitcast setup) and also the first to show me how to to fly fish — I watched him catch pretty fish I found out were called “trout” using fur and feathers on hooks — trout weren’t all he “hooked” using a fly rod — so was an eight year old boy
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I met Nick from Canadian Fly Fisher Mag and he swears by those patterns. Havent tried one yet but plan to.quote]
Those Swimtrue flies do apparently work — musky maniac friend of mine swears by them (as I mentioned in earlier post) — Nick P. from The Canadian Fly Fisher should definitely know too — Nick loves going after all sorts of warm water species besides just muskie — amazing gar fly fisherNice flies by the way Tim
Maybe I should consider giving up steelhead fishing and take up chasing those muskies on a fly LOL LOL — if you can get it there’s an interesting article on muskie fishing in S. Ontario in the 2009 Outdoor Canada fishing annual — article is called “fish of a Thousand Casts”
I would agree with “The New Fly Fisher” as a very good informative show. I’d add “Sport Fishing On The Fly”, “What A Catch”, “Outdoors with Shelley and Courtney”, “Sportfishing BC”, and “Fishing Alberta” also to the list. The last four have a strong fly fishing component and all of these shows are produced here in Canada (sorry for shameless patriotic plug LOL LOL).
Just wanted to say this is an incredible thread — especially for those of us wannabe or rookie photographers of flies/fly tying/fly patterns — thanks to Neal — and also to Mark for the link to podcast
Tight Lines,
Mike
P.S. I second Neal’s post about Martin Joergensen’s quote, “trust me, fly anglers are just as crazy as photographers”
— that would explain why I’m so interested in learning more about photographing fliesLee
Those musky flies (with the heads) are Swimtrue musky flies, http://swimtrue.com/e-commerce-solutions-catalog1.html. A buddy of mine who fly fishes for musky (even went to Wisconsin from Ontario to do so) swears by them — gave me link to this site (I’d asked him for his input when I saw the original post by Dave Z for anybodywho knew or could share musky fly patterns — my buddy is not a member of this forum so I posted info he provided — he originally just sent photos of the Swimtrue flies) — according to their site: “That’s why my Swimtrue Musky Flies come equipped with a large rattle encased between 3D eyes. The lip on this fly moves the head from side to side, the speed of which depends on the rate at which you strip the line. Now add a large 12″ body that suspends in the water at rest, all adding up to a muskie meal.”
Hope that answers your question.
