If you could only fish

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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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Here are my six. For still waters of course. Let's see how others compare.

1: SA Damsel. A simple damsel nymph imitation that has caught me thousands of fish in several countries. I would also need a few with a gold head.

2: Black epoxy buzzer. There are many colour variations of this but black is the most common.

3: Daiwl Bach - Welsh for little devil. The supreme all round nymph pattern and so easy to tie.

4: Hawthorn Fly. If you haven't got a few of these and the fish are on them you can often blank.

5: Wooly Vugger - a black Woolly Bugger with a fluorescent green Viva style butt. The perfect pulling fly.

6: Invicta: The best of all the traditionals.

It's a very short list of course and it excludes many dry patterns. But the whole idea of the list is about catching fish if you only had 6 patterns.

Let's have yours.
 
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jason fisher

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1) black buzzer

2) red buzzer (bloodworm immitation)

3) daddy longlegs

4) hawthorn

5) your sa damsel because i hate to admit it but it works

6) cats whisker.
 
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Shrek

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1. Diawl Bach
2. Green Damsel
3. Black Buzzer
4. Gold Head GRHE
5. Montana
6. PTN
 
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Big Swordsy :O)

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Triple red maggot

Dendrobeana tail

Lob worm head

small minnow

mepps spinner

Rapala contdown in holographic pattern



:O)
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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I say, have that man thrown off the water what!!

We do not allow poaching in the Game Fishing section!!

Beastly coarse angler!

:eek:{
 
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blakestones buzzer [orange cheeks]

epoxy buzzer[black,yellow cheeks]

p.t.n.[flash back]

g.r.h.e.

bibio[tied on gold hook]

nomad[fritz green and black]
 
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john conway

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March Brown
Hares Ear
Snipe & Purple
Snipe & Orange
Greenwells Glory
Black Pennel
Don't do the still water ponds Ron to me that's like bashing the carp puddles<g>
 
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I am interested in the so called: "Blakestones Buzzer."

I have been tying a pattern almost the same as this for over 30 years. I use floss or ordinary silk for the body, peacock herl for the thorax, white fluorescent tying silk, silver wire or stripped white cock hackle stalk for the rib and a couple of strips of orange feather fibre for the cheeks.

Sometimes I put the breathers in, sometimes I don't.

It's a great fly when the trout are taking midge pupa just under the surface,

The epoxy buzzers are best for fishing deeper.

By the way, why do we call them "buzzers" and not chronomid or midge pupa which is what they are?

I have often put my ear to these things and never heard them buzz once.
 
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Damsel
Black buzzer variants
Diawl Bach
Cat's Whisker
Lily the Pink
Black Hopper

Not necessarily in that order.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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Come on people lets have more of your selections.

After a few more posts you will see what I am getting at.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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Don't you like the big reservoirs John?

I don't mind the smaller waters as long as they have quality fish.

And I think these days a lot of small trout fishery owners are starting to see the light. Dumping a load of tailess rubbish into any old pool is not on.
 
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And by the way if you get the chance, read my friend Peter Cockwill's comments in the latest Trout Fisherman.

They are spot on.

Not only that, he is holding a superb example of what a decent fish farm can produce.
 
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Big Swordsy :O)

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Seriously

Montanna
Hawthorn fly
Pellet fly
Daddy long legs
Pheasant tail nymph
Wooly bugger/baby doll and the likes

With a bare 14 and 1/2pt maggots held in reserve to avoid the blank
 
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john conway

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Ron, my Prince Albert ticket gives me enough access to some good northern mountain streams and rivers for ?85 per year. How much would a day ticket cost plus boat on a big res?
Our lass is thinking we should move further north before I retire i.e North East Lakes or Tebay area, so you never know Ron I may have to wet a line in the wild lakes of the Lake District? BTW did you know there?s only one lake in the Lake District?
 
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Paul Canning's "Dot midge"
John Dean's rabbit-fur-tailed buzzer, black.
Goldhead bloodworm
Polecat
But I only used to fly-fish early in the season. The first is a stunning little fly, and the only one I've any faith in as an early-season dropper.
If I had a chance to fish once the sedges were well under way:
Wickhams Fancy
Invicta

And if I had to make the selection last all year, I'd lose the Wickhams and have:
Daddy-long-legs.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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A day ticket on Rutland costs ?17.00 for 8 fish. A boat costs ?24.00

That's ?29.00 each if you share a boat.

If you get your 8 fish you can flog them for about ?40.00 or maybe a bit less.

I have known many who actually make a profit by fly fishing on the big ressies. I used to sell trout from Draycote for a few years to a couple of pubs in the Leamington Area.
 
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Top 2 Drys-
Daddy Long-legs
Hawthorne Fly
Top2 Nymphs-
Gold Ribbed Hares Ear
Alder Larvae
Top 2 Lures,
Cats Whisker
Hedge Pig(carsington special)

Bill you forgot your Cadburys Parrot fly mate, lol
 
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forgot about that Cat, what a mess that fly was! bloody effective though!!lol
dont even know if i could remember how i tied it mate.
 
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