lamiglas n wild tarpon in the morning

feeds@kickapps.com (Brawn Tailor) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:49:17 PST

the 1st tarpon caught on my custom lamiglas 3# 7f on history place in malacca

A little tilapia.......... hook up damsel

big mouth tarpon

First Fish on my tadpole rod

feeds@kickapps.com (wekiva) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:34:45 PST

I caught 9 blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) today on my tadpole rod that I built from a Batson e-glass UL spinning blank.

I'm dying...

feeds@kickapps.com (kayak rick) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:47:55 PST

I have two new glass rods to fish. I finally get a window with no work and it's gonna rain. I'm not talking "put a Gore-tex jacket on and go fish" rain, but torrential, stream flooding rain. I just wanna try my new toys!

Fenwick FL7

feeds@kickapps.com (jeva) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:36 PST

I just scored a fenwick FL7 at the local TU cabin fever show. Lawn casted today with both dt7 and wf8 rod seemed to like both. seems like a great rod for both large and small mouth and carp. Any one have experience with this rod?

Reel Questions

feeds@kickapps.com (bigfin56) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:04:35 PST

Hello all, I'm brand new as registered to the forum and am trying to learn all I can. I have visited, read posts, and drooled over pictures consistently for about a year now. I've been trying to learn and have had nothing to contribute so this is my first post.

I've become enamored of older spring and pawl reels the last few years. I've changed back to clickers for many of my graphite rods and have been looking for the right reels for 3 older rods (1 glass and 2 cane) I have. I know many of you read and post on the Classic Cane forum also. I'm wondering if I should post my questions there as well. I'm hoping your collective wisdom can help. Here are the rods and questions.

Bamboo 7'6" 5 wt. My father built it and said it's best with a 5 line. I agree, a 4 felt too light. I used an Orvis CFO III on it but I think it's too small for a 5 wt. line and way too light for this rod....

Largest glass rod I fish ... being fished

feeds@kickapps.com (taniwha2) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:37:58 PST

It has been a cold (for UK) and wet winter this year, and end-of-season pre-spawn piking is running late. So when a dry week ends sunny, its time to embrace la madrugada and hit the road to blow out the cabin fever

Best piking is dawn and dusk, but today on the River Stour (Dorset) it was a bit too cold early on

Heading out tommorow

feeds@kickapps.com (featherlite) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:45:16 PST

Close to 4 feet of snow here in the blue ridge mountains of Virginia has put a hurting on my fishing this winter. I am heading out early tommorow morning for a weeks straight fishing for brook trout in Shenandoah National Park. The snow is disspearing fast, and temperatures will hit the 60's in the daytime this week! Should be ideal! I have caught some wild rainbows on the little south fork 2 weight pearow built me up. Now it's time for the real show, and get some brookies on this nice little glass rod!

I will take lots of pictures, please stay tuned to the blog for updates when I get back. No more cabin fever!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://snpfiberglassflyfishing.blogspot.com/

H&H Hi-Float vs. Cortland Sylk

feeds@kickapps.com (BlueDunn) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:54:37 PST

Hi-

I'm trying to narrow my line choice down and have noticed that both of these lines seem to be fairly popular. I'll be fishing a Steffen 5 weight and a 3 weight but am not sure which of these two lines may work better with those rods. What has your experience been with these 2 lines? Seems like the H&H have a good following (and a good price), but so do the Cortland lines.

Thanks,
S

If I Coud Have A Trout In Malaysia

feeds@kickapps.com (tengas) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:34:10 PST

Me, Al and others Amir and Radzi having a dry fly fishing today...
Thank you guys and i really having fun today....

So Me, Al and Amir start to cast a variant of dry fly....after a couple of hours, i decide to do some nymphing while Radzi is already far away from us...

while...

Comments on certain lines?

feeds@kickapps.com (Upstreeam) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:34:22 PST

I notice that many here are attentive to nuances in lines, more than I am. Winter fundraisers usually produce a bunch of flies for me, but this year I've ended up with the following lines. One or two may get passed on for other fundraisers or something (it seems sometimes that without "re-gifting," the bucket raffles would be cut in half), but a couple are interesting. So if anyone has an experience to share, any and all comments are welcome.

1) Cortland 555 "Convertible Dyna Tip" DT4F
2) Orvis Silver Label Hy-Flote WF4F
3) AirFlo Ridgeline Tactical Trout Power Core WF4F
4) Triangle Taper TT 3I

Clearly, I shouldn't have to buy a 4 wt. line for a bit. The TT is the one that is the oddest to me. I guess I need to find a farm pond for that?

Bob

Madi-Sue goes fishing

feeds@kickapps.com (majicwrench) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:55:46 PST

Way too nice today to do anything but go fishing. We got a bunch of whitefish, rod is a 8.5ft Jet 7wt, reel is a China MG72

This pic is from a few weeks ago, I took a nap under a tree and, as she always does, Madi-Sue joined me. Life is good.

weighted vs unweighted flies

feeds@kickapps.com (frogmorton) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:40:01 PST

I watched a Kelly Galloup DVD on streamer fishing last fall. He advocates the "jerk and strip" method where the fly moves through the water by a series of rod tip jerks and the slack is stripped with the off hand. He also strongly endores unweighted streamers fished with a sinking line. Galloup says that unweighted flies move more naturally through the water because weighted flies sink in between strips or jerks. I tried the jerk and strip but couldn't ever get comfortable with it. However, switching to unweighted flies and sinking lines did pay off, I caught more and larger fish this winter than ever before. Does using unweighted flies make a difference?

Fishing Shirt

feeds@kickapps.com (BlueDunn) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:34:51 PST

Hi-

I've been searching for the "perfect" fishing shirt as I don't like to wear vests, chest packs, sling packs, etc. I am however very fond of my lanyard but need a few extra pockets to stow some extra gear. I recall Orvis put out a fishing shirt with 4-pockets a year ago but I think they've discontinued it. At any rate, I'd be interested to know what some of you guys use.

Thanks,
S

Tropical Glass out of focus pictures

feeds@kickapps.com (ratfacedmcdougal) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:40:42 PST

Just returned from Punta Allen Mexico. Fantastic fishing terrible pictures and I'm very sorry about that. Punta Allen is 90 miles south of Cancun. At the end of a very bad road and I mean bad. A town of less than 500 souls and many visiting fishermen. One of the best kept secrets for flats fishing and I'd like you guys to keep it under your hats. There is no boutiques for the ladies and where we stayed it was just on step above camping. That's the way we like it.

This was my first bone of the trip and broke the ice very nicely

Francisco Caamal, my guide with the second of only three for the day. We were on tailing bones all morning and I should have hooked up with many more. Casting error is to blame and not the guides. I fished with two guides, Tony poling and Fransico on the platform with me pointing the...

Largest rod you fish

feeds@kickapps.com (fingernail) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:55:07 PST

There is a lot of talk on smaller glass, whats the largest you fish, I normally fish smaller rods but for some reason I picked up a 9ft 4pc I'm thinking 7/8 but maybe larger. Not sure what I'll use it for. Lets see what you fish!!

Wisconsin pond

feeds@kickapps.com (blackargus) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:58:59 PST

Hey folks, I thought I'd try to get out and take advantage of the good weather and the fact I'm not working at the moment, and the fact our baby boy is getting out of the hospital tonight, finally after a month he's coming home!!!! Went up to Wisco for some trout in the pond I go to, I brought two rods with, my Kettle creek 7ft 4wt and a Fenwick 4 pc I bought at a shop going under a few years back.
Istarted out fishing with leech patterns as I always do, I think most folks fishing this place stick with midge patterns, I go under for 'em. Had some sucsess with the leeches, the fish got a bit more active, kept on with the leech.I posted some flies here last week I wanted to try for the bigger fish in the pond, I tired those with no luck than I tied on a good size Sculpin pattern, dredged that around with the Fenwick 7 1/2 6 wt. Turns out that the rod is pretty good at handling this type of fishing.There was a good size brown skulking around the bottom, cast to heim a few times...

The Guadalupe at 800+ CFS

feeds@kickapps.com (swalker9513) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:42:22 PST

My annual trip to the Guadalupe river in the Texas Hill Country finally arrived. We were quite excited about the prospects this year. Last year, the river was flowing around 25 cfs, and I knew with the recent snows/rains that the river would have water. Wow, it had water. Not being a TU member, there is limited opportunities for river access. And with the water at dangerous levels, wading was not an option. So, unfortunately, flyfishing was quite limited for me. I did give a shot, but it was unproductive. We did catch some giant trout on spinning tackle. All in all, a good weekend was had by all. Camping, fishing, friends and enough cigars to kill a lab rat makes for a good time.

And for those watching another thread about nymph fishing and strike indicators...every raft that floated by had every rod rigged with a thingabobber. And a large fish was landed that regurgitated her daily diet. I wish my bug IDing skills were better, but she tossed up a handful of larvae of some...

Sceptres and Smallies

feeds@kickapps.com (BH Spey) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:59:27 PST

The Smallmouth season came to a close here in Minnesota yesterday and as it had warmed up to a BALMY 33F I thought it was only fitting to take the newly rebuilt Sceptre 7' 4-5 wt out for a test drive. This is a rod I had converted to a 4-piece model and then through a comedy of errors ( http://fiberglassflyrodders.yuku.com/topic/9352 ) broke on my first outing with it. I stopped in a Angler's Mail in Cleveland while on a business trip and was able to obtain a spare tip section for the rod and rebuilt it in early February. At the same time I replaced the reel seat from the original all cork to a Spalted Maple insert that I turned, along with NS cap and band hardware.

Anyway, fishing was a little slow but I did manage on pretty nice 18" that was an absolute blast on the Sceptre! Here are a few shots of the action (the fish fighting shots are from a 12"...

Late Feb report

feeds@kickapps.com (HouzeHead) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:27:50 PST

Figured I could share a report, I will warn there may have been some nymphing. I made it out for a few days of camping and fishing on a popular NC stream and a few smaller waters near by. Sat. started off chilly, in the mid 30's with some wind. I arrived early with a few rods rigged, my Steffen with a nymph rig consisting of Caddis larvae or hot bead fly and a chartreuse midge, the other, a lighter Lami 3wt with a small black stripped midge parachute. I fished a popular run leading into a large pool for a little while in the moring before the crowds moved in, and picked up a few nice fish.

Big eastern brown stone nymph

Small Caddis larvae- had good luck with these

Fishing County Kerry

feeds@kickapps.com (middlemac) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:01:49 PST

I fly to Ireland on Tuesday to meet my wife Anne and look forward to fishing Killarney Natl Park and day trips nearby.

The water is typically so much bigger than here in Western NC, but there are lots of streams and smaller lakes also...

I'm winging it as to gear, this is my current kit (with a few scribbles below).

The weather outlook is actually quite nice for the next week, but who knows... gear and technique suggestions appreciated...

Fenglass SF74-4 Garcia 301 and Young Trudex (wading the lakesides & rivers)

Wright McGill Granger 6580 Farlow Grenaby and Young pattern 3-1/2 x...

Fishing with Fiberglass Fly Rods