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Les, Hi,

best rod is 1 p rod! I also have 3zone 6 p but weight 4. i have it only for trips when i combine biz trips together with fishing. My friend got the same 3zone 4 weight but 3 p and it is compleatly different rod much , much better than mine 6 p.

I will come to you with some offers on private.

rgds

Rolandas

Submitted by Darryl Tucker on

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My experience as a class 1 guide, is the only fish that will come up for a fly that is hitched are the
earlier fish!. but then again these fish will also take dry fly's.If you want real success, in the earlier
fish, June, July& part of August, is to tie a buck bug of your choice,Carter Bug style, in a meduim
flow of current , holding the rod tip up a little so the fly is half submerged , & not riding up on the
surface .Thi makes a nice " Buldge " in the water.

Ripley is right.. Dont worry about having 100's of different flies to fish the coast. I use 3 patterns only. They are the simplist to tie and they catch fish. Ripley knows my rusty fly box so he can vouch that one. :)

Steve

Hey Rodney,

Some interesting points you mentioned on "netting" in your part of the world. Yes awareness needs to be adressed.

If your in Jutland in December feel free to contact me, maybe we could meet up for a bit of fishing and a chat. December is a very busy month for me at work but maybe we could work something out.

Keep in touch!
Steve

James,
You can find parachute cord in any Army surplus shop, either through the internet, or the one nearest you.

The website Steve provided is needed in my opinion. It is better to bring public awareness on a serious problem than hide what maybe a nation's disgrace. By getting more people aware of the issue, it brings solutions to the table. For a foreigner such as myself who fishes in Denmark several times per year, it's very informative and let us know what to do when illegal nets are encountered. Last summer while wading we came across one net completely submerged in the water. If I did not spot it before taking a few more steps, I would have tripped in the waist-deep water. At the time I wasn't sure if it was legal or not, but I'm pretty sure it is now after learning more about it.

What I find interesting is the fact that citizens can purchase licenses to net fish for personal usage (and sell?) in Denmark. In Canada, the fishery is divided into three sectors - Recreational, commercial and First Nations. Commercial fishing in Canada was heavy several decades ago but has dropped rapidly due to resource depletion. This is particularly apparently on the East Coast while the West Coast is beginning to experience the same trend and will continue if no actions are taken. The West Coast commercial fishery includes pacific salmon, halibut, groundfish (rockfish, lingcode) and sablefish (black cod). Illegal activities are not an issue in this fishery, but what is categorized legal by the government is not necessarily viewed as correct by the people. By-catch of vulnerable stocks, failure to meet spawner escapement are all part of the government's mismanagement.

Illegal fishing activities in this part of the world include poaching at night (white sturgeon), overfishing and illegal sale of salmon by First Nations, salmon poaching by recreational fishermen. We don't have small set gillnet problems by ordinary citizens, but we do have large drift nets that are used sometimes during closures by First Nations.

Anyway, that's just a brief summary. Illegal fishing happens throughout the world, it's definitely not bounded by nationality, culture, race.

[quote:873c96e4c3]PS. Great videos on the fishingwithrod site, is that Tryggevaelle river?? I fished there as a kid sometimes, dreaming about BC while working my cheap heawy Shakespeare glassfiber rod (but didn't catch any sea runs) .[/quote:873c96e4c3]

Yes, that is the Trygg. ;) I fish it pretty often whenever I am in Denmark since I mostly fish streams. There are three species that we usually target when fishing there - northern pike, perch and sea trout. We'll be back at it this December again, and mixing it up with some beach fishing too. ;)

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I wish that I had found this site yesterday or earlier: it would have saved a lot of time spent in evading giving written instructions to a friend! I have nontheless now forwarded him the instructions from these pages some 24 hours after my hand written attempt!

Excellent site, a happy find! Thank you!

Submitted by Peter M on

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I use 20lb titanium single strand for pik eleaders. It is almost impossible to kink, is black and non-shiny and I think a little lighter than steel. Otherwhise I make my leaders as above but sometimes bend a ubend in the leadeer and tie on with an albright knot. Incidentally you can use figure 8 knots with titanium they never slip

Hi Morten,

I'd love to be able to teach you to fly fish in saltwater but I'm not that good.
I've seen a little saltwater fly fishing on TV but I've not much experience. Most of the fish I catch are caught on luck - not skill.

Rip

Les,

I was joking. Do you think I'd part with the old faithful?! :D

:wink:

Rip

Czechoslovakia, it is long long time ago. Vanuz, Slovakia is probabbly less known, there is no slovak nymph but Czech nymph is well known in flyfishing world:-)))

Hi Martin,
glad to hear the podcast again, great stuff. I was interested in the fly that you showed, what is it called or if possible how do you tie it? Keep the excellent work up.
Nick

Guys,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my request for fly-rod info. - both in the forum and via email - that was very kind.

@Feridun - I think you made a good recomendation there, as did Jesper via email, but before I buy again I will have to try the rod, I was silly to think that a catalogue description would give me a proper idea of rod-action. Be warned, anyone else who thinks its o.k. to buy without a try! A copy-writer's "Med Fast" can feel like a sloppy overlined and incapable twig when you use it!! I'll let you know whether the dealer comes up trumps (I'll sing his praises if he does) or lets me down eventually.

Ripley, you are so kind, but I think you've had the best out of that rod, and you owe it to the dear old thing to keep it into its old age!!

Thanks everyone,
Les

Hmmm,,,not the best moment for a discussion, bad mood, just came back from a fishing trip, soaking weet catching nothing else than trees, weed and other annoying objects.

Just a pitty that measures like www.ulovlige.net is necessary, so don't get me wrong, just don't want to live in a country where people turn each other in, no matter if it is for downloading mp3's of whatever.

If The Danish authorithies can't handle some illegal fishing nets, maybe the Danish Sportfishing organisations should fire at them instead, just my personal opinion, but anyway,, I am not an expert on this matter.

Hi Ruza,
there is some hope. The pictures under this link
http://www.bfv1889ev.de/index.php?id=55
are from the Wupper (part of the Rhine system), a river I am fishing since 1979. There is clear improvement, the grayling is back since the mid 80s and will perhaps stay in spite of the cormorants.
The seatrout and salmon in the pictures are back since a couple of years and have by the nature of their journey escaped the threats on the way. These fish will be used for smolt production in the small hatchery our club operates. There are some obstacles preventing these fish to enter the part of the river I am allowed to fish. I have, if all goes well, perhaps another 35 years or so to fish and hope to catch these magnificent fish in "my" river.
TL
Florian

(Il)legal net fishing is a serious problem in The Netherlands. We used to have salmon and trout in our rivers a long time ago. Due to rising economy and the pollution that came along with it the salmon and seatrout became an endangered specie in a short period. Thanks to al the hard work on the environment and cleaning up industry the rivers are now clean, if not cleaner then when the trout and salmon were still swiming. The only 2 problems are hydroplants and net fishing. The goverment is rapidly building fishing traps around the plants only sea run fish haven't got any change to reach the sea due to all the nets! It's a shame to see that the Germans, Swiss, France and Belgium poeple are putting much money and effort into reintroducing salmonides into the waters wich have clearly no effect due to al the nets in the esturia of the Netherlands, legal and illegal! I hope this will change in the near futue but to be honest, i doubt it :cry:

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