The Sunray Shadow is a fantastic fly when fished on a floating line riffle hitched or made with a hole in the side to make it skate across the surface! The salmon of the Northern rivers of the Russian Kola Peninsula love it! that way.Very visual takes.Fish it with a downstream mend to speed it up as well.
Ray,
The image of me kayaking was shot with a Nikon F5 using slide film.
Martin
It's a great pic, but I would crop off the bottom, trying to maintain the thirds rule...
Very nice fly and I believe it will work too. Very interesting the hackling style!
Hi
South Africa is a safe country. There are areas that are more risky, like certain areas in some of the big cities, but the outdoor no problems. Fantastic scenaries, beautiful fishing, friendly people. There are a couple of articles and pictures in the Gallery on GFF about South Africa. Read them and you will book your plane ticket
Hi. I tried to reach Essabo on his site but the email was unabled to be delivered.His diaries are the best on pike fishing to be found any where. Can he be reached by email??
Photos do not do Chris's work justice, in real life they are alive and stunningly beautiful !
Wow, didn't know South Africa is so beautiful!
Is it safe (sorry for asking but that's what I just keep asking myself) in SA to be in the outdoors?
I never heard about "wet flies" before, I just played with google ;), but wow! good photos about beautiful flies... I really enjoyed watching these artistic beauties. grats & thanks!
Martin, we fished the Tønjum beat of Laerdal last summer and Mark Brooks (Ray Brooks son) showed us around and advised us about which flies to use and how to fish them. Needless to say Mark more or less only fishes the Sunray but slightly different to his fathers original (published?) pattern namely blue/black and not white/black. Also the Sunray's he uses on Laerdal are enormous - at a guess I would say 20-25cm long!! Mark ties them on plastic tubes and fishes them on a sink-tip line. Last season he took one 17.4Kg salmon in Tønjum and a monster of 19Kg higher up on the last day of the season - both on a ....
... blue Sunray.
Stuart
Super flies! I live in a resort in Florida where the streets are named for trout & salmon flies. iI would like to find someone who would tye SIX of the patterns for me. CATSKILL,GRAY HACKLE, NIGHT OWL, PARSON TOM, PINK LADY, WOODRUFF.
I need a dozen of each to maKe a frame to give as gifts, If you know of someone please advise. THANKS BOB
Jack,
The fact box in the beginning of the article refers you to Tiemco's web site, and from there you will have to find a dealer or distributor in your country. We have no intentions of providing sources for every product we mention in every country we have an audience in. That would surely keep us busy! You will notice that we try to provide a source or a way to find a source for every single product we mention.
Tiemco is an International brand name and available in most larger tackle shops, so ask for this wing burner at your local flyshop, and I'm sure they can get it for you.
Martin
Again another tool but no discussion of where to purchase if one wanted it. My biggest issue with almost every story I've read over 60 years of tying is that the author fails to source for his audience.
John,
Check out the chapter "On you own" in this article. It tries to cover your options when moving around along the beaches without a guide.
Martin
My wife and I are visitng Belize in November for 3 weeks. She likes to fish but NOT from boats - only the shore!! is this possible on an 'ad hoc' basis along the coastline of Belize even is not staying in the area.?
Thanks for your help.
John Cartwright (UK)
The Cracker fly is one that I grew up fishing in the Withlacoochee River and the Florida Gulf Coast in the Tampa Bay area. It is a very good Redfish fly that many of the old guys wading the bay would use when I was a child. I was somewhat offended that the term Cracker was represented as describing the poor whites of Florida. My family has lived in Florida for many generations. Crackers were so named because they were cattle men who cracked their whips as they drove cattle. Tom Williams, Lolamy Fly & Tackle Co.
Hi, Dada,
last year I was in Hurgada for 7 days rest. Hoever I took my flyrod and had couple of nice hours in early morning. trust me i dont know all names of fishes I got there but it was plenty. Most often i got garfish hooked. I fished from the cost on a shalow waters near resort.
rgds
Roolis
The Fly on bottles makes a cracking wallpaper.Many thanks.
Yes some great information and in good English. I stay in Denmark every year for six months arriving at the beginning of May. For the other 6 months I live in New Zealand where there are no Garfish except tiny cousins called PIPER, but plenty of other exciting species to catch. We net these. What I am interested in other ways of catching Garfish. For instance do they take the "Softbait" optiions like "Gulp". Do they take fish bait situations. I heard from the Tackle Shop assistance that they can be targeted during the summer in deeper water situations. Can someone comment on these. For the present moment I am using a very light spinning rod and reel and the typical danish spinner without the hook and an ORANGE silk bundle. I find this excellent in a weedy situation.Thanks for the webpage and the right to ask questions..
Joe (aka Chevy) is a better picture taker than fly fisher. Give him a 9
Thanks for the primer
I've tried it using light colored rosin and bees wax I bought long ago to make a gun stock wax I once worked on.
I have 3 tubes of wonder wax I won't use for normal every day use. And have been tying production for a number of years. I share the opinion of many tyers that wonder wax is the finest dubbing wax ever used with betts and loon coming second but still nothing like it
The first wax I had made turned out a little hard. I reheated it and added more rosin and a bit more olive oil. Very nice I like it I feel excited that I can recreate wonder wax if I use darker rosin.
Time will tell. But I like what I'v made now better than any store bought product.
Many tyers are still longing for wonder wax to come back.
I often wondered why someone never studied and recreated the recipe.
I guess it's one of those things where it's far easier to buy a tube of something and get to tying.
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