Photo Call – Jr. Flyfishergirls Wanted!
FLYFISHERGIRL.COM wants to showcase more photos of junior flyfishergirls. If you know a junior flyfishergirl, or are one yourself, and would like to share your pictures with us, we would love to post them on the Junior Flyfishergirls page.
Please send pictures to info@flyfishergirl.com. Since the site administrator is on a bandwidth allowance much of the year, please reduce the file size to a maximum of 1MG per photo. 3 photos allowed per submission.
Please include your first & last name, the species of fish, and a little bit of info, such as type of gear used, where you were fishing, or who you were fishing with. Lastly, please provide photo credit info.
Walter Hit A Klinkhammer
There are two Rainbow on my home waters that i know very well. Both have lived in the same locations for a few years, and each season i can hang my hat on at least one encounter with each of them. I had the pleasure of meeting Walter again a couple of days ago.
Steve and I did some trouting for the afternoon, as as we hiked up the trail to ‘The Lunch Pool’, i chatted about Walter, and explained where he liked to lie and his preference for dries over nymphs. Steve is from the UK and a fabulous tier, using ONLY his own flies. He tied on a Klinkhammer, and on the first cast into Walter’s digs, we met again.
I can tell it is Walter due to a large black marking on his right eye. Last summer he had a run in with another fish, and a secondary black mark appeared behind his right eye, so there is no mistaking him in any way. Rosie, on the other hand, does not have any markings, but her massive girth gives her away every time.
I like to name resident fish. It gives me something to look forward too, as greeting old friends with respect never gets old. Mind you, i am pretty sure Walter has some choice words for me. Am i the only weirdo who has pet fish? C’mon, i can’t be! Someone else out there must have a Brutus too…
The Women’s Outdoor News
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Gear Review – Tube Dry Flies
I recently received some innovative tube dry flies from Jesper Fohrmann of www.fishmadman.com. They are simply amazing. Hand tied Monster Tube-Caddis and Tube Bombers. I know they are going to be deadly for steelhead.
They are tied on very light plastic tubes, and are feather light because of that. Tying on a tube instead of a metal hook will allow the fly to stay on top longer, if not all the time, without the need for floatant or a riffle hitch.
The quality of workmanship in these flies is very evident at first glace. The deer hair is spun extremely tight, clipped smoothly, and the hackles spun equally and evenly down the fly. These flies have an extremely pleasing silhouette. An added aesthetic of opal flashabou sets them apart from the industry standard.
Without a doubt i will recommend these flies to anyone interested in fishing for salmon or steelhead on the surface.
Cheap & Free Tying Materials
I tied up some dries a couple of nights ago. They are a little ragged, I admit, but in my defense it was late, dark, and my 6 year old headlight is on its way out. However, what I used for the bodies on most of them was cat hair. I stalked the two cats and dubbed the flies with their fur. I found that their hair worked better than synthetic materials, and I will continue to use cat hair for bodies over store bought materials any day. Now I just need to find some purple cats…
Can anyone share with me some tips & tricks for cheap & free materials that worked out well?
Safety when angling – what’s yours?
Winning a contest at Fishing Jones about misery and fishing prompted me to write my story about what happened in that particular incident.
This got me to thinking, people say I am a paranoid freak about safety when guiding and angling. I tend to think I am just very aware. However it may be, I know I have prevented some serious situations when out in the field due to looking over my shoulder every 30 seconds.
In my part of the world, Grizzlies and Moose are what you don’t want to run into on the river. If you do, you need to know how to handle them – especially if things go sideways.
I am curious to know what kind of predators & dangerous animals are in your parts of the woods (2 legged count), and what measures do you take to ensure safety for yourself and your friends/clients when on the water? Have you had a close call? And, if so, how did you prevent it?
Bamboo Rod Building
Fellow flyfishergirl, Kathy Scott shares with us a glimpse into her world.
More Diane Miller Fine Art Photography
Holy mackerel: Finally a fish that isn’t on the verge of dying out
If we continue to fish and consume on the scale we do now, most seafood will be extinct by 2048.
very few years, a documentary comes along that is so powerful, persuasive and frightening that it actually has the power to change the way we think and act. The End Of The Line, based on Charles Clover’s excellent book of a few years back, is just that.
Filmed over two years, it examines the long-term costs of our ravenous appetite for seafood. If we continue to fish and consume on the scale we do now, most seafood will be extinct by 2048. We would literally have fished the seas dry.
This doesn’t just mean an end to fish and chips, and grilled Dover sole, but the very real prospect of mass starvation, too. As for the bluefin tuna, time has pretty much run out already. Stocks are collapsing and extinction is imminent, all because we can’t live without our tuna sushi.
But there is hope.
The End Of The Line isn’t just content with revealing the awful truth, but o ffers solutions, too; such as reducing the number of fishing boats that scour the oceans, and putting large areas off -limits to the trawlers.
Finally, educating us, the consumer, about sustainable fish, and making sure we buy our fish from certified fisheries. Sensible, pragmatic and downright terrifying, this film is a must-see.
But buying fish can be fraught with all sorts of environmental concerns. For me, the best starting point is the Marine Conservation Society Good Fish Guide, which gives you all the information you need to know.
As for summer fish, I don’t think there’s a beast more suited to the season than mackerel. Cheap, healthy, sustainable and possessing some of the sweetest flesh in the sea, it’s a choice with no downside.
As for summer fish, I don’t think there’s a beast more suited to the season than mackerel. Cheap, healthy, sustainable and possessing some of the sweetest flesh in the sea, it’s a choice with no downside.
With a sleek, muscular body, a firm jaw and dazzling iridescent hues on its skin (those stunning blues and greens provide perfect oceanic camouflage), it’s impossible not to fall for its charms.
Sadly, many of us have met the fish in its dotage: flabby, oily and stridently fishy.
‘Without freshness, it is nothing,’ warns Jane Grigson in her Fish Book
AND HERE’S HOW TO EAT IT
Makerel Tataki
Toast sesame seeds (2 tsp) in small frying pan until golden brown. Fillet, debone and skin fish. Chop into small pieces and place in bowl. Peel ginger (1/2 thumb) and chop very fine. Pull off outer layer of two small spring onions and cut into rings. Add onions, ginger and seeds to fish. Mix with soy sauce, sesame oil and lemon juice. And it’s done!
Pickin’ your pocket
Pictured above, the wader pocket contents of one of our good friends and fellow guide, R. I see a Werther’s Original candy wrapper, some cigarette butts (errrm, smoking is bad for you, ok kids?), a chunk of mono and a miscellaneous fly. Hey, that’s my fly!
Right now, what’s in your wader pockets? After surfing through mine i came up with…Blistex, Excel cinnamon gum, 2 bearbanger pens (found one that someone dropped on the trail) and 3 cartridges, a lighter, trout forceps, a chunk of bright pink yarn, gink, 18 inches of 8.4 lb mono, and a small metal wedge.
I always believed that the state of your house and car can give a lot of insight into your character. But, what about your waders? Do they tell a story?
Not sure what is said about me, but i do have to go fix an axe later.