{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: trout beads vs egg flies

Death-by-banality!  

More good entries -- so, bead/hook isn't fly fishing.  Split shot and sucker spawn is -- the distinction being the yarn tied to the hook?  What if I used strike putty on the line above the hook, but it looks like an egg?

What about Czech nymphing with no fly line?  Oh, or what about if I use a 2-fly rig and the upper fly is a bead, and the bottom one is a huge hook dressed with thread (thread midge)?  

Gene

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:28:26 AM UTC-4, Yambag Nelson wrote:

It was not a stereotype, it is a fact.  I don't know how much time you have spent on the great lakes tribs, but it is a fact that a lot of the guys fishing egg patterns are unintentionally (or in many cases intentionally) lining fish.  So I did answer his question regarding foul hookups.  It happens a lot more than people would like to admit.  Also, nowhere did he mention reading it in a flyfishing magazine so you make want to work on your reading comprehension.  I'm guessing he read it on the internet and not in flyfishing magazine but who knows.  I would cancel my subscription if that was the kind of crap they were writing about.   

You seem very sensitive on this topic.  I honestly don't care how people fish as long as it is legal/ethical but this is a flyfishing forum last I checked.   Not sure why we are discussing other techniques here, surely there is a more appropriate forum somewhere.

Your last point is just retarded. 

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:15:56 PM UTC-4, Smalliefly wrote:

Yambag,

  Posts like yours do nothing to help anyone and simply fuel the stereotype that "you" fly fishers are pompous jerks.  Have to say "you" because I probably do not count as a fly fisher in your book.  Guess that is my gain.  Assume that you only fish a dry after you have seen a fish rise and such…

  The egg fisher stereotype was not terrible (but still an overgeneralizing stereotype), but the follow on about meat chucker and skein does absolutely no help to anyone, especially the original poster trying to figure out a new way to catch a fish (and check for peoples experiences, if it is legal, if it reduces foul hookups, etc).  And since he read it in a "fly fishing" magazine, that magazine must not be worthy of your version of "true" fly fishing. 

  Oh, wait, don't I recall you posting about fishing a woolly bugger and a Clouser?  You may as well get a spinning rod and throw some marabou jigs and bucktail jigs because you surely were not fly fishing.

Have a good evening!

 

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