{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Soft hackle challenge

Nice work Alarge, I love me some Beaver.

Swing Gene, gloves can be really great just get ones with the thumb and finger covers so you don't have to take them off. I've also heard people using latex gloves. Keeping water off your digits is huge.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 1:55:36 PM UTC-7, TurbineBlade wrote:

Well done!  Let me ask you a question as a fellow, cold weather angler - do you find  that those gloves (or any gloves for that matter) actually help with hand warmth?  I generally hate gloves, as I find that they tend to absorb at least *some water (despite claims on the package) and are actually worse than nothing. 

I usually try to just keep my head and core warm and hope my fingers follow suit.  That said, I'm willing to try gloves.  Maybe my opinion will change one day ;)

Gene

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 3:41:30 PM UTC-5, ALarge wrote:

It was a balmy 18° at the Beave on MLK day but I managed keep the ice off my eyelets long enough to land this pair of 'bows. Was fishing a dry dropper, beadhead pheasant tail nymph under a catskill-style BWO. Both hooked into the nymph. 

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 12:44:12 PM UTC-5, Justin Schiavone wrote:

Nice work "Swing Genie". Catching cats on the fly is so cool. Especially when sight fished. Crazy it ate a SH.

 I had every intention on swinging flies this weekend in honor of this post, but the fish just were not active enough. They were mostly on dead drifted nymphs- baetis mayflies, olive, size 20.. so I was mostly on 100 proof shnops with hot chocolate: (.

3 days of fishing and only one decent BWO hatch. Sight fished to a few good fish feeding in the film too, but mostly got into small stockies-still fun. Found a new midge pattern that yielded too, "Sprout midge", check it out. Most of my fish were on a crippled BWO though.

Who else got out there?

On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 1:03:36 PM UTC-7, TurbineBlade wrote:

Off to a reasonable start this weekend, even with leaky waders (there's another blow-out pair for the pile).  You always know you have a leak when you feel unusually cold for a given temp. 

Sight-casted 2 small catfish with a tung-bead soft hackle.  Always cast to them and they seldom move for anything.  Don't know why they did yesterday.  

Caught one of the most hefty sunfish I've ever caught on a "pheasant and red".  Pic not great, but that dude was probably close to 1" thick.  

Lost count of other sunfish, small bass, etc.  Couple of crappie. 

Gave up my spot earlier today for a guy and his kid who were fishing from the bank -- they looked like they were having a good time. 

Gene 

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:37:06 AM UTC-5, namfos wrote:

Gene, funny you should mention "super normal stimulus" and the link takes one to a Wikipedia page with an Earth Mother figurine - something that figured largely, along with the "sacred fire," in my long ago and still influential undergraduate education. Good point about having enough room to "lift."  As for the upstream method, it's IMO about the same level of difficulty as high-sticking with nymphs (and no bobbers, er, indiicators) On vacation in Ontario each year soft hackles and flymphs are true slayers of sunfish for the frying pan - esp  on a 3 or 4 wt.

Mark

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:20:06 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

I've read some things about Nemes and I own and have read the Hughes book quite a bit.  Stewart was before both of them and was a proponent of the upstream method, which to me is possibly the hardest thing to master in fly fishing. 

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