11-07-2006, 03:31 AM
DryRod,
Yes, I tied the fly in my avatar. It is a very common fly, a stimulator. I like fishing it because it floats through rough currents, its big so it is easy to see and the fish like it a lot in the summer time.
Several years ago I was floating the Gunnison river with guide. I had a sofa pillow which is a stimulator will thick hackling on the front on with copper john dropper. Fishing near the bank as we floated. It had been like a half hour and I had not even had a bite. After a while I made a comment to my guide, one I had hired several other times, that maybe I needed to change to a different fly. My guide did not say a thing while we both watched my fly drift with the current. A swallow dive bombed the fly and flew off with it. When the swallow felt the weight of the line and the growing tension it droped the fly. After landing on the water it floated about three feet and a rainbow jumped and grabbed. As I got the rainbow near the boat my guide said that it looked like a good fly to him. Later on I noticed that when we changed flys he put it on his fly patch. He had never kept one of my flys before but had given me a number of flys. The year before He had taught me how to tie a stimulator while we sat in chairs at a table in middle of a shallow riffle on Gunnison River and drank his home brewed beer. It was birthday present my wife at the time had surpised me with.
It is not a hard fly to tie but has a lot of steps to it. It takes me quite a while to tie them. So much so that I was going to tie a dozen of them for silent auction at the end of this month. After getting 8 tied I said to heck with it and tied up a half dozen Royal Wulffs to go along with the 8.
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Yes, I tied the fly in my avatar. It is a very common fly, a stimulator. I like fishing it because it floats through rough currents, its big so it is easy to see and the fish like it a lot in the summer time.
Several years ago I was floating the Gunnison river with guide. I had a sofa pillow which is a stimulator will thick hackling on the front on with copper john dropper. Fishing near the bank as we floated. It had been like a half hour and I had not even had a bite. After a while I made a comment to my guide, one I had hired several other times, that maybe I needed to change to a different fly. My guide did not say a thing while we both watched my fly drift with the current. A swallow dive bombed the fly and flew off with it. When the swallow felt the weight of the line and the growing tension it droped the fly. After landing on the water it floated about three feet and a rainbow jumped and grabbed. As I got the rainbow near the boat my guide said that it looked like a good fly to him. Later on I noticed that when we changed flys he put it on his fly patch. He had never kept one of my flys before but had given me a number of flys. The year before He had taught me how to tie a stimulator while we sat in chairs at a table in middle of a shallow riffle on Gunnison River and drank his home brewed beer. It was birthday present my wife at the time had surpised me with.
It is not a hard fly to tie but has a lot of steps to it. It takes me quite a while to tie them. So much so that I was going to tie a dozen of them for silent auction at the end of this month. After getting 8 tied I said to heck with it and tied up a half dozen Royal Wulffs to go along with the 8.
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