Streamer fly success.

[JeffinNZ]

Team.

When out this morning for a fish. The river is finally running perfect in height and colour. The Waimak' runs a bit milky most of the year so I pair up streamers flies with the top one being a yellow rabbit and the bottom one, about 3 feet below, a duplicate of the bait fish for the time of year. The yellow rabbit is the wake up call you see. The 'whitebait' are beginning to run so I tied up some streamers of my own pattern to simulate them. I used the white belly fur of a rabbit pelt I tanned last week. A small tuft of white feather on top and a couple of strands of rainbow flashabou to boot:

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Straight of the vice they look like a shaving brush but slick down to look something like a bait fish. About the fourth cast resulted in this:

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3-4lb sea run brown trout. Will serve for dinner this evening. The time of day was far from perfect being late morning but I can't complain.

Here is the river looking upstream:

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The clear water is a tributary that runs into the Waimakariri and I like to fish the confluence of the two where the milky water and clear meet.

Back to tying vice to prepare some more.

[camaro1st]

nice looking streamers. i like to tie also i find that i forget all around when i do. do you do any fly rod fishing?

[geargnasher]

The Brownies we have here don't get that big, what a nice fish!

Gear

[JeffinNZ]

Not using a fly rod yet but will.

That's a small sea run by local standards Gear. Some hit double figures.

[camaro1st]

it almost as addictive as this casting thing is

[bruce drake]

Nice Baby Brownie ;)

But then again, I was spoiled for the last 7 years with Great Lakes Brownies that cleared 5-10 pounds on a regular basis. I an certain I won't see them anytime soon in Kansas though so I am jealous of the fish and the beautiful river you are getting to fish.

Bringing one in on an 8ft flyrod is a trick in its own. Those streamers (nice job, by the way)really come to life when you don't have a casting bubble dragging them down. I'd suggest a White Ghost or a Roxey Pattern in your future tying adventures.

Roxey Patterns
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/articles/oldflies/2009/oldflies20091109.php

White Ghost
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/oldflies/oldflies20090817.php

I personally need to start tying flies for bluegills and bass in Kansas so my Flyrods don't wither in the dust for the next couple of years.

Bruce


Bruce

[JeffinNZ]

Baby brown indeed. ;-)

What was very satisifying was as I walked down the water a guy and his son walked with me with their dog. 'Dad' asked about the fishing and I said I hadn't been out much of late. Five minutes later they walk back past me as I wade in fish in net. 'Dad' says "Was that the first cast!?" to which I replied all nonchalant "no, about the fourth, you don't want to rush these things". We had a good natter and I showed them what I was fishing with. Don't mind sharing the love.

[bruce drake]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_5255039cd81e362e.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=6427)

Here is my buddy Mark Leddon and a Brown Trout he caught just outside of Pulaski, New York in a tributary of Lake Ontario...

Jeff, You need to come to the States and do some real Brownie fishing ;)

Bruce

[JeffinNZ]

What sorta steriods do you feed them. LOL.

[TCLouis]

Nice, VERY NICE!!!

[popper]

bruce drake - try Branson, almost anywhere on the White or Norfolk. Milford has walleye, pike and muskie. Half-size those streamers for bas, wooly buggers and prince nymh for BG.

[429421Cowboy]

Very nice, i have always loved streamer fishing! As with shooting so i can reload, i fish so i have a reason to tie! Rabbit strips are one of my favorites for streamers and they never have found anything to beat marabou for the lifelike action underwater. We tie something close to what you have there the is a Screaming Copper Zonker or close to it, with the copper body.
A brown trout is a brown trout, no matter how big they are it's always a thrill! (and i try not to tell the diehard trout bums that the really BIG ones fall for a copper spoon just as well as a streamer)

[camaro1st]

bruce the perch are a blast to play with and bite on about anything. a 4 pound farm pond bass will get the "flies" all stirred up. i like to tie a deer hair mouse for the bass. there is rainbow at fort riley by manhatten if you really get to missing it.

[popper]

milford or tuttle creek?

[camaro1st]

there are some at tuttle creek but there is a couple of streams at the fort that they have stocked.

[Rick N Bama]

My 11YO Grandson has just gotten a cheap Fly Rod for his birthday. Yesterday he landed his first fish on it, a Spotted Bass that went all of about three ounces or so:) He was just as proud of it as if it had weighed three pounds and I was as well:) I was about to get the necessary picture when he took it off & released it back into the lake.

Rick

[onceabull]

Bring your flotation device..(belly boat,baby pontoon, canoe,et al) Fly rod ( 8-9 weight recommended), Some really large floating mouse patternz, set out at night on one of the arms of Hebgen Res.,. Iffen a double digit (lbs) brownie comes,try not to scream... Onceabull

[onceabull]

Some of those zxzxxzqnnxn meat fishermen,are known to use spinning or baitcasting gear, and live mice lashed to 1-2 big singles,or the old long shank double hooks... Onceabull

[popper]

Rick N Bama - My GS's 1st got in a fight with the worm. I think the worm won. GS was wide eyed and grinning ear to ear until I told him to kiss it and take it off the hook. Yes, live bait works on a fly rod.

[camaro1st]

popper the kissing of the fish can be entertaining. Here was the girls first. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_15546506738057c403.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=6858)