I took this dunt out for some swimming lessons. Before and After.
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Dunt swimming lessons.
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Dunt swimming lessons. |
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Posts: 90 12/08/2008 01:45 |
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Posts: 147 12/08/2008 07:40 |
Thats a great pair of photos man, the water does a Dunt nicely
 CJ
What color and material is the butt made of? Boy does that pop. |
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roycestearns |
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Posts: 92 12/08/2008 12:29 |
John, the blue is a rayon which always stays brighter than silk, but I've also got a bit of mylar under it to help light it up. I actually posted this
after we did a test over at RL's this weekend with KF and Cotinga, because of the blue. Interesting stuff.
The other thing I learned with this swimming lesson, any dee that I'm going to take swimming needs to have stiffer wings or double wings. This turkey I have here is way to soft, the fly looks/acts like a spey rather than a dee in the water.
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Posts: 1481 12/09/2008 14:36 |
Royce,
A fine couple of pics here. Sure wish I had a reason/river to swing flies like those. Beautiful ties!! Jeremy.
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Posts: 6 12/09/2008 16:42 |
Royce-
Pretty fly, and nice pictures. I fish speys and dees exclusively in the winter for browns and steelhead, and I have found that the wings practically mean nothing. It's the hackle that bring the fish. I have fished countless flies where the wings took a beating to the point where they all but disappeared, and still hooked up. If the hackle was too short, no grabs, ever. After 8 or 9 years of these same tendencies, I am convinced that long hackle with a lot of motion are what triggers strikes in the lethragic winter fish. I don't usually fish these in the summer, so I cannot say much about that, but for fall, winter and spring steelhead, I use long hackle on either a spey or dee (typically size 1-1/0, illegal to use a hook with bigger than a 1/2 inch gape here) and it works like a charm. If you think about it, the wing profile is so small, they are often light colored, and the fish are usually seeing these flies from below, so the wings are barely visible. Nice fly, and keep fishing those dees and speys, they work! Ryan |
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roycestearns |
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Posts: 95 12/09/2008 22:20 |
Jeremy thanks.
Ryan. Agree the spees and dees work well. On our winter steelies we want to get the flies down an on their nose so the advantage to a dee with a stiff wing at the right angle is that it will dive with just a bit of tension. The tight wing on a spey stays in place for me and really looks shrimp like. As you mentioned a good long hackle with a lot of movement seems to be a key item as well. Do you swing for browns as you do for steelhead? And are the browns sea-run? |
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Posts: 8 12/10/2008 09:34 |
Royce- We fish on the swing for the browns too. They are lake run fish, from Lake Michigan. Sadly we are iced over now, so no more fishing until spring, but it's not unusual to haul in 20+ lb browns when the time is right. They don't fight like a steelhead, they make one run, maybe another small run, and then they sort of swim in, but it's still a thrill. Our rivers are not particulary big, and in most places you will be fishing in 2-4 feet of water on a good run here. A lof of guys pile up at the dams and soak spawn, but there is now a big group of us fishing Burkheimer spey rods, and we have developed our own group of spots to fish on the swing. On the speys looking like shrimp, I always found that interesting, we have the mysis (sp?) shrimp in the great lakes, but they are tiny, and white. We have crayfish and such in the rivers, but we don't get a summer run of fish, so the crayfish are holed up by the time the big boys from the lake swim in. We get a big run of King and Coho, followed in by some curious browns and steelhead. Then a hit of browns, late in fall, early winter, then some fish holdover under the ice until spring when the Steelies really charge. I will have to experiment with the dee flies diving, I have not seen that before, might be time to fill up my bathtub 
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Posts: 97 12/11/2008 02:18 |
The west coast shrimp is a "common saltwater shrimp" about 1 - 3 inches in length, and the bait guys fish them and eggs for steelhead and then plug
cut herring for salmon. The bait guys have all kinds of secret mixes and colors to brighten and juice them up.
The bathtub has been used for many experiments around here. |
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