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Carbon, Cane & Fibreglass Fly Rods. Let's talk about it.
In the early 1960s when I first started fishing split cane was still the most popular rod-making material and fiber glass was just starting to become popular. However my first ever coarse fishing rod was made of ash butt & middle sections with a greenheart wood tip. My first fly rod, bought in the early 1960s, was a second hand 9’ cane rod built by E. Kerry of Lockton, a small village near Pickering.
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My favourite flies for Grayling fishing in Winter
Presentation is another critical factor in achieving success & grayling are just as unpredictable with respect to this. Sometimes they want a fly ‘on the drop’ & often they will travel quite a distance to take a fly as it slowly sinks. So there are times that it doesn’t pay to fish a fast-sinking, heavily weighted fly.
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Fly Fishing for Grayling & Trout in Poland with Sunray Microlite GT 10' #2 Fly Rod
The Grand Tourer is a concept, really, that I discussed once with Tom, and he has taken it in a direction more imaginative perhaps than mine. While the fly rod industry seems so focussed on four piece single handed fly rods, the Sunray panache has delivered the next step, married with beautiful, five piece blanks and subtle componentry. Load the GT with one of the gorgeous ‘dry fly’ lines, and you have touring perfection on any open river. Anywhere.
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How many flies should you use per cast?
How many flies should we fish at the same time? There is no set answer to this question since there are numerous variables that must be considered before making an answer. In some cases the choice is already made. Several fly fishing clubs that I belong to restrict members to the use of one fly only. However, on many waters the answer is not so simple.
A deadly buzzer bloodworm fly. How to tie.
Remembering Dick Walker’s philosophy of caricaturing the natural organism being imitated and using some sort of bright target spot, I had decided to tie up some weighty, bright red buzzers, hoping they would quickly sink to the correct depth and would be easily visible to the fish in the low light and slightly murky water.
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