Mike G

Canada, where even the fish practice C&R. Jaws would not have thrown him back.

Bad analogy on my part. But maybe yoiu explained why pumping the fish is bad when you explained how CO2 levels affect the human body. The fish does not drown (that would be oxygen deprivation); it undergoes a process similar to human hyperventilation (too much O in the water being forced through the gills). "Forced" is the important word. Too much of something disrupts the balance like the lack of CO2 in the hyperventilated human. We have a lot of similarities with fish. Anyway pumping back and forth is bad. Moving foreward is OK and may help. "For a fish to efficiently transfer oxygen from the water to the blood stream, water must pass over the gill surfaces in a front-to-back direction. Moving a fish back-and-forth in the water does not optimize oxygen uptake and can even be detrimental to recovery. Holding a fish steady allow the fish to naturally pulse the gills inducing flow over the gill surfaces." See:http://www.dnr.state...spx?tabid=18624 http://fishandboat.c...tch_release.htm

Whenever two fisherman meet, there are really six people present. There is each fisherman as he sees himself, each fisherman as the other person sees him, and each fisherman as he really is. William James

Rob, Can a human hyperventilate? It comes down to too much of a good thing.

Nice video. I too was struck by the moonscape. I was also struck by the expert making three mistakes in a video less than three minutes long. 1. Holding a fly rod in a verticle or past verticle position while landing a fish is said to put too much stress on the rod. It can lead to a break now or later. 2. Holding a fish in a verticle position for a picture. OOps that is what I did in my avatar picture when I did not know better. It stresses the jaw and lets gravity pull the innards olut of place. 3. Pumping the fish back and forth to revive it before release. Many say this is too much water flow and can drown the fish. The up-to-date recommendation is holding the fish upright in the water till it swims out of your hand. If there is current point the fish's head into the current. Outside of that...

Achilles, his charioteer, Alexander, his horse’s groom, Julius Caesar, and his butler all this in common. They fished; they died. Marcus Aurelius

Who do you think we are, Google? Besides the ones you listed, Orvis has several locations with the one in Yorktown close to you. Lots of on-line sources. Feather-Crafters, Jann's Netcraft, and Barlow's are my go tos. I like Jann's and Barlow's because they each have a broader line of fishing gear-not just fly materials.

The HPU looks a lot like rich's Shannon Streamer in a weedless model. That means it will catch fish. It will be interesting to hear how well it keeps the weeds off. That half hour video is a challenge to watch but worth it in the end. Having read the Beattys' book on rotary tying, it always amazes me that tyers, who have high bucks rotary vises like the one in the video, do not use the rotary feature for simple things like wrapping thread and chenille. My only complaint.

I'ii get out the house paint and brushes.

Here's my sure cure. Let's start tradin' information on how to fish in dry low water conditions. Where do you fish? What do you use? How do you present? If Kevin's right about the jinx, our waters should be brimming over in no time. I'll start by suggesting that surface lures in low light conditions should really be productive.

35 Language is the indispensable mechanism of smallmouth fishing-of fishing such as ours that is molded, guided, enriched, and made possible by the accumulation of the past experience of members of the ISA. Dogs, cats, or chimpanzees do not, so far as we can tell, increase their wisdom, their information, or their control over their environment from one generation to the next, ISA members do. S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action.

Not bad for fly fishermen. Denny Brauer would have nailed it in the first flip...

Yes, I enjoyed it. The old saying is,"The Irish gave the bagpipe to the Scotts as a joke." We could also say, "The Brits gave flyfishing to the Yanks as a joke." Just as the bagpipe is a hard way to make music, the fly rod is a hard way to catch fish. None the less, there are fools who make music with a bagpipe; and there are fools who catch fish with a fly rod. Smile!

Everyone in Germany is a fisherman; the few who are not are idiots or lunatics. Adolph Hitler, 1938

Haiku? Summertime wishes Paul T Lucky Craft fishes Warning to bronzbacks

Never too late for good news like that..

Good work. The ISA logo maintains continuity though the look has changed. It is interesting that the hard copy I got is BW except for the cover while the archive version is color throughout. That is nice if you want to see the color of a lure. Actually all the photos look better in color. We could call this the swim jig issue. There is one on the cover; Terry mentions it in the NW report: Jonn features it it in his article; then Bart endoeses it in his interview. Am I right to assume that submissions for future issues should be sent to Jim J?

Goodness consists in the greatest fishing for the greatest number of people. John Stewart Mill

That brings back old memories. My wife and I used to enjoy camping in one of the W Co Forest preserves till the beer drinkingage went to 19 in "77. Then the preserve was full of buzzed skinny dipping teens every weekend. We switched to a private campground. Those were the days.

That is the idea, Rob. It is just something I heard and passed along. I have seen some moth eaten flies in the past-not pretty. You don't know what is on an animal that goes outside, while an indoor pet is low risk. Figure yoour risk. BTW I do not not wash because my coyote hide is clean. With some people, I make a bad joke that, when Gretel, our German Shepherd, died, I could not pass up the chance to get some 1st class AKC tying fur. These guys kick it up a notch: http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/flytalk/2012/01/domestic-pet-fly-patterns-best-recipe-wins-book http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/fishing/2010/04/deeter-fly-tying-roadkill-and-domestic-pet-hair

I use coyote fur from some strips I salvaged from a coat collar. Like your golden the skin has longer guard hairs and shorter cottony underfur. I cut bunchs close to the skin and then comb out the underfur to get the long guard hairs like the ones used for the tail on this bug. That leaves a lot of underfur for dubbing. What you brush out of your golden is mostly underfur. It would be hard to sort out the guard hairs unless you cut right off of the dog leaving a bedraggled looking pet. (Though the long fibers on golden's tail look great for streamers, I never had the heart to tie a Golden streamer.) Last thought. Wash the underfur before you use it on a fly.

If fish do not go to heaven, then, when I die, I want to go where they go. Will Rogers

“Catch-and -release may be good conservation, but it is ethically ambiguous. Between the man who kills and eats a fish and the man who derives pleasure from a trout’s panicked struggles, it’s worth asking who occupies the moral high ground. Or if there is any.” Ted Leeson, the Habit of Rivers, p. 114.

I was not thinking about that, Terry. BTW, how well does the pontoon work on fish?

A while back I wposted about Bloco's as a source for materials here is an update showing some of the results.. . " The kit contains 1/2 inch thick EVA sheets prepunched for body parts, details for eyes and teeth, and gadgets for forming joints. Instructions cover how to make several creatures and encourage kids to combine parts to create other creatures. Cost is $20-$30 depending on the kit. When you are done you have several hours of quality time with the child, 4 or more creatures the child can play with, and a lot of 1/2 inch EVA punch-out scraps for Bass Bugs. Here is a handful that I brought home the last time we visited. I wish I had brought more. The cylinders are 1/2 inch diameter and will be made into EZ pops and Lefty's bugs. Since EVA is easily glued with crazy glue, I can assemble longer bodies for larger bugs. Since a 1.5 inch long foam cylinder costs me over 50 cents from a fly tying supplier I was glad to get these as a byproduct of a good time with my grandson. The last few months i have been putting the found materials to use. I have finished off a variety of poppers which I will be using this spring. I am a shameless follower of the kitchen sink school of tying. I love foam and made some of the tails on the finished flies shown here from furniture duster bristles. After a while one starts to see great possibilities in a lot of things. Those figure eight shaped cutouts have me thinking of a certain water creature. Look out Blockheads!