Comments on: Texas Rose Muddler

By: Marius Imingen

Marius Imingen — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:56:15 +0000

Hey Dave!

I`m a 20 year old boy from Norway and I have been doing with flytying and flyfishing for almost 9 years now, but I learn something new in every lesson you got!

Thank you for making the lessons! I`m looking forward to more lessons!

From a fan in Norway, Marius.

By: irish angler

irish angler — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:35:23 +0000

i love this fly

By: Michael Storgaard

Michael Storgaard — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:08:13 +0000

Hi Dave
I admire your work and tied almost every fly from your videos…
So i was wnadering when we are gonna see some new tying lessons ?
Your fan Michael

By: DaveC

DaveC — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:59:07 +0000

Hi Nick
All the muddler variants can be good on their day. I did use a head guard myself a few years ago. I made it out of a piece of plastic from a plastic milk carton. Made 2 with different size hole to go over the eye.
Thanks for your comment much appreciated.
Happy Fishing
DaveC. and the Team

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:57:04 +0000

Great fly. Smiler to one I tie. As for a whip finish(or 1/2 hitch) use a hair gaurd. Cut a 1in x1 in piece of a baggie. Tie the fly like normal. poke eye of hook thru plastic. Pull on plastic. 1/2 hitch or whip finish. Cut away plastic.

By: topflyman

topflyman — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:19:27 +0000

Hi Marco
Sorry about delay in replying.
Do you know how many stonefly patterns there are?
The stone fly spends 95% of its life as a nymph at which stage it is the most attractive to the trout.
The dry fly could be sat in your box for a long time waiting for a hatch.
Have had to ease off on the tutorials because of trouble with my fingers. Professor Davis at the QMC. has given me injections and a window of opportunity last week.We will have to try and get something out in the next 2 weeks
Happy Fishing
DaveC.and the Team

By: Marco Alessi

Marco Alessi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:06:49 +0000

How about a Stonefly tutorial! That would be great!

By: marco alessi

marco alessi — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:07:40 +0000

Dear Mr Cammis,

I watch your videos with great joy and have learned a huge amount from these tutorials. I find them extremely theraputic and rewarding even when my flies don’t come out quite right. For me It’s like going to the source of what it all means and only there in the centre of fly tying can one truly think like a real fish and become the master hunter that was intended.
Now Winter is almost over and the snowdrops are out, with great eagerness I look forward to using my new arsenal of deadly Nymps, Daddys, Caddis and favourite of all the ever varied Muddler.
So Once again I can not thank you enough for helping me through this cold Winter and providing me with over a hundred new flies to hunt with!
Best,

Marco Alessi

By: themaninthemoon

themaninthemoon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:24:49 +0000

Ok, I’m back, had to take a 6 hr nap.
On the the 2nd species, another blackbass/sunfish species, the Smallmouth Bass, or smallie as it is commonly called. Now this fish simply loves cold water, rocky/gravel bottoms, has the distinct shape of the American football as they grow huge shoulders as they get larger/older. It takes a long time for a smallie to grow to the weight of a 6 – 6 & 1/2 lb. fish, (about 12 years), yet most states require that they must be a minimum of 14 inches long before you can take one. It will be your mistake to underscore the ferocity of this breed, as a 6 & 1/2 lb.’er almost yanked my rod and me into the drink at the base of the Norway dam @ the southern tip of Lake Schafer, Monticello, Indiana. The sudden, and very powerful strike only serves to inflame the imagination of what’s on the other end of your line, as you must scramble rapidly to recover your composure, only pretending that you actually know what you’re doing. Feeding on crayfish, minnows, and other various species that inhabit the nooks & crannies of well strewn, rocky streams, rivers, and lakes with riprap along the shorelines, and/or gravel beds, the jig & minnow is a perfect compliment for a smallie on the browse.
Blues, yellows, greens, and orange colored wrapped jigs provide incentive to attract the attention of these fine eating fish. A 6 & 1/2 lb. smallie gave me 4 fillets, about 1 & 1/4 inch thick, plenty to provide 2 meals apiece for me & the wife.
Enough for now, I’ll talk about the ghostly flourescent green-eyed walleye on the next post.
John

By: themaninthemoon

themaninthemoon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:32:31 +0000

Hello, hello, hello! I’ve been busy for the past week or so & hadn’t gotten around to jumping back on the page.
Ok, here’s a rundown on the types of fish that we have here in the midwest.
1st off there’s Ol’ Bucketmouth (Largemouth Bass/ Black bass) belongs to the sunfish family. Here in Indiana, I’ve caught them up to 7 & 1/2 pounds (lb), or 23 & 1/2 inches long (sorry, I don’t have the metric conversion available). Their weight can run up to 26 Lb.s? (I think that is the record size, but don’t quote me). And they start getting shoulders around the five to seven lb mark. When caught in an impoundment that has little or no current they start getting fat around 15 inches. They are really prime for filleting at 17 inches and up from there. I got really tired of losing fish due to rod breakage, or my line’s tensile strength, combined with anywhere from 3 to 10 lb.s of weeds. I had been using 6 lb Berkeley line on an 8 & 1/2 foot St. Croix rod, with an open face reel. I now use 20 lb test braided Spiderwire , (has the diameter of 6lb mono), on a $20.00, 2 pc., 7 foot, Rhino “Indestructible” rod. Caught a 30 inch Northern Pike while fishing for the LG Mouth bass in August. Guesstimating the weight at about 9 & 1/2 lb.s, maybe a little more. He was really fat, feeding on bluegill around a brushy area at JC Murphy Lake, aka Willow Slough. It is approximately an hours drive from where I live at the southern most tip of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana. I would love to have the opportunity to travel more myself, but it is just too darn expensive anymore.
This coming year I’ll be trying out the flyrod again on a 1979 Ranger Bass boat with a 115 hp Johnson, that, (believe it or not ), I got for the fine price of “FREE”. It’s a little rough, but it sets well in the water, and the motor works fine. It is why I’ve been busy. But winter shall soon be upon us, and I’ll have more time to commit to my tying. I’ll tell you about another species in my next post.
What types of fish species do you have in the UK? You mentioned the grayling, a subspecies of the salmon, right?
Ok, gotta go for now, so fly low, tie it in tight,
John