06-19-2008, 03:19 AM
I know the Stars are a guinea feather. I would love to tie Salmon flies like that. I just have to get the right feathers to marry them together. A good friend does tie them. I have a red and a white Turkey feather that I think would marry together. Get two pieces identical and run your thumb down to combine them. He said with good feathers it really isn't that hard
Dry Rod. I had a 6' mono furled leader with a ring on the end. I took 4 feet of 4 lb fluoro and threaded through the loop and used a surgeon's loop to connect (like the eye of a hook) one side being 1 foot long the other 3 feet long. I attached a red worm to the longer then about 8" up I attache 3 "BB" size split shot. I attached a tan worm to the one foot side.
Then I attached a "Thingamabobber" indicator so that the overall length to fly was 7 1/2 feet (so about 1 1/2 foot from line connection).
Flipped it out and fished the shore line adding a little more distance each roll. The hook ups happened about 30' out on the seam of a riff.
The rivers may be blown but the fish are still there, just got to look for the fast to slow area, where the fish just sit with their mouth open.
With the river bottom being stirred up, a worm made sense.
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Dry Rod. I had a 6' mono furled leader with a ring on the end. I took 4 feet of 4 lb fluoro and threaded through the loop and used a surgeon's loop to connect (like the eye of a hook) one side being 1 foot long the other 3 feet long. I attached a red worm to the longer then about 8" up I attache 3 "BB" size split shot. I attached a tan worm to the one foot side.
Then I attached a "Thingamabobber" indicator so that the overall length to fly was 7 1/2 feet (so about 1 1/2 foot from line connection).
Flipped it out and fished the shore line adding a little more distance each roll. The hook ups happened about 30' out on the seam of a riff.
The rivers may be blown but the fish are still there, just got to look for the fast to slow area, where the fish just sit with their mouth open.
With the river bottom being stirred up, a worm made sense.
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