The tie:
#14 Dohiku 301 hook
8/0 UNI thread pink
Coq de León tails
pink Gütermann sewing thread
two pink CDC feathers spun in loop
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Pink!
Tying pink mayflies to cheer up the arctic winter...
The tie:
#14 Dohiku 301 hook
8/0 UNI thread pink
Coq de León tails
pink Gütermann sewing thread
two pink CDC feathers spun in loop
The tie:
#14 Dohiku 301 hook
8/0 UNI thread pink
Coq de León tails
pink Gütermann sewing thread
two pink CDC feathers spun in loop
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Silk Thread Buzzer
A simple fly using two colors of the Gütermann silk thread - two olive threads and a single black tied side by side and then wound using the rotary feature of my vice. Otherwise plain vanilla buzzer.
The tie:
#10 stillwater hook
2 threads of olive 1 thread of black silk thread
TMC Aero Dry Wing, tied cross wise for breathers
Black Australian Opossum dubbing for thorax
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Anglo - Czech Angling Interactions
The long and distinguished history of fly fishing is full of surprises. I was fortunate to experience one of these by myself. A friend of mine, who was about to relocate from Prague, sold me a part of his large angling library. This included some pre war issues of UK fishing magazine Fishing Gazette. In one of them I was surprised to find an article by Czech fishing author MVDr. Václav Dyk, reporting on the successes of the first Englishmen to fish the Vltava river.
The article was published on June 17th 1939, and it referred to Mr. Dyk's findings in the records of the domain of Schwarzenbergs in Stožec, dated 1911. The first Englishmen were Messrs. Johnson & Morgan, who visited in 1911 and again in 1912, spending two weeks fishing on each occasion. Their report, as reproduced by Mr. Dyk, reads as follows:
It was interesting to note the things that have changed - and there were a lot of them: the state that Messrs. Johnson & Morgan visited was the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the state from which Mr. Dyk reported was Czechoslovakia and the country I live in now is the Czech Republic. The village formerly called Tusset has diminished after its German inhabitants were removed after WW II and goes by Czech name Stožec. A hundred years have passed.
But one thing has remained constant ever since the visit of the two adventurous Englishmen: the fishing in Upper Vltava is excellent. It remains one of the premier Graling rivers in my country and I will think of the two early visitors fondly the next time I visit there.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Pork 'n Beans CZ Nymphs
Working on a couple CZ nymph patterns today. Nothing fancy, just plain but nutritious fare to replenish my nymph boxes. A fine way to pass a foul weather day, sitting tight at my tying table, churning nymphs and listening to the History of Rome podcasts.
The tie:
# 8 Skalka Gammarus hook
tan elastic thread
a single layer of flat lead
4 mm golden olive shellback
0.16 mm monofilament spinning line
homemade rabbit dubbing, Golden Olive
homemade mohair dubbing, black
a touch of black CD marker
The tie:
# 8 Skalka Gammarus hook
tan elastic thread
a single layer of flat lead
4 mm brown olive olive shellback
0.16 mm monofilament spinning line
homemade rabbit dubbing, Medium Olive
homemade mohair dubbing, Hot Orange
homemade mohair dubbing, Black
a touch of black CD marker
The tie:
# 8 Skalka Gammarus hook
tan elastic thread
a single layer of flat lead
4 mm brown olive shellback
0.16 mm monofilament spinning line
homemade rabbit dubbing, Brown Olive
homemade mohair dubbing, Claret
homemade mohair dubbing, Black
a touch of black CD marker
Thursday, January 5, 2012
A little promo...
Definitely worth a look, not least because the editor deemed worthy of publication a recent story by yours truly.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The last trout of 2011
The 2011 trout fishing season in the Czech Republic is now officially over. Today the trout waters closed, not to open until April next year.
The winter frosts have arrived, and cold weather is slowly making fishing unpractical. The night temperature on upper Vltava, which has brought me so much sport in September and October, has dropped to -10°C and the river is thick with ice; the ice cover makes the grayling safe from raiding North Sea cormorants though, which is not entirely bad.
For my closing day fishing trip I decided to visit the river Ohře. It is a tailwater fishery, with relatively warm water flowing from the Nechranice dam. As such it had a decent hatch of Blue Winged Olives even in late November. But the fish were already feeling sluggish and the steady flow of #18 duns was met with very few rises.
After trying the dry fly for some time with no success I determined that my last good chance to get in contact with a fish was a deeply fished nymph. I tied on a heavy pink bug, looking as a cross of a maggot and a strawberry, and was rewarded by a couple of fish. This brownie, caught at half past 3 on November 30th was my last fish of the 2011 Trout season.
The tie:
#12 TMC 2302 hook, debarbed
3,3 mm Tungsten bead + flat lead underbody
red Benecchi thread
pink embroidery thread for the body
The winter frosts have arrived, and cold weather is slowly making fishing unpractical. The night temperature on upper Vltava, which has brought me so much sport in September and October, has dropped to -10°C and the river is thick with ice; the ice cover makes the grayling safe from raiding North Sea cormorants though, which is not entirely bad.
For my closing day fishing trip I decided to visit the river Ohře. It is a tailwater fishery, with relatively warm water flowing from the Nechranice dam. As such it had a decent hatch of Blue Winged Olives even in late November. But the fish were already feeling sluggish and the steady flow of #18 duns was met with very few rises.
After trying the dry fly for some time with no success I determined that my last good chance to get in contact with a fish was a deeply fished nymph. I tied on a heavy pink bug, looking as a cross of a maggot and a strawberry, and was rewarded by a couple of fish. This brownie, caught at half past 3 on November 30th was my last fish of the 2011 Trout season.
The tie:
#12 TMC 2302 hook, debarbed
3,3 mm Tungsten bead + flat lead underbody
red Benecchi thread
pink embroidery thread for the body
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