Fishing, my ongoing passion
My most recent fishing project has been the development of a technique that I call Micro Baiting with Vibes. This is turning out to be an exciting type of fishing and I will detail that in a future post.
rainbow trout
Snowy Mountains Trout v’s Redfin
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It’s a hatch of booby blobs …
I tied up a few extra coral and white booby blobs today. I’m hooping that they will work as well in N.Ireland at the Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships as they work on rainbows here in Australia. Head off on 24th August.
Booby blob
Both boobies and blobs are each tremendous search flies in their own right particularly for stocked rainbow trout. This fly presents the best of both of those worlds and has the head an tail of a booby and the body of a blob. With a little flash in the tail it’s one screamer of an attractor pattern.
Olive epoxy bugger -silver TBH, UV spine & orange butt
Because of the lack of body dressing and the epoxy body this fly sinks quickly and the mirage tinsel spine that I have added flashes, in a way I am confident will be enticing, to stocked rainbows in particular, as the fly is being worked back to the boat or shore are very enticing.
Shrek – original
This fly was out of left field as far as I am concerned and when first introduced to it had no great expectation of it finding its way into my fly box. I was wrong. The bright tinsel body certainly stands out and rather than spooking fish as I expected it seems to trigger a response from trout particularly in “smelt” water or slightly discolored or tannin water.