Why Bother?

[keniom]

On Tuesday, I was fishing a small stillwater using two home-tied flies – I had a triple-tone blob on the point and an orange hot head buzzer as a dropper.



I was using a 9 foot rod with a six weight floater and catching steadily on both – using a very slow retrieve.

After a couple of hours, I noticed that the ribbing had been chewed loose on the buzzer, so I clipped it away leaving the seal’s fur body and continued fishing.

Even later I realised that the dressing on the buzzer had loosened and was virtually undone, so I simply cut it all off, leaving the bare hook with the hot head bead (which had been glued in place).



As it was getting close to going home time, I couldn’t be bothered to replace the buzzer so went on fishing.

In the next half hour or so I caught another three fish, all on this bare hook buzzer.

Now I ask myself, why go to all the trouble of blending fur to get the correct texture, dubbing it onto the thread and then stretching ribbing material to produce a nicely segmented body when a bare hook does just as well?

For information, the hook is a Knapek Grub/Czech nymph Code G size 10 and the bead is a Firefly Hot Head Bead 3mm Orange.

[3lbgrayling]

Your Right.Why bother.

Jim

try wild fish

[guest21]

Originally Posted by zoomer

try wild fish

You're absolutely right - at times they're even more gullible!

[midlander]

Why not bother?

Why bother?

Firstly for the absolute pleasure you derive from tying flies. Almost equal to fishing itself.

Secondly, for the added pleasure and satisfaction you get from catching a fish on a pattern you have tied yourself.

Thirdly, for the satisfaction from making the capture a complete experience in terms of identifying the trout's food and being able to present it in an acceptable way. You know the fish will probably take a bead on a hook, or an orange blob, but you also know that it was feeding on black buzzers.

Worth all the bother in my opinion.

[saracen]

Yep,

Same thing happened to a friend when I was fishing with him on Lough Currane for seatrout he had 6 up and I finally asked him what he was catching on. A freeman's fancy!!
I had never heard of it!! It's a old pattern, ginger hackle tail silver body, ginger hackle and tips of blue jay for wings.
The wings came of it, still caught fish on it, the body started unravelling, still caught fish on it, the hackle was hanging of he still caught fish on it!!
I think he ended up with 15!! I forget how many I ended up with ok it was 2!!!

I can also remember fishing the river Bann once and spending ages fishing for one rising fish, I went through the box, but the thing would look at nothing, but still kept rising. Then a large white fluffy dandy lion seed pod blew across the fish, it came up and took it!! So packed my rod and went home!!!

Saracen

[arkle]

Take a look at the current ad's running for "The Essential Fly" as seen in most of the current mags.

[stevekale]

Originally Posted by arkle

Take a look at the current ad's running for "The Essential Fly" as seen in most of the current mags.

The Blank Buster? They work but they're a bit more than a plain hook. A tied some up and had some success last weekend. I'm not happy with the Kamasan B100 hooks though. One that was hit by a good sized fished simply straightened after the fish took 3 good runs!

[Mostyn]

Originally Posted by fossil-fish

Why bother?

Firstly for the absolute pleasure you derive from tying flies. Almost equal to fishing itself.

Secondly, for the added pleasure and satisfaction you get from catching a fish on a pattern you have tied yourself.

Thirdly, for the satisfaction from making the capture a complete experience in terms of identifying the trout's food and being able to present it in an acceptable way. You know the fish will probably take a bead on a hook, or an orange blob, but you also know that it was feeding on black buzzers.

Worth all the bother in my opinion.

Well Said!

I agree wholeheartedly! - Well worth the effort, for the pleasure one gets in knowing you've created an artificial likeness, that will capture your quarrie, it's self satisfying, and a wholly enjoyable experience!