Question for Fishing Guys

[DaveB]

Without Looking it up, who knows who D. F. Thompson is?

 

[scn]

Thompson fly vise and creator of the Doll Fly?

 

[DaveB]

SCN is the winner. Thompson is credited with creating a vise that normal people could afford and use to create their own fly's.

 

[scn]

A Thompson vise was my first "good" vise. It replaced the very basic vise that came in the fly tying kit I got one Christmas. That dates back to the mid-sixties. I tied on it for many years until I got more serious about the fly tying a few years ago and broke down and got a Renzetti.

It tied a bunch of crappie and rockfish jigs and my first trout flies, and helped me catch a bunch of fish in ETN.

 

[rsimms]

Good for scn... should have known he would be "first in."

For the record, I didn't know.

Also for the record, asking questions about fly fishing stuff doesn't necessarily equate for most "Fishing Guys."

Fly fishermen are a breed of their own. :grin: :whistle:

 

[I_Am_Canadian_Eh]

I have respect for guys who fly fish that is something of its own breed. Amazes me guys can wrap them flys so easy. I'd probably wrap my finger around the vice.

 

[DaveB]

What I found is that so long as the hook was sharp almost anything you glued or tied to the hook could catch fish. Some of my contraptions look awful-hair or feathers going everywhere & big knots of wrap.


I am trying to think of that fly fishing guy's name, he hung around Bud&Marys, kinda famous, used to catch bonefish ("anyone can catch a bonefish on spinning tackle") and tarpon on split bamboo rods. I was catching snapper and he made fun of me, using a spinner. So we had a contest-me using cut squid and mullet, him using artificials, fly rod vs Mitchell 300. This was back in 1966-67.

He beat me badly. But I did get to keep his fish.

 

[Dbllunger]

�Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn�t. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world�s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.�

― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

 

[Mike Belt]

I've been standing mid-river on the White River in mid January using a fly rod while getting pelted with snow. I didn't catch much and it was cold but absolutely beautiful. I'm better with a popping bug in the spring over break beds.

 

[shorefisherman]

when i was young ive seen people catch big pacific bonitos off of a pier in so. california with feather lures, just a hook and a feather....which now ive learned in flyfishing comm. its called a streamer. after loosing multiple of store bought flys to these hard fighting fish, ive decided to make my own...since my neighbor had homing pigeons, i made my own fly using a long shank hook and few pigeon feathers tied with a fishing line. the next day when i caught bunch of them little tunas hittin my homemade flys on topwater, it was very satisfying.

...but i was using spin tackle.

 

[Spurhunter]

Also for the record, asking questions about fly fishing stuff doesn't necessarily equate for most "Fishing Guys."

Fly fishermen are a breed of their own. :grin: :whistle:

Absolutely!

 

[Treestand Troubadour]

I've tied some ugly flies in my day that flat wore out the trout, some of them mighta come unraveled after one fish but its still fun