Joe,
Yes, the Purple Haze is my go-to fly up in the Pacific NW. It seems to draw more strikes than other similar flies such as a Parachute Adams. Then again, I think there is a lot to say for having confidence in a particular pattern.
There is something with the color that triggers the trout. Has to do with how the UV light reflects off of that color in the stream. Read an article on it long ago but can't locate the article.
BTW - most of the "trout" I've caught have been by drifting whole shrimp or shrimp patterns on the outgoing tide in 10-15' of water in GA/SC low country tidal creeks, with no additional weight.
The GOP big tent now is the size of a pup tent, its floor splattered with guano.
Since there are few New Mexican folks here, I guess its safe to reveal an effective nymph: a simple hare's ear tied on a small jig hook w/ a slotted tungsten bead. It sinks very fast and rides hook up. A few national team members are tying different colors on the same hook/bead setup; the Blowtorch, Perdigon and Iron Lotus.
BTW - most of the "trout" I've caught have been by drifting whole shrimp or shrimp patterns on the outgoing tide in 10-15' of water in GA/SC low country tidal creeks, with no additional weight.
That's best. I was just showing off for the board.
I don't go offshore anymore. Last time I went I told my pa in law, I ain't lost nothing out there and won't ever be back.
River mouths around marsh grass and oyster beds, drifting a live shrimp... That's where it's at.
'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan
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Can you post a pic of The Sherbish Nymph?
Thanks.
Sure, if I can find one.
Powerbait cost less.
There is something with the color that triggers the trout. Has to do with how the UV light reflects off of that color in the stream. Read an article on it long ago but can't locate the article.
Is that an XP?
And my specialized variant, the double tungsten:
You of all people know that fly is the one that gets it done.
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Up here we calls their cousins weakfish.
https://www.google.com/search?q=weakfish&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
BTW - most of the "trout" I've caught have been by drifting whole shrimp or shrimp patterns on the outgoing tide in 10-15' of water in GA/SC low country tidal creeks, with no additional weight.
I don't go offshore anymore. Last time I went I told my pa in law, I ain't lost nothing out there and won't ever be back.
River mouths around marsh grass and oyster beds, drifting a live shrimp... That's where it's at.
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Yes. For Redfish as well. There are a few creeks near Savannah and Beaufort, SC that I can access and fish from the banks.
That vise looks like a civil war relic.
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That is the very vise that General Sherman used to put John B. Bell's balls into.
Custer died because of this vise..
Mike
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