Posts tagged “flies

BLOGGER’S CONTEST: Win Ditch Fishing Array

Posted on October 21st, 2009

Bloggers sent me a lot of stuff this year in the form of flies, fly boxes, t-shirts, tunes and fly tying scissors.  Michael Gracie, Matt Stansberry, Roughfisher, Keith Barton, Jason Puris, Murdock…all sent something my way. I need to finally give something back. Some of you know I like hitting the ditches when I visit South Florida for the funky payoff. So I’m offering up a Ditch Fishing Kit. This includes: –The Redington Predator 6w rod they sent me to demo for a ditch rod review. –A couple of mutant flies. –A 6th Finger tying scissor from the man who coined the term “Brownlining.” –A long sleeve bass t-shirt from Apex Predator. RULES Bloggers only. If you have a fishing related blog that’s been…

Bombs and Butterfly Peacocks

Posted on February 28th, 2008

The power outage that rippled north from Turkey Point on Tuesday did not slow down the peacock bass fishing. I also got the chance to test a version of the bass fly bendback tied with a Gamakatsu bass hook. I couldn’t get it to work with any weight whatsoever but got it to swim decently with an expoy head and a long length of super hair. Both largemouth and peacock bass hit it, so that was encouraging, but I’d like to see someone with some aptitude at the vise give it a go.

  

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