The fly of the month for Fly Fish Ohio is the Flatwing Shiner, an adaptation of Ken Abrames killer striper flies.
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You're going to like this one!
Joe C.
You're going to like this one!
Joe C.
The Flatwing Shiner - Ken Abrames meets fresh water
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 Cornmuse |
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Posts: 299 07/14/07 15:08:29 Registered Member |
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JeffSod |
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Posts: 844 07/14/07 18:59:35 Registered Member |
I pretty much learned to fly fish in the salt unlike most who seem to learn freshwater fly first. Ken Abrames book Striper Moon was instrumental in my education of catching stripers on the fly. I visited and fished many of the places he refers to in that book including the backwaters of Dighton Massachusettes he refered to in one photo. I have done very well with his patterns over the years and always carry Rhody Flatwings and Rays flies in my saltwater boxes. Nice to see the pattern used in freshwater. The sea trout of florida love olive flatwings by the way
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Cornmuse |
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Posts: 299 07/15/07 04:40:22 Registered Member |
Jeff
You and me both. I took my first striper on a fly from the beach near Eel River in Plymouth back in 1974. I took my first trout from the salt, too. I didn't even have a freshwater fly rod until a year and a half after I started fly fishing! Joe |
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Wee Hooker |
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Posts: 440 08/23/07 12:25:22
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I have found the flatwing style of tying to adapt well to allot of favorite salt and warmwater patterns. Lots of lifelike action and less fouling. Any streamer with a hackle or bucktail wing/tail is a candidate for this "upgrade" IMHO.
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