- kuipie - 08-07-2006
yes I am, born and bred. Next time I am out there, I will be sure to bring the kit with me and tie you a couple. Really worth trying.
- pomerob - 08-07-2006
I'll make sure I have plenty cold ones in the fridge
- robdog - 08-08-2006
A tying clinic, sounds like fun!
- kuipie - 08-08-2006
Robdog, you are hereby invited to join the clinic.
- robdog - 08-13-2006
Thank you, I will be there
- pomerob - 08-14-2006
This sounds like fun, can I be the judge? I will just bring a box of off the shelf flies and we can compare. :lol:
- kuipie - 08-14-2006
While off the shelf flies work, the enjoyment of catching a fish on a fly you have made yourself is priceless. Each to his own, I suppose!
- pomerob - 08-14-2006
Catching fish is my passion, I dont see anyone trying to carve up a bit of balsa wood to make their own cranks emm I think that would be easier than tying flies. I also enjoy my boat but that don't mean I can build one or would even enjoy trying.
As you say each to his own
- kuipie - 08-14-2006
Someone, at sometime, somewhere, must have carved up his own piece of balsa wood to make himself a crank.....fishing and fly fishing (including fly tying) is my passion. :lol:
- robdog - 08-18-2006
I have carved out several poppers from pine, one even got painted and thrown into the dam on the end of my line :lol:
- kuipie - 08-18-2006
Hey Robdog,
What a good idea, did they actually work? And if so, what did you catch?
- robdog - 08-18-2006
I only caught 1 small bass on my homemade popper, and have lost it when we moved house (or someone took it)
- kuipie - 08-18-2006
Maybe we should start a course on these things, between your poppers and my flies...who knows!!! :wink:
- robdog - 08-18-2006
The biggest hassle with the popper was finding screw in eyes small enough, to hold the hooks to the lure.
- dominicleckie - 08-19-2011
Great idea, pity I'm living so far away. Perhaps when we are in SA again, it is worth contacting you to arrange something like this.
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