Hi All,
I am one of six Brits coming out to to the US at the beginnining of June for two weeks. Fishing the Chatham area. We will be fishing one day from a boat and the rest on the flats and shore. Do not know details of any guides that have been arranged. Searching the forum I came up with the deep eel or real eel or whatever as a very good sand eel imitation. Now I have a problem. The pictures and postings are not very clear so i would be obliged if you could help me. It looks like a clouser with a twist and good attention to detail, is the tail tied in at the bend and then wrapped up the shank as far as the eye? Any body covering would then be wrapped over this. Are all the other materials tied in front of the eye and then collected with a few wraps behind the eye? How do you relate eye size and hook size to length of fly? Seems important that this fly does not allow the weight of eye to just turn this fly in to a jig. Position of the eye would seem important so that the fly swims correctly or do I have that all wrong. I would have to order all my materials from the US because there is not everything I will need is stocked in the UK. A list of materials and colours to tie a bunch of flies up would be great. I would be tying these from 3 inches to 8 inches is that about right? And what colour is root beer? never ever seen any! What other flys will be good to have considering most of our fishing will be from the shore. I do not want to steal any of your secret patterns and any I make will for my use only or given to others. Any help you can offer here would be most welcome.
Regards
Alan
I am one of six Brits coming out to to the US at the beginnining of June for two weeks. Fishing the Chatham area. We will be fishing one day from a boat and the rest on the flats and shore. Do not know details of any guides that have been arranged. Searching the forum I came up with the deep eel or real eel or whatever as a very good sand eel imitation. Now I have a problem. The pictures and postings are not very clear so i would be obliged if you could help me. It looks like a clouser with a twist and good attention to detail, is the tail tied in at the bend and then wrapped up the shank as far as the eye? Any body covering would then be wrapped over this. Are all the other materials tied in front of the eye and then collected with a few wraps behind the eye? How do you relate eye size and hook size to length of fly? Seems important that this fly does not allow the weight of eye to just turn this fly in to a jig. Position of the eye would seem important so that the fly swims correctly or do I have that all wrong. I would have to order all my materials from the US because there is not everything I will need is stocked in the UK. A list of materials and colours to tie a bunch of flies up would be great. I would be tying these from 3 inches to 8 inches is that about right? And what colour is root beer? never ever seen any! What other flys will be good to have considering most of our fishing will be from the shore. I do not want to steal any of your secret patterns and any I make will for my use only or given to others. Any help you can offer here would be most welcome.
Regards
Alan