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Fishin classic fer da mornin

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Sat down this afternoon and very quickly whipped up this crude classic. The Green Highlander. Some love it, some hate it. Me ? I'm a lover. It's the first classic fly that i landed a great lakes chinook on. Green, particularily chartreuse, is what our local fish prefer. Nothing pretty here to look at, just a working fly. Excited to bury it in a log in da am :eek: cheers
 

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Sat down this afternoon and very quickly whipped up this crude classic. The Green Highlander. Some love it, some hate it. Me ? I'm a lover. It's the first classic fly that i landed a great lakes chinook on. Green, particularily chartreuse, is what our local fish prefer. Nothing pretty here to look at, just a working fly. Excited to bury it in a log in da am <img src="http://www.speypages.com/speyclave/images/smilies/eek.gif" border="0" alt="" title="EEK!" class="inlineimg" /> cheers
Dude! I know what I want for Christmas
 
#12 ·
Always nice flies Matt, the bury in a log thing...… I used to fish classic patterns for kings here, about ten years ago I was at a familiar bend on a familiar river. There were some real monsters sloshing around straight across the river from where I had parked the boat. I don't know how many but a good bunch and they were tailing and rolling like crazy.

That was ten years ago maybe longer, I don't fall for that stuff anymore.

Anyway the river was high with runoff and you had to cast all the way across to them.

I didn't mention that the fish were right up against a pile of highwater cottonwood and spruce logs that had came into the bend on the spring peak water and are a permanent fixture on that bend pool did I :D

So there we were, the fish having fun doing what fish do and me wanting to catch one and they were big bright fish...…

Five, that's (5) flies, all among the best I could muster with what skills I have and I hung five in a row into the sweepers and logs jammed up against that far bank! After realizing that I had just lost somewhere around ten man hours of fly tying work or more and never had a chance at a fish I stopped myself.

You live and learn I guess and I don't chase rollers anymore. I told myself that day that when the water dropped I would go back, I would run right up against that logjam and I would get my flies back. I went back in July and the water was down and I ran right up against that jam and I tied off to a limb. The water was clear and at least 1 1/2 foot lower and guess what? There wasn't a single one of those 5 flies buried in those logs that I could find and I looked close and hard :Eyecrazy:

Always remember, if you hit a snag, move!
 
#15 ·
I am totally with Aldo - and perhaps Hardyreels - I have tied and fished classics; they work, but if the fear of losing a fly prevents you from fishing a fishy-looking spot, it isn't much use. Your fly is very good and if you fish it with confidence wherever you think the fish are, it will be a great fly. There really is something special about seeing your well-tied fly embedded in the corner of the fish's mouth. Good luck.
 
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That's funny as hell Ard! This will warm your heart! My buddy and I are in the Big Manistee. He's down from me,and I can hear the sounds of unhappiness as he walks to the bank. I hollered to him,he had just lost the third fly in a row. He was going to the "penalty box" to regroup. I chuckled,and tried to stop myself,but I couldn't do it. I hollered back,"I hadn't lost a fly in 3 days!" WELL,you know what happened next. WITHOUT MOVING,I lost 5 flies in a row...I didn't even get to cast the first one,and it was gone! I reeled up,walked down to him,and we sat on a log while our karma regrouped.
 
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