'Yobs with blobs'

[pieterkriel]

The facts is this, blobs work, but like any other fly/lure out there not always. To film me on a day that I use a blob and on that day in that circumstances it works amazingly well, and then publish that footage as this is how effective a blob is, is pretty silly.

I fish competatively, and in competition you do everything possible to find what works well quickly, and then replicate too get as much fish as possible. It is not however to say that on every piece of water you tie on a blob and the fish comes along. Also I have found that on certain days casting a blob can even be detrimental to your fishing, chasing spooky fish away.

Further to all I said, when I do fish a blob it is followed by natural imitative patterns, and guess which flies most fish goes for, not the blob believe me. Attractor fishing have been for years been the subject for debated in the UK, why? Because their huge impoundments gets stocked heavily in a put and take fashion, what about the Whiskey fly, is that not a attractor?

Boobies is mostly atractor patterns, this to me is a silly debate all together.

Small note on competative FF, if you are only a blob weilding competative angler, you won't be very competative always...

[Jasper]

VERY interesting!! .. this could explain the success of EGG FLIES with a FAST RETRIEVE , which I witnessed recently at Dullstroom... which to mne saeems a tad unnatural!!

[Chris Shelton]

To hell with the BLOB, try the SNOG!
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[Jasper]

To hell with the BLOB, try the SNOG!
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I already HAVE!!!

[flybum]

Perhaps we should start off by defining what a true fly fisherman is again. The clue is in the name! FLY fisherman!!

now you're digging yourself a hole

fishing the blob to its true potencial takes skill -belief it or hot . the blob is just part of a highly specialised tactic- refered to as pulling.
i consider myself an imitative angler but would love to be able to pull like the top match anglers.
i think all those english anglers complaining are either to old to pull or just sour about the amount of fish the youngsters a boating. they realy shouldn't be cause thats the only tactic the newer anglers know - so they come seriously short on the dry and the nypmph. john horsey(i think) x-captain of the english team wrote this comment recently. he should know - the year he captained his team at the worlds held in england on the resevoirs they got beaten solidly by the french and another team 'cause they decided to pull
while the frenchies nymphed. he got strung up for that- i think especially 'cause it was the french.

[Chris Shelton]

In defense of the blob, I'll say this. Last weekend Andre was pretty successful with this type of fly on a stillwater that we fished together, but he was fishing it on a dead slow retrieve! My thinking tells me that fished this way, the fly was certainly resembling possibly a variety of food forms, whether that be a cluster of tubifex, or eggs, or a bit of drifting algae. For this reason, I will not write the fly off as unfair game. I just need a reason to fish it, that's all, and any of the above reasons would work for me. On a faster retrieve, I would like to think that I am fishing a minnow immitation...this makes it more than acceptable in my book.

[Jasper]

In defense of the blob, I'll say this. Last weekend Andre was pretty successful with this type of fly on a stillwater that we fished together, but he was fishing it on a dead slow retrieve! My thinking tells me that fished this way, the fly was certainly resembling possibly a variety of food forms, whether that be a cluster of tubifex, or eggs, or a bit of drifting algae. For this reason, I will not write the fly off as unfair game. I just need a reason to fish it, that's all, and any of the above reasons would work for me. On a faster retrieve, I would like to think that I am fishing a minnow immitation...this makes it more than acceptable in my book.

or a fast-swimming epol pellet!!!!

[Chris Shelton]

now you're digging yourself a hole

fishing the blob to its true potencial takes skill -belief it or hot . the blob is just part of a highly specialised tactic- refered to as pulling.
i consider myself an imitative angler but would love to be able to pull like the top match anglers.
i think all those english anglers complaining are either to old to pull or just sour about the amount of fish the youngsters a boating. they realy shouldn't be cause thats the only tactic the newer anglers know - so they come seriously short on the dry and the nypmph. john horsey(i think) x-captain of the english team wrote this comment recently. he should know - the year he captained his team at the worlds held in england on the resevoirs they got beaten solidly by the french and another team 'cause they decided to pull
while the frenchies nymphed. he got strung up for that- i think especially 'cause it was the french.

I think that wankers (pullers) should compete against other wankers, and true fly fisherman should fish with other true fly fisherman...klaar!

[Umhlangarox]

How many fly fisherman fish with only immitative/natural paterns?

wouldnt think there would be too many!

[Chris Shelton]

How many fly fisherman fish with only immitative/natural paterns?

wouldnt think there would be too many!

Most flies that work are representative of something known to a trout, so all fly fishermen are basically fishing immitative patterns, whether they themselves recognize it as such or not. As a fly fishermen in the true traditional sense, I try to make it my business to work out what my fly represents. I at least like to know what I am trying to immitate, so that I know how to fish it. I cannot believe that this is of so little importance so many of you. You may as well throw everything that flyfishing stands for, the traditions, where it began, how it evolved, the whole essence of what it is about if you these things dont matter in the least to you. That is fine if you so choose, but please, go and define yourself as something else rather.....but dont call yourself a fly fisherman!