Flavoured flies & Select Techniques

[redhumpy]

So last night when I got home buurman invited me for a garage dop in order to discuss the details of a planned Elgro trip.

See, buurman hails from the East Rand, got a big bakkie, big biceps and big carp boxes. So when buurman moved to the East of Pretoria I took it upon myself to educate him in the fine art of flyfishing and swopping Klippies for Johny. So the Elgro trip is going to be buurman's first flyfishing experience and I decided on this venue as I personally think it is the absolute best venue for a complete novice.

Anyways as we were discussing the trip buurman's thoughts started to wander and he ended up talking boilies, boms and tiger nuts. I soon realised that buurman will not understand the feeling of hooking into your first sizer yellow untill he has experienced it first hand and so decided to humour him and join in on the carp discussion (I did mention something about brown bread, an egg and custard powder.)

So out came the massive boxes with dips, stuff that glows, tiger nuts (Which I still don't know how they harvest) and various suspicious looking powders. As I stared blankly at the now 6 open boxes infront of me I noticed something that caught my attention - Dip #143 (The range tops 200). Dip #143 read (on the piece of paper stuck to the inside of the box lid) "PEPPERMINT".

mmm Peppermint. I have an idea. I remember as a laaitie catching a carp at Harties that had no eyes but was in very healthy condition. (fsh - fish without an "I"). So that meant that these fish can smell really really well and so it probably makes sense for the papswaaiers to have two billion dips, but it was the PEPPERMINT I was interested in.

So I gooied the Whiskey quickly down my throat, made some excuse that involved my kids and hurried home. Once home I headed straight for the bathroom cabinet, grabbed the dental floss (Nice Peppermint flavour) and started tying Carp Fritzes. Now instead of using thread to dress my hook, yep I used the dental floss.

After tying a few I packed them in my specially marked "Secret weapon Flybox" right next to my Marmite impregnated GRHE's.

[rory]

Bwahahahaha!!! No berkley powerbait scented caddis flies?

[Troep]

Dit grens aan flyfishing "korrupsie"....

hahahahah

[Jason]

Let us know how it works, sounds interesting, boarderline......but interesting.

[Surly Ghillie]

reminds me of a story I wrote ~ "Yellow-bellied Bess", about fishing for eel with flies tied from fresh roadkill ; specifically Zorilla, or African Skunk... mmmmmmm. people still slide up to me and whisper surreptitously 'that eel story... is it true?'

[Morne]

reminds me of a story I wrote ~ "Yellow-bellied Bess", about fishing for eel with flies tied from fresh roadkill ; specifically Zorilla, or African Skunk... mmmmmmm. people still slide up to me and whisper surreptitously 'that eel story... is it true?'

I remember reading that. So is it true?

[nkula_nkula]

reminds me of a story I wrote ~ "Yellow-bellied Bess", about fishing for eel with flies tied from fresh roadkill ; specifically Zorilla, or African Skunk... mmmmmmm. people still slide up to me and whisper surreptitously 'that eel story... is it true?'

Is it true????? Some of the WC rivers have eels. Seen one hooked on a woolly bugger, the thing went awol and stuffed my fishing buddy up solid. They powerful fish!

[turando101]

...on a similar thread I heard about a person on the Waterfall Onder that would arrive on the river with a packet of bacon.....stab the packet a couple of times; stick it under a rock and then walk a hundred yards down stream and fish from there UP-stream back to "THE ROCK"!
Aparently by the time he got back to the starting point his flies where working very well!!

[Herman Jooste]

For Troooot and Yellows, MARMITE rules.
For Carp Garlic thread soaked in Condensed milk

[chris williams]

Remind me never to come round to your house for a braai - not that I'd crack an invite!