Sweet ! Thanks very much !
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I searched on Google but could not fins anything on the RAB, what is it supposed to imitate?
I'm speaking under correction here but I think its a very suggestive pattern. Doesn't really imitate anything as far as I know, but is a absolute must if you fishing any of the cape streams! or at least thats what my mates in stellies tell me.
Hope my rather poor explanaion helps!?
Rob
Very good explanation,u beat me to it.Mario mentioned something about it this week I value his opinion wrt streams and what not.Having said that it can be taken as Mayflies,Craneflies and Diptera.
A pattern designed by Tony Biggs I think and it originates out of the Cape Streams.
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A RAB is a good cranefly and Cape Dobsonfly imitation. A couple of years ago I was fishing the Holsloot when some dobsonflies started hatching. They looked exactly like a RAB as they fluttered weakly across the water. Besides that, it's a big juicy fly that fish will often move a large distance to eat.
“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you” ― Lemmy Kilmister
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Paradise = A 3wt Rod & a fist full of someone else's #32 parachutes
I have a few issues with the RAB. admitedly, I hardly ever fish it, so I am opening myself up to a right slagging (what's new)
Sure it is supposed to be an awesome fly, and thats the problem. I get the impression that it's one of those WTF flies, where in certain conditions it simply is deadly, but only in certain conditions. It's something like "help I can't match the hatch, so let's try a RAB" bang! fish on "Wow, I've cracked the code, what an awesomew angler am I"
How many people ever knew that it is supposed to imitate the crane fly? I certainly didn't. I still thing it's cheating.
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