What's your best fly?

Post by **skunkaroo** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:37 pm

*Chuckle*

Great little story, Mike. I might have to retell it over drinks at my local hangout.

Aaron

Post by **letumgo** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:19 pm

Does it have to be a sheep? Would any other farm animals do?

(I'm just kidding)

Thanks for the story Mike. I got a good laugh out of it.

Mike Connor · Post by **Mike Connor** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:36 pm

letumgo wrote:Does it have to be a sheep? Would any other farm animals do?

(I'm just kidding)

Thanks for the story Mike. I got a good laugh out of it.

Well, a sheep was indeed recommended in the original book, ( I should still have it somewhere, I will see if I can find it, not the sheep, the book!). All I can say to that is I am glad he did not recommend a cow, and Alf had found a dead one in the river. Trying to get the beast up a tree overhanging the river sounds like even less fun than getting a sheep up there!

Some poachers and even quite reputable anglers used chickens and various entrails in a lightly woven sack hung in a tree to "bait a swim". This does actually work quite well in warm weather but it's a smelly business, and of course you need to use maggots as bait, although sometimes worms will work better, even though the swim is being baited with a steady trickle of maggots. On occasion pieces of cooked spaghetti ( al dente) will also work so you don't have to handle maggots. Dyeing the maggots pink, ( or the spaghetti) also often works even better.

TL
MC

Post by **letumgo** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:49 pm

Mike - you understood my humor perfectly. I had visions of getting a cow or horse into the tree (scary, but oddly funny).

Mike Connor · Post by **Mike Connor** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:29 pm

Indeed some things are oddly funny.

Now you know why poachers often look sheepish and cowed, they have chickened out of the horsing around!

Do you happen to know why elephants paint their toenails red? It's so they can hide in cherry trees.

No of course you have never seen an elephant in a cherry tree, it obviously works!

So back on topic. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't, you get down from a duck.

TL
MC

Post by **daringduffer** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:23 am

Re: What's your best fly?

Postby Mike Connor » 11 Oct 2011, 20:22
OK, but it's not my favourite fly!

I bet it's your favourite for that hatch!! Thank you for elaborating - just what I hoped for. I usually encounter a caddis

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