fly fishing/plug fishing

[john/r]

hi i dont know if you can do a poll on nesa but just out of curiosity i was wundering how many people are actualy interested in or want to do fly fishing / plug casting while they are sea fishing

[mark]

I do both regularly in the summer. In fact I've all but given up bait fishing from the shore through the summer months apart from the odd bit off flattie bashing

[Vamp]

Ive all ways fancied fishing turness with the fly,instead of the red gills and stuff like ive done in the past,somtimes when ive been up there theres a old boy who does the fly for the bass and does well too.
Think it would be a good bit of sport,enjoyable and deff different.

[john/r]

fancied fly fishing for pollack over mull area a little but not on our coast

[Charlie_Thompson]

I'm up for it, I bet it could be fun from a kayak when the mackerel are about.

Or dawn off Roker pier in summer might work

[paulthespark]

I would be interested , it,s certainly a different slant on our sport but i have,t got a clue how to go about it. for example what type of line ,flies.conditions and species do you target .advice would be welcome the eternal optomist

[Charlie_Thompson]

There's more than a few uk sal****er fly fishing forums about it's very popular and massive in the US. From the shore I'd imagine the challenges up here would include -

Getting a line out / casting distance
Getting a fly down
Wind (It's hard to fart and cast at the same time )

and mild abuse

I'd imagine just about owt would work as a fly if you're stripping it back


Edit - wow if you type water if turns into stars I think

Edit Aha - I typed the words salt and water together and in the middle of that word is the word **** mad or what

[mark]

as far as fly fishing is concerned, don't be conned by thinking you need specialist sal****er gear.

any fly rod 9 foot plus will do, if it can handle heavier lines so much the better.

as for lines, go for cheap as chips fast sinker millend lines usually can be had for less than a fiver. The lines get wrecked quickly, especially if fishing from the rocks, so expensive lines are a waste of beer money IMHO

as for leader, I've tried expensive ultra flourocarbon and tried cheapo mono, can't see that it makes much difference in the sea, so now I use 5lb to 8lb mono

as for flies, don't buy any, make yer own. First time I thought I'd have a bash, I just cut individual hooks from sets of hokkais, mackie feathers, dalylights even, and nipped a little bit of shot on the leader next to the hook to get it down

if you want to progress to 'proper' sal****er flies, they're a doodle to make, even if you've never tied a thing in your life, mainly cos they're big, so not as fiddly, and makeral, pollack and coalies aren't as sniffy about presentation as trout

If your already a fluff chucker, some of the big streamers you'd use on the reservoirs work well

bit limiting for marks round here though, the piers are a bit too high, even if you can put a full 50yard fly line out, by the time its on the water and sank a bit its back at your feet almost. the rocks up at dunstaborough castle/cullernose are probably as good a mark as any in these parts

[Charlie_Thompson]

Does the sal****er not eat your gear though mark?

[Charlie_Thompson]

I'd love to see someone false casting and thwicking a heavy fly line backwards and forwards across the width of Roker Pier, whistling 3" Brass tube flies past people's earholes whilst the air is wick with feathers, 6 oz weights and the sounds of The New Monkey - Come on

[mark]

Does the sal****er not eat your gear though mark?

cheapo graphite/plakker reel, rod seems immune