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 Author Name: Mike Andreasen and Dennis Brakke
Title: PRODUCTIVE STILLWATER FLIES
Type: BOOK
Publisher: ALAMI PUBLICATIONS
Seller ID: 1294219
84 proven-effective, tested patterns for lakes. Details on structure & light, sonar devices, & the debate on bright gaudy vs. natural flies. Patterns resemble the natural foods that fish key on. 84 color plates; 6x9 inches, 96 pgs.
'EXCERPT from the Foreward
When Effective Lake Flies was written in 1990 most new lake flies were variations on the theme of the Carey Special.
What a difference a few years can make. Since then there has been a tremendous increase in the use of bright flashy synthetic materials including beads and various kinds of eyes. It seems also that the majority of new fly patterns are versions of the Wooly Bugger. Many of these new patterns are very productive. Others are only marginally useful and then mostly in specialized situations. Still, to look at some fly boxes it is getting harder to see the difference between the lures in the spin fisherman's tackle box and the fly angler's assortment of flies.
We are still of the belief that even though these bright gaudy flies will and do catch fish, in the long run the angler will do better to think in terms of imitating or suggesting the look of the natural foods that fish key on. You will find the majority of the patterns in this volume are suggestive or impressionistic. A few are certainly attracters but are included because they have proven consistenly productive.
Proving to our own satisfaction that all the patterns included in this volume are truly effective was our biggest challenge. The only way to do so was to fish all of them ourselves. It would have been easy to do a book with samples of all the flies that various people sent to us and listing their opinions about them. The biggest problem with doing so is many of the average angler's great days would be considered less that such by others. We feel we have been able to prove the usefulness of every pattern listed. It doesn't mean they have all become our favorites or they have replaced the patterns from the first book. Some of them in fact become "go to" patterns for us, but we still have about ten we always consider first when we start the day. That list includes some from this volume. When the list isn't productive, we turn to others. Often times the weather conditions, color of the water during those conditions, time of day, seasonal angles of the Sun, as well as other factors make some flies produce much better that others. We've tried to list those conditions and reasons to help you make similar decisions when confronted with a like situation.
The second big change affecting successful fishing since the first book was the introduction of relatively cheap sonar devises that fit onto float tubes and pontoon boats. One of the chapters in the first book explained how we approached new lakes. The techniques that we wrote of then are no longer necessary. Now we can instantly locate the depths of the various parts of the lake and the fish related structures it holds through the use of our sonar devises. A good devise like this can save you about five years in learning time on how to read the waters of a lake or pond.
One of the easiest to set up and use are those made by the Bottom Line Company under the trade names of "Fishin' Buddy."
We've found it to be very useful if you use it to show the bottom structure and depth and to ascertain the depths that fish are settled in at. Don't use it to find fish for, but rather to determine what line you should be using to reach those depths with the flies you've chosen to fish with. It will amaze you the first time you use one and can see what the bottom is really like and how deep the water really is. Many times we've had guys we've been fishing with in murky water think they were in water 10 to 15 feet deep when in one case it was less than 5 feet. Another time a friend thought he was in 8 to 10 feet when he was in water over 40 feet deep. It is well worth the investment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknoledgements
Dedication
Forward
Part One - A Brief Overview
Structure and Light
Observations
Part Two - Fly Patterns
Selected Bibliography
Index of Flies
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