Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:49:03 GMT

i have now found i can bend the eye up,or down for that matter,on these 33600s,without weakening the hook too much.

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:07:26 GMT

TimJ wrote:
What hooks do you all like for your larger wet flies? I have a bunch of 3399s that seem to work ok but would like some with turned up or even straight eyes too.

Tim

tim,i just bayed 900 mustad 33600 hooks in size 10.they are ringed,or straight eyed and seem like the perfect hook for what you're talking about.

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Fontinalis) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:51:41 GMT

I tye a ton of wet flies and can tell the differance between the 3906 and 3399 imedaitely. Even though they are both sproat bend hooks they have there differances enough to distinguish the 3906 from the 3399. When I was just tying flies here and there I did'nt notice this much and have to agree with you. But since I tye almost every day and have been tying for quite some time, you just know a differance in the hooks. Some models longer, some flimsier, some thicker, some have a more...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:00:40 GMT

i will admit that if you laid a 3399 next to a 3906 ,or a 7948a on a table i would have a hard time telling which was which

on rare occasions for a turned up eye i have splurged and used a salmon hook.thats not the best solution,but it looks nice.

for a straight eye i have baggies of no-name hooks,or mustad kirby sea hooks,wherin a size 14 is about equal to a six.i find i can tye a nice hornberg on the kirby...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Fontinalis) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:13:49 GMT

Hi Tim:

For fishing flies be it large like I fish or smaller I prefer the Mustad 3906 over the 3399. I have had to many hook failures with the 3399 series while fishing. Point of hook breaking or after smashing the barb down on the hook the back end of the hook breaking off. Never had this problem with the 3906 series. Now I do use 3399's but for all the flies I tye for people that want show flies. A nice size 6 and size 8 wet fly works nicely. I do plan on the horizon to...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (TimJ) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:16:10 GMT

What hooks do you all like for your larger wet flies? I have a bunch of 3399s that seem to work ok but would like some with turned up or even straight eyes too.

Tim

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (flyfishing4goldentrout) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:14:50 GMT

Summer time here in high winds and near washout flows the big wets and streamers are the only thing that works, as is a nice 6 or 7wt rod, fish arent so small either, some of the big ones are just looking for a nice big goody to grab.
Richard

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:09:46 GMT

oh yeah,another good thing about large flies is,you can use large tippet!i often use four or six pund test stren or trilene spin fishing line as tippet.

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Cornmuse) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:41:00 GMT

I've got to agree with the general trend of this thread. Larger wet flies are very productive, and always have been. Here are some from the turn of the twentieth century as documented by Mary Orvis Marbury

You can see all the flies up close and get the patterns here -

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Fontinalis) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:06:38 GMT

When it comes to fishing in general I never leave home without my 6 weighg & my 5 weight. The only time I go to a 4 or 3 weight is when I am fishing those small wild trout streams where I know the fish do not get much bigger than 7 inches. I have been surprised once in a blue moon with a 8 inch, but that's about it. To me fishing my wet flies and at times streamers are very comfortable on the 6 weight. Also the 5 weight is good too but a little extra effort has to be put into it. Nice...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:50:06 GMT

so true mdwwhw,for these bigger flies it helps to have at least a six weight!the trend is for 4,3,2,0 weights,but i like my trusty old six weights,and a seven now and then!

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (mdwwhw) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:07:44 GMT

The old saying among warmwater fisherman is essentially "If you want to catch big fish, use big bait". Not universally true, but there is certainly a correlation.

I might also add that there is no reason to leave a good 7 or 8 wt at home simply because everybody else is fishing a four wt. There are many good, venerable rods in that range that are inexpensive because of the line wt.

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Fontinalis) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:38:57 GMT

Hi Shakeylee:

Large wet flies are the way to go for all species of Trout. These flies worked in the older days very well and still do. The trouble is they have been forgotten about and lost in the past like weet flies. With all the new gimmicks and hatch matching articals and midges work the best is all just hype to sale more books, materails and of course flies. If you look at the older days wet flies were commonly sold in size 4 & 6, smaller flies we available but a size...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (shakeylee) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:08:23 GMT

there is a stream near me,notorious for hard to catch wild browns.the norm is size 22 nymphs and nothing larger than a 16 for dries.my not so secret successful flies are sized 6-12,leadwing coachmen,royal coachmen,pennels,soft hackles etc.i say not so secret because i willingly tell people what i use,but they don't believe me.one actually told me you can't catch a brown trout on a royal coachmen,the red is for rainbows,ha!

there is kind of a weird mentality right now,every...

Re: Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (wacokid54) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:35:11 GMT

Here in Colorado, there are a lot of fishermen that consider anything bigger than a 14 a streamer! Many fishermen here learned to flyfish in tailwaters, drifting #20 and smaller nymphs below an indicator. They catch a ton of big fish that way! I still mentally struggle with the concept of #8 wet flies myself. But, since I have the hooks and materials and soft action flexible glass rods, I am going to give this "larger" wet fly deal a try this year.

Thanks for the...

Fishing Wet Flies in size 6 & 8

feeds@yuku.com (Fontinalis) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:57:50 GMT

Many times I here some one say why in your right mind would you fish a size 6 or a size 8 wet fly, followed by the line "Trout are going to take a fly that big". Well first off let's understand that wet flies in their hay days were sold in shops and in catalogues in size 4 - 14. It was very typical that anglers bought and fished with wet flies in size 6 & 8 as a standard size. Now when I...