Vicky should be making bows and stuff for the wedding invitations and working on their wording but is playing Mariokart Wii! I should be putting together the new cot bed and clearing up Bramble's (black lab if you remember) area of the garden but am writing this instead.
Why is it that when we are supposed to be doing a specific task, we so often have an idea about something else there is to do, the actioning of which becomes a "reason" why we haven't had time to do the original job? It's not as if making bows from ribbons or constructing a flat-pack cot are arduous tasks, and both are things that might in turn be used as convenient reasons not to do far more unpleasant things that might crop up.
The mess in the garden is a completely different matter of course and my reluctance to undertake it's clearing must surely be understandable!?
This strange situation can and frequently does occur even when one is doing something as enjoyable as fishing. I cannot count the amount of times that I have sat with others, tarrying over an extra sausage at breakfast or another slurp of sloe-gin in the hut at lunchtime, whilst prolonging a conversation or just finishing a chapter of my book, when I know that, if justice is to be done to the pool and enough time is to be available to fish the others on the beat, I should be out there doing it, not gassing and munching and slurping and finishing.
It's weird............... Theories anyone? Oh I was forgetting that nobody reads this. Oh well.
Anyway, I have tied a couple more flies. I would like to have a day or two this spring - it being the most wonderful of seasons - on a "big" river and so, in anticipation, I have knocked up some big patterns to fish deeply and at a very slow speed in the cold water. I usually favour the size of the fly being dictated by the length of the dressing and so by using a very long wing on a small hook one is able to present a big fly in warm water near the surface or, by changing leader and or line, the same fly at a variety of depths. I find too that the waddington shank type of assembly fishes a lot better off of a fast sinking line as it rarely sinks beneath the level that said line is fishing at. Indeed if you want to fish water above the level that the line is fishing you can by changing to a lighter fly (or even nylon tube) and lengthening the leader. Copper tubes have their place, especially in sizes up to 1.5 - 2", and when partnered with a floating or intermediate line. They tend to be quite hard to cast without disturbance though and they tend to unbalance a cast and so add to difficulties caused by an adverse wind. This is all only what I find. Others obviously, and probably quite rightly, think differently.
These are good old(ish) fashioned clonkers, to be fished on the end of a fast sinking line and the shortest of leaders. The snag here of course, is that I no longer have a fast or even medium sinking line - but that is easily remedied, I'll go and buy one.........unless, of course, a "reason" comes along why I don't.
Anyway, I have tied a couple more flies. I would like to have a day or two this spring - it being the most wonderful of seasons - on a "big" river and so, in anticipation, I have knocked up some big patterns to fish deeply and at a very slow speed in the cold water. I usually favour the size of the fly being dictated by the length of the dressing and so by using a very long wing on a small hook one is able to present a big fly in warm water near the surface or, by changing leader and or line, the same fly at a variety of depths. I find too that the waddington shank type of assembly fishes a lot better off of a fast sinking line as it rarely sinks beneath the level that said line is fishing at. Indeed if you want to fish water above the level that the line is fishing you can by changing to a lighter fly (or even nylon tube) and lengthening the leader. Copper tubes have their place, especially in sizes up to 1.5 - 2", and when partnered with a floating or intermediate line. They tend to be quite hard to cast without disturbance though and they tend to unbalance a cast and so add to difficulties caused by an adverse wind. This is all only what I find. Others obviously, and probably quite rightly, think differently.
These are good old(ish) fashioned clonkers, to be fished on the end of a fast sinking line and the shortest of leaders. The snag here of course, is that I no longer have a fast or even medium sinking line - but that is easily remedied, I'll go and buy one.........unless, of course, a "reason" comes along why I don't.
Look at the size of that! Nice.
