Fly Fishing

[Werner ZA]

Hello all.Me and my wife, Angi, are keen fly fisherman/woman.I have been fly fishing for over 20 years, Angi took interest about 4 years ago.We are from South Africa and our local waters are a place Dullstroom, in the Mphumalanga Province, around 300km's from our home!Every fishing outing is thus a weekend affair.Since we took up over landing we will be sure to combine with trout fishing.We mostly catch rainbow & golden trout, out of natural streams or dams.We use various flies but my favorites are Black Zulu's or Nymphs.Black Zulu is the name we use being also the name of a local tribe call the Zulu's, not sure what the international name for this fly is.Best time for fishing is in the winter months from April to August, our summers very hot, 35 degrees Celsius plus, and not great for fly fishing.If you ever visit South Africa be sure to contact us we can point you to plenty steams/dams in our beautiful country.Please to make your acquaintance fellow fly,ers.

Above our Rig and a New Years photo of me and Angi.

 

[NV.Recon]

Welcome @Werner ZA nice looking rig, love the storage setup! Would you mind posting a picture of a Black Zulu? I would be interested to see it.

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[FlyJeep]

Welcome Werner and Angi. Great to have fellow fly fisherman in the group. I would love to come to South Africa someday. I'm in Northern California and we're lucky enough to be able to fish all year long. Everything from freshwater to saltwater. My personal favorite is float tubing Stillwater, but I also do a lot of back country hiking for fish.


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[Werner ZA]

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Welcome Werner and Angi. Great to have fellow fly fisherman in the group. I would love to come to South Africa someday. I'm in Northern California and we're lucky enough to be able to fish all year long. Everything from freshwater to saltwater. My personal favorite is float tubing Stillwater, but I also do a lot of back country hiking for fish.


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Thank you very much.I would love to fly all year round, but you can't have everything hahaha.Never done float tubing, seems like fun.Our dams are bit small for that although in a town called Nottingham Road in Kwazulu Natal there are plenty hectare dams.If you ever find your way to SA make contact, beautiful country.Epic for overlanding, great out doors and lots of wildlife.We are truly blessed but so are you guys?

 

[Werner ZA]

Welcome @Werner ZA nice looking rig, love the storage setup! Would you mind posting a picture of a Black Zulu? I would be interested to see it.

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Thank you very much.Proud to say I designed and built the storage system myself, dual function, over landing and for fishing gear.Here is a pic of the Black Zulu, floating fly.Caught 80% of my fish with this one!

 

[NV.Recon]

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Thank you very much.Proud to say I designed and built the storage system myself, dual function, over landing and for fishing gear.Here is a pic of the Black Zulu, floating fly.Caught 80% of my fish with this one!

Nice! That looks pretty similar to what we call a "Wooly Worm" or "Wooly Bugger" except that you said it is a floating fly. Wooly Worms and Wooly Buggers are generally wet flies up here. That's awesome that the majority of your fish are eating on the surface!


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[NV.Recon]

First pic was a Wooly Worm, Wooly Bugger is about the same except the tail.

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[Werner ZA]

First pic was a Wooly Worm, Wooly Bugger is about the same except the tail.View attachment 17986

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Agreed.The Black Zulu is also a bit bigger.Wooly Buggers & Wolly Worms are commonly used here also, but I found the Zulu much more versatile!I only do dry fly fishing purely cause our winter are not so cold and only 4 months long, being the reason I suspect!I also enjoy the art surrounding dry fly fishing, pretty intense hooking on the surface seeing the actual kill!

 

[FlyJeep]

Here is how I go stillwater fishing. This was at an old nuclear plant called Rancho Seco.

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[FlyJeep]

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[FlyJeep]

Here is some fish from this weekend at New Hogan. I've never fished here and was happy with the results.

 

[ClearwaterScott]

@FlyJeep nice looking fish. Still sitting at work looking at those nice fish is making me a little jealous.

Cheers

 

[FlyJeep]

Only 1 little striper tonight at the Port of Sacramento.

 

[NV.Recon]

Nice @FlyJeep I'm hoping to get some pictures to throw in here next week. Fishing is long overdue for me.

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[druff6991]

Well I've got the fly fishing rod, does that count for anything? I work on my cast in my spare time but I was planning on taking it and my raft with me anytime I planned on being near water

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[FlyJeep]

Well I've got the fly fishing rod, does that count for anything? I work on my cast in my spare time but I was planning on taking it and my raft with me anytime I planned on being near water

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The first step is the most important one! Welcome to the addiction.

The tug is the drug!


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[NWNavigator]

The calendar may say "spring", but we have fresh snow on the passes this morning contributing to our wonderful snow pack. The outlook for fishing this summer is great, but our early season opportunities may be limited by a phenomena unknown to many Oregon transplants, spring runoff. It looks like we'll have a good old fashion high water spring. The Deschutes is flowing a 14,000 cfs and rinsing out some of the invasive algae caused by the changes to the Pelton Dam outflow, but even this won't solve that problem completely. Still, it's nice to see. Here's Shear's Falls on Sunday and a normal high water view from last fall.

The Salmonfly hatch may be a little later this year...



I couldn't even get to this vantage point on Sunday. For those not familiar, the platforms are used by the Warm Springs Indians for dip netting salmon. They'll have to rebuild them for the first time in a few years...

 

[Vincent Keith]

Loved it when I was growing up - then life happened - I know I got a couple of lines put on my ancient Harding and picked up a Sage 4 piece rod several years back in anticipation of starting again - then that pesky life thing happened and my plans went poof. It would be fun to get back into it.

Huh - it has been a while - the reels are Hardy which I now remember I also had serviced.

 

[FlyJeep]

Another fun day in the float tube at Rancho Seco. Type 4 line with a size 8 black wiggle tail I tie.

If you have ever seen the movie Howard the Duck, the final scene was shot at Rancho Seco, it's a decommissioned nuclear power plant. Bit of movie trivia.


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[NV.Recon]

Another fun day in the float tube at Rancho Seco. Type 4 line with a size 8 black wiggle tail I tie.

If you have ever seen the movie Howard the Duck, the final scene was shot at Rancho Seco, it's a decommissioned nuclear power plant. Bit of movie trivia.


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Nice! I used to love that movie when I was younger, haha. I have done a little fishing in power plant cooling ponds myself. Always such an eerie feeling but the bass seem to thrive.

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