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The other night I decided to tie up a pattern I'd seen on a US based forum - it is by a talented tyer called Jonny King and the fly is called a Kinky Muddler (I'd seen a tie of it by Andy Elliott)... I had a little play and this is a very imperfect first attempt at this tie... I used white for the underside and the top wing a combination of shrimp, pink and black marker pen with a little blue flash... as I say it was a play... craft eyes were bonded in place.
So Friday morning I woke to a hard frost and decided a trip to the trout fishery was not on(there are pike in there
)! Too cold... so I went for a mooch nearer home... To cut a long story short I had a follow and then a boil from a bigger fish behind the fly and then a cast that resulted in this jack... nice to have the string pulled.
Fly fishing for pike has to be the best method... certainly is for me... (note the really important bit of kit... the unhooking mat - please, please if you fish for pike and you are doing C&R please use a mat they aren't hardy fish and don't go back wel if roughly handled)
And it's a pattern I'll tie up for the bass as well.
So Friday morning I woke to a hard frost and decided a trip to the trout fishery was not on(there are pike in there
Fly fishing for pike has to be the best method... certainly is for me... (note the really important bit of kit... the unhooking mat - please, please if you fish for pike and you are doing C&R please use a mat they aren't hardy fish and don't go back wel if roughly handled)
And it's a pattern I'll tie up for the bass as well.

