Sculpins!

[PatrickC]

Some things just get me excited. I thought you might understand.

Big sculpins = big browns, big steelhead, big bass, big pike and other things I'm sure!

 

[jayL]

Ah, the meat box. Every FFer should have one. If they don't they're a pansy. :-D

 

[PatrickC]

jayL wrote:
Ah, the meat box. Every FFer should have one. If they don't they're a pansy. :-D

Preach on brother!

 

[bikerfish]

you said it jayl!

 

[MattBoyer]

jayL wrote:
Ah, the meat box. Every FFer should have one. If they don't they're a pansy. :-D

What? You have other kinds of fly boxes? Pfft! Pansy! 😛

Boyer

 

[PatrickC]

I'm no where near trout water for another week. Me and the sculpins took it out on about 20 LMB at a couple of local farm ponds last night.

Back to the brownies next weekend! I have not casted for trout for 3 weeks. My addiction is becoming a problem. I have been waking up at night dreaming about small streams and big brown trout. I think I need a therapist!

 

[albatross]

It's terminal Patrick. Learn to live with it!

 

[DGC]

A typical therapist tactic is to reframe the situation. In this case, reframe the big sculpins as glorified bait fishing--and you are a fly fisher, not a bait fisher.

Did that work?

 

[PatrickC]

DGC wrote:
A typical therapist tactic is to reframe the situation. In this case, reframe the big sculpins as glorified bait fishing--and you are a fly fisher, not a bait fisher.

Did that work?

Not really 🙂

I'm not struggling with fishing tactics, nor the debate of true fly fishing vs. casting non-bug patterns. I just have to overcome my pure addiction to fishing. My real life is starting to get in the way of my addiction. Like right now for instance. It's Saturday morning and I'm catching up on charts, when I could be fishing. The reason I'm behind on my charts is because I was probably day dreaming about fishing between patients. That's where the therapy comes in.

 

[Bruno]

You may find this of interest.

 

[bam]

makes me wonder why I ever fish with nymphs or dries

 

[gribble]

hmmm dries what are those? dont those things float ..lol.. dudes heed whats being preached here! We may go fishless time after time fishing large bait patterns but when we do land one it will be a larger fish fo-sho!

 

[PatrickC]

Bruno wrote:
You may find this of interest.

Kelly's Butt Monkey Sculpins are sweet and really pretty easy to tie!

 

[PatrickC]

gribble wrote:
hmmm dries what are those? dont those things float ..lol.. dudes heed whats being preached here! We may go fishless time after time fishing large bait patterns but when we do land one it will be a larger fish fo-sho!

Semper Fi!

 

[Fredrick]

 

[PatrickC]

Quick, put that on a hook!

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

There was a thread sometime ago about articulated sculpins. Jay had a great pattern for these and the work wonders.

 

[PatrickC]

salvelinusfontinalis wrote:
There was a thread sometime ago about articulated sculpins. Jay had a great pattern for these and the work wonders.

I have a couple of different articulated sculpins. The articulated Butt Monkey is cool.

I saw a sculpin tying video the other day where they were tying articulated sculpins and other large streamers with no significant weight on the head. This guy likes to use bullet slip sinkers on his line in rocky streams. He said the bullet sinker goes down in the rocks some, but the streamer still floats above nicely. He said he thinks he has better control and fewer snags in the rocks this way.

Gees, back in my plastic worm casting days, I did that all of the time. Never thought to try the same with a big sculpin. I toyed with it a little this weekend in a farm pond. Seems like it sould work well.

Speaking of the farm pond, I had a 5-6lb large mouth hit one of the sculpins this weekend. When I went to set the hook, my rod (2 piece 6 wt) snapped right at the taper where the 1st section goes into the ferrule of the 2nd section. I guess if your gonna break one...it's better than slamming it in a car door. 😛int:

Thanks for keeping this thread going. I'm now a stones throw away from casting to sime nice brownies Saturday evening and Sunday morning on the Mad (sorry, no time to get to PA for 2 more weeks). Can't wait.!

 

[sight_nymph_17109]

Anyone ever see that 'wet fly / sculpin' thing that Joe Humphreys uses?

I got him to give me 2 of them up at Paradise one day. It's on a streamer hook. Start tying marabou near the bend. Big clump pointing back, wrap the remainder around the shank, tie it off. Keep moving forward and squashing the stuff back so it's pretty tightly packed. Spun deer hair head trimmed to a bullet shape. All black or all brown. They got some very nice action in the water.

 

[YBFlyFisher]

If you want to catch the big boys on the Yellow Breeches near Allenberry, these are the ticket.