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Hi Everyone,

I'm out here in Vancouver for a few weeks and will be hoping to catch some salmon while I'm here. Having never fished for Pacific salmon, I made the rounds to the fly shops in the area to get an idea of which flies to use. Belows is a pic of some of the flies. The larger flies are for Chinook (springs) and the smaller for Coho (silvers).



I thought the two large leech flies were interesting. The body is tied on 65lb PowerPro with a trailing hook attached. I thought this tying technique could be used to make some interesting pike flies. Here's a link to how to tie a MOAL (Mother of All Leeches) fly:

http://www.flycraftangling.com/flies_arc.html?a=45

I'll make sure to post some reports of my fishing adventures over the next few weeks.

Cheers,

Salar.

Those flies are terrific!

Salmon flies are definitely my favorite, as far as the look goes.

I'm not sure I want to fish the big blue one, at $6 a piece I'd be afraid to loose it

....pfft...

I've been losing flies left and right. Lately I seem to be notorious for it.

I need to stock up, and eventually start making my own.

HereMyGo wrote:I need to stock up, and eventually start making my own.

I'm not convinced that tying your own flies saves money....

Salar wrote:I'm not convinced that tying your own flies saves money....

It does not. Its fun, etc.. and maybe if you wanted to bang-out 500 woolly buggers vs paying for 500 buggers you'd get return... but in my (very) limited experience, tying is for fun, not for savings.


That being said.. don't be a candy butt! Get that $6.00 fly and chuck it till yer arm falls off!!!

Hookup wrote:That being said.. don't be a candy butt! Get that $6.00 fly and chuck it till yer arm falls off!!!

LOL

Sorry there guys, but i have to disagree about the whole "tying flies doesn't save you money", If it wasn't cheaper to tie your own flies, no one would tie flies to sell, it wouldn't be worth it. For beginners, when the selection of materials are limited, it may seem around the same price, but once you stock up on enough different materials, it becomes cheaper to tie several different flies. Just don't want your previous posts to turn people away from learning to tie their own flies. Yeah its fun, but can also save money as well.

Evan wrote:If it wasn't cheaper to tie your own flies, no one would tie flies to sell, it wouldn't be worth it.

The majority of commercial flies for sale are tied overseas (Africa, Thailand, Taiwan) using cheap labour. This is how distributors can sell them to stores to sell them to us and still make money.

I should have also wrote that commercial tying is done on a large scale so the cost per fly to produce is much less.

Costly or cost-savings aside...

DID you get that $6.00 monster??? If so, did it pay off?

Yes, I've bought a couple of the $6 'monsters'. Unfortunately, I haven't got out to fish with them yet. So far from the reports I've heard the salmon are just starting to come into the rivers. There are some early fish but it'll be another couple weeks till the run is really on. My plan is to get out later this week to target chinooks. As they say "aint no nookie like chinookie"

Not sure where you are headed for fishing Salar but if you plan on doing any of it in the Whistler/Squamish area you have to give my good buddy Clint a call. He is the owner/head guide at www.valleyfishing.com

He just finished competing at the Canadian Championships coming away with an overall Top 10, but more importantly he's a great guy.

Have fun!!

Thanks for the info Robert. I'll look him up. The Whistler / Squamish River area is beautiful. I've enjoyed the fishing I've done there in the past.

Cool, he's actually an Ottawa valley guy too...he's from Deep River.

Check out a few of his pictures on the website, he has taken both Roger Waters from Pink Floyd and Richard Branson heli-fishing up north in the Chilko river.

Good luck.