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Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:41 pm
by upstatetrout
I have been informed that a Waterhen and Bloah is good for the Beaverkill.I know this water


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Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:51 pm
by letumgo
Classic beauty. I’d fish that with full confidence. ;)

Is that an Alex Jackson hook? What size are you using?

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:55 am
by Bishthefish1
upstatetrout wrote:I have been informed that a Waterhen and Bloah is good for the Beaverkill.I know this water very well.

Tom

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A well tied Waterhen Bloa is good most places Tom! I have had some nice Grayling over the winter on them here in Yorkshire. I would be happy to put yours on my top dropper :D

A quick tip: if fish are ignoring your fly but taking emergers or spent females, use a Waterhen Bloa with a small pearlescent tag. It has become a modern classic over here.

Alistair

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:46 am
by upstatetrout
Thank you both for the comments I appreciate them.Criticism is necessay either positive or negative to achieve any kind of progress for any thing we try to accomplish.

Ray I tied that fly on a sz.13 Alec Jackson hook.

Alistair I hope to pick up some pearlescent tinsel this weekend.I will be attending the fly fishing show in
Atlanta then off to the White River in Arkansas.The Grannom fly should be starting in a couple of weeks.

Tom

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:59 am
by Bazzer69
Bishthefish1 wrote:
upstatetrout wrote:I have been informed that a Waterhen and Bloah is good for the Beaverkill.I know this water very well.

Tom

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A well tied Waterhen Bloa is good most places Tom! I have had some nice Grayling over the winter on them here in Yorkshire. I would be happy to put yours on my top dropper :D

A quick tip: if fish are ignoring your fly but taking emergers or spent females, use a Waterhen Bloa with a small pearlescent tag. It has become a modern classic over here.

Alistair
Alistair, please don’t take offense, but a “modern classic” is that a contradiction in terms?
I’m not at all in agreement with adding any kind of synthetic materials to classic soft hackles. If you must ad a tag, why not use flat or oval silver tinsel? But saying it fishes better is usually in the anglers mind, not the fishes.
Barry

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:17 pm
by Bishthefish1
No offence taken Barry
For 'modern classic' read 'very popular'. It was first brought to the attention of UK fishers by a North Country angler/flytyer/guide/instructor by the name of Paul Proctor in one of his monthly columns in Trout & Salmon magazine back in 2012 or 2013 (If I remember right) and has been picked up by other North Country anglers that are way more proficient than me as a deadly variant of a classic fly. See comments by the angler himself.

https://www.fieldsportsmagazine.com/Tac ... flies.html

Thanks
Alistair

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:12 pm
by Bazzer69
Bishthefish1 wrote:No offence taken Barry
For 'modern classic' read 'very popular'. It was first brought to the attention of UK fishers by a North Country angler/flytyer/guide/instructor by the name of Paul Proctor in one of his monthly columns in Trout & Salmon magazine back in 2012 or 2013 (If I remember right) and has been picked up by other North Country anglers that are way more proficient than me as a deadly variant of a classic fly. See comments by the angler himself.

https://www.fieldsportsmagazine.com/Tac ... flies.html

Thanks
Alistair
Deadly or not, it’s not a classic. As I wrote it would be more acceptable if French tinsel was used.
I would hate this forum to go the way of other forums where modern synthetic materials are used proclaiming they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I would put the skill of the fisherman way above the use of a bit of crystal flash.

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:11 pm
by tie2fish
Personally, I use natural materials probably 95% of the time in my tying. But, IMO, a fisherman who refuses to integrate anything synthetic simply because it is not natural is not only limiting his range of tying, but also handicapping himself on the water. Just sayin' ...

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:34 pm
by Bishthefish1
Surely even tinsel would have been considered a modern synthetic once? But it was fully embraced by the old timers (even here in Yorkshire). As an angler on those same streams as the founders of the North Country Spiders I am a big advocate of traditional and natural materials but I am not adverse to incorporating a synthetic material in my flies if it can improve my catch rate, after all confidence in ones patterns is away of breeding success.

Re: Waterhen and Bloah

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:11 pm
by upstatetrout
Well put!!!!! Alistair.

Tom