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Ultra Shrimp, Popovics -
(Lot of 6)
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UMPQUA Ultra Shrimp,
Popovics - (Lot of 6) AVAILABLE IN SIZES #2 and #4.
$10.99
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UMPQUA Ultra Shrimp, Popovics at below an
average retail price of $4.00.
The Ultra Shrimp is sold in lots of 6 for
$10.99.
The Ultra is the most realistic and successful grass shrimp
imitation in use along the east coast. You can fish it, deadrift, around
shoreline grass beds or under floating mats of eel grass. You can also fish it
in a current at a predetermined depth by attaching a strike indicator to your
leader and allow the Fly to drift along with the tide. This is a favorite
procedure of New Jersey Striper Anglers. A SUPER PRODUCTIVE technique is to
chum the water with grass shrimp. Throw only a few at a time every minute or
so, into the current, allowing them to drift with the tide, usually near inlets
or along jetties. After ten minutes, let your fly drift back into the slick
with the line taut to detect a pickup, but not enough to inhibit the drift of
the Fly. Weakfish and Stripers have succumbed to this technique for
generations.
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UMPQUA Practical Saltwater
Fly Selection - (Lot of 6)
Dave Botelho
shows the proper way to handle a nasty Bluefish that fell for one of his Lefty
Deceivers on Cape Cod's Monomoy Flats. |
Umpqua Practical Saltwater
Fly Selection - (Lot of 6) Mixed Lot. NOTE: YOU WILL RECEIVE 2 OF
EACH FLY (TOTAL 6 FLIES PER SALE).
$10.99
Lefty's Deceiver -
(Lot of 6) (Chartreuse/White #2/0)
$10.99
Clouser's Deep Minnow
- (Lot of 6) (Blue or Chartreuse/White #2/0)
$10.99
Sea Habit Herring
Bucktail - (Lot of 6) (Herring Color #2)
$10.99
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Umpqua Practical Saltwater Fly Selection
sold in lots of 6 each or mixed for $10.99
Lefty's Deceiver
(Chartreuse/White #2/0)
Clouser's Deep Minnow (Blue or Chartreuse/White
#2/0) The
Sea Habit Herring Bucktail (Herring Color #2)
Practical Fly Selection for Saltwater
by Captain John
A. Kumiski
"There is an expression used by scientists, Occam's
razor. The idea is that if there are two theories, each of which plausibly
explains a phenomenon, the other which explains it more simply and elegantly is
probably the correct one. Occam's razor explains my approach to Fly
selection-KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Where you live and what you fish for most of
the time will color your choice of flies, of course. In spite of this, some
flies are so universal in their appeal to gamefish of all types that they need
to be by almost all Saltwater flyrodders. In my travels, I see the same classic
patterns in the Fly boxes of all the good Fly Fishers it's been my fortune to
meet.
LEFTY'S DECEIVER is a superb example of this universal type of
fly. With it's shape imitating that of so many different types of baitfish,
it's ability to be adapted and modified to fit differing conditions, and
because it can be tied in sizes ranging from two inches to over ten inches in
length, Deceivers can be and are used to catch everything from panfish to
billfish. ALL Fly Fishers need a selection of these Flies in various sizes and
colors.
BOB CLOUSER'S DEEP MINNOW is another example of a Fly that ALL
fish will eat. A simple tie of lead, steel, and bucktail, more than fifty
different species of fish have been taken on Clouser minnows. They are a
standard on everything from bass to bonefish.
The SEA HABIT HERRING
BUCKTAIL, adds so much enjoyment to the Fly Fisher's life.
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Umpqua Bonefish Flies:
The Crazy Charlie
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Umpqua Bonefish Flies:
The Crazy Charlie - (Lot of 6) COLOR PINK AND SIZE #4.
$10.99
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Crazy Charlie is sold in lots of 6 for
$10.99 in pink size #4.
Bob Nauhiem (February 9, 1934-September 9,
2005) lost his valiant battle with prostate cancer at the age of 71. Bob
developed the Crazy Charlie. He designed it whilst fishing with the Bahamian
fishing guide Charlie Smith of Charlie's Haven on Andros Island, in the Bahamas
in the late 1970's. Bob designed this famous fly based on Charlie's lifelong
observations of eating habits of Bonefish.
Bob originally tied it to
emulate glass minnows but soon realized that the bonefish were taking it as a
shrimp. Instead of naming the fly after himself like so many other tiers he
called it "Bonefish Charlie Smith". Charlie Smith then changed the name to "Dat
fly nasty".
Leigh Perkins of Orvis called Bob Nauheim when Leigh was
planning a trip to Christmas Island. He took Bob's fly with him and had a great
fishing trip. He liked it so much that he arranged for it to be commercially
tied and marketed through Orvis. Leigh inadvertently changed the name "Nasty"
to "Crazy". The Crazy Charlie name stuck. This fly is an inverted hook pattern
so that the hook does not get caught on the bottom while it bounces up and down
and makes puffy little clouds on the bottom that sends out visible signals to
nearby Bonefish that " there is something to eat there" |
  
Bob Nauhiem (February 9,
1934-September 9, 2005) |
Umpqua Bonefish Flies:
The Gotcha
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Umpqua Bonefish Flies:
The Gotcha - (Lot of 6) COLOR PEARL AND SIZE #4.
$10.99
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The Gotcha is sold in lots of 6 for $10.99
in pearl size #4.
One of the biggest dilemmas we face when going
bonefishing is figuring out what flies to use at our destination. Even though
literally hundreds of bonefish patterns exist. One Bonefish fly that seems to
work almost everywhere I go is a simple craft fur and braid creation called the
Gotcha. The story goes that Ted McVay and his son Jim were staying at the
Andros Island Bonefish Club, Jim snipped some yellow carpet fibers from the
floor of a taxi and used them to tie a new fly. Every time a fish it the fly,
guide Rubert Leadon would say, "Gotcha." The rest is HISTORY with this fly.
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