This Blog is10 Years Old

How time flies.
This Blog is now 10 years old.
I could never have imagined I would have kept posting for 10 years.

Fly fishing is addictive, really.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays.

Some Ugly Flies for the holiday fishing.

Mama Broke 16 Pound Tippet

Caught a big mama with this real Ugly Fly.
Broke the 16 pound tippet when the fly line caught the reel handle,
while the mama was making it's third run.

Settled for a few smaller ones.

Fly Line Colour Code Weight 000 To Weight 17

Added weight 14 to weight 17.

I did a search on the internet and found fly lines weight until weight 15 only.

Fly Line Colour Code With Shrink Tubes

Look what marker pen did to my fly line.

00 Weight. Green-On-White. Sage Double Quiet Taper.

0 Weight. Yellow-On-White. Sage Quiet Taper.

1 Weight. Red-On-White. Sage Quiet Taper

1 Weight. Red-On-White

2 Weight. Blue. The old marker pen marking covered with a transparent shrink tube.

3 Weight. Green.

4 Weight. Yellow

5 Weight. Red. The old marker pen markings cut away and a new Loop-To-Loop made.

5 Weight. Red.

Fly Line Weight Colour Code

I had been trying to figure out how to mark the weight of the fly line on the line itself.

First I tried using a marker pen. Using dots and dashes, like Morse Code.

But the markings got really messy and ugly.

Now I am doing it with Shrink Tubes for electrical wires.

I had been using these markings for quite some time now.

They worked just fine, and it is really neat.

Easy to remember.

I have fly lines, weight from 00 weight to 5 weight.

But I had created the colour codes just in case I have the other weights.

You can do the markings at either end of the fly line.

Initially I did the markings at both ends of the fly lines.

The fishes keep biting at the the markings and I missed hookups.

Now I do the markings on the ends connected to the backing.

There are a brown and transparent colour shrink tubes.

I used the transparent ones to mark sinking lines.

No markings on the floating lines.

These shrink tube markings also serve another purpose.
They are used to cover the whippings on the braided loops we used as loop-to-loop connections.
Making the connection look better and neat and, maybe stronger.

More Ugly Flies

More Ugly Flies.
Some fishes caught by these really Ugly Flies.

Hooked on the upper lip.