“mAngler” comes from a play on words I came up with one day after I had first started fly fishing. I was sitting there untangling my sixth birdnest of leader, tippet, and flyline in the last couple hours, and I thought to myself, “Angler…more like Mangler”…Of course, I thought it oh so clever, and have used it for my username ever since…
Of course I never birdnest my line anymore…
mAngler
“Jack of all trades – Master of none”
[This message has been edited by mAngler (edited 23 June 2006).]
Charles Meck, is the creator of the Patriot dry fly which has a blue body. He also ties an egg pattern in blue. He claims that trout are attractted to blue. I have used the Patriot dry fly and it does work well.
That’s funny mAngler…(on the handle’) Funny thing is I didn’t capitalize the A the second time I poster, saw it read ‘mangler’ and edited it to put a big ‘A’ where it belonged…lol. Seems to be a lot of stretching to come up with some ‘blue’ oddball trout flies. I’ve never noticed blue shade on peacock herl someone mentioned at least not any natural, …usually a nice bronze. I’ll have to check again now…see what you started…lol By the way, welcome to the site. Lot of good stuff and good people on here…Bob
You are right, not much in blue for trout flies. However, the concept is not lost on steelheaders. There are a myriad of blue steelhead patterns. I guess one needs to tie up some blue attractors and see how they work.
Hi Guys,
i did a wet fly pattern for a swap this past winter SPRING BLUE the color cought my eye. havn’t heard if anyone has had any luck with it, but i hooked a few stocked bows with it earlier in the season
Preparing for a fishing trip a while back, I came across a beed head nymph pattern at the local fly shop that had blue wire and some sparkle to it. I thought it looked pretty neat so I picked a couple up. During the fishing trip, I used it and caught most of my fish on that nymph pattern. I do not know the name of the pattern (now I will ask) but I was surprised. The fish seemed to hit that each time and not so much on other nymphs I fished. This was in Southwest Wisconsin over Memorial Day weekend. The best trip I have ever had fly fishing. We were catching everything!
Before an anger, or fly tier can understand just what colors are effective for a specfic species of fish, they have to understand, how colors we see (involving the fly pattern used) differ from how the fish preceive the same fly pattern.
First, the dry fly coloration, is different than the same fly coloration when wet.
Secondly, the deeper in the water the fly is below the surface, colors disappear from the underwater spectrum of light (color red disappears first (color blue is the last color to disappear).
Third, the fish does not see as we do but have fish-eye lens. Some fish have stereo vision to see ahead, while others eye placement to the sides and cannot not see ahead on their route of travel.
Fourth, some colors better mimic, common items in the specific fishes diet.
There is a very popular Atlantic salmon fly called the Smurf. Can you guess what colour it is? Of course it’s blue for all of you who don’t know what a smurf is. lol
It is spun blue deer hair and if I had any idea of how to post a picture on here, I would.
My Apache Peacock Wet Fly Pattern uses a Blue
Irridescent Peacock Sword Soft Hackle. I also create streamers that have a Blue-Black Combination. Charles Meck also has a great attracter (the Patriot). I also created a midge (size 32) "Blue Lightning). There are several patterns of mine I utilize blue !!!