Cap. 020 - My Fair Lady.

L'ascolto : "  Joshua Bell   " / Assolutamente da Ascoltare !

"... every once in a while someone puts together a fly that is simple and easy to tie that is just right for what it was intended for. One of those flies that when you look at it you think, "Now why didn't I think of that, it is so obvious". Sometimes it isn't so obvious, obviously, and that's why we didn't.

The color olive seems like an obvious color to use in salt-water flies, doesn't it? There was a time not so long ago when it wasn't even listed as a color to use with blondes. Yellow and olive together is a recent, very recent salt-water combination. Look in all the books before the late eighties. You may find some flies tied with these colors; then again, you might not. You will find olive and you will find white and you will find them together, but olive and yellow is not in the mainstream until much later.

There is a fly that has been around for eleven or twelve years in New England that is and has been the most favored fly here since its introduction via the Rhody Flyrodders newsletter in 1990. It is not a fly that has received any press nor had anyone praising it, yet, on it's merit alone it has become a mainstay, passed on from one angler to another as the cure for the right fly blues. The reason is simple- it outfishes every other silverside fly day in day out in all types of situations. The only people who don't know this as fact are those who haven't tried it or won't try it. Other silverside flies will outfish it sometimes. Put those flies on droppers and every once in a while you will catch more stripers on the dropper flies than on a Ray's Fly. Think of it as a fishing experiment and let the fish themselves tell you what they think about Ray's Fly when they are given a chance to make a choice.
Thank you Ray Bondorew for this wonderful, "New England Classic", bucktail striper fly. ...

Citato da : Kenney Abrames.

Questo quanto descrive Kenney Abrames riguardo questo artificiale tanto semplice quanto geniale ed efficacie.

Questo ha cominciato a destsare il mio interesse nel momento in cui ho modificato il mio approccio all'azione di pesca, da quando cioè ho smesso di recuperare in maniera forsennata le mie mosche e ho cominciato a farle nuotare assecondando la corrente, ecco che ho sentito il bisogno di avere nelle mie scatole mosche come la Rays.

Una volta acquisita non ho impiegato molto tempo a reimpiegare lo schema costruttivo nei colouser ottenendo una mosca versatile e di facile impiego in parecchie situazioni, ma di questo se ne potrà poi parlare.

Adesso finito l'inverno, mi son dovuto rimettere al morsetto per rimpinguare le mie scatole ormai orfane di Rays.

Anticipando che non uso il dressing originale, ma uno leggermente variato, che mi è comodo per verificare sempre le condizioni di corrosione dell'amo di uscita in uscita.

                                                                                           Photo by Randaragna