Lings on a fly

borrowed this thread from NWKA
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,5555.msg78269.html#msg78269
gonna tie some more of these tonight

If the guys in Florida can catch Tarpoon on a fly, there is no reason why a ling can't go down on one!  Good luck and post a story when you do!

will do..... waiting for that window of opportunity

Lings and rock fish are not going to resist

Looks cool thanks for posting. Keeping my eye out for the post

Those weighted flies in the vermillion colors look deadly!
I can't wait to see a report. 

Nice work!  Thanks for sharing...

WOW! Very nice! Please do post up a report,,,soon. Those look to good to be ignored.

Bring some of your awesome fly at the GS6 bro. I'd love to score some nice fish with them at the tourney.

Jedmo

I actually had a better-than-average year for lings in 2011, including some kelp greenling. Some of the flies I used are the olive ones in the photos below. The fish photos are from 2010. Those lings took clousers that were lighter in color but still plenty of olive.

Sometimes they are not in very deep water, which makes it a little easier with a fly rig. I caught several this year in water less than 30'.
Thanks for the photos.
Bill

I actually had a better-than-average year for lings in 2011, including some kelp greenling. Some of the flies I used are the olive ones in the photos below. The fish photos are from 2010. Those lings took clousers that were lighter in color but still plenty of olive.

Sometimes they are not in very deep water, which makes it a little easier with a fly rig. I caught several this year in water less than 30'.
Thanks for the photos.
Bill

Nice! Gets me excited to try these. Thanx for the pics, might try tying some like you've got there.

good looking flies, been working on a few also, call this one the bleeding greenling, cameron

Nice tying skills!
I've started to tie and must say it will be awhile before my bugs will look like the ones you guys are tying!
This season I'm gonna try to fly fish a lot more.

When I was on Kodiak in 2008 with some of the folks from the Alaska Flyfishers, they were fishing for lings with flies.  They were targeting them off the bottom, in 100'-135'. But they wound up having to do what I'd consider "cheating", by using a 1 oz twist on sinker, on top of the flies that had the largest lead eyes available, along with lead wire wrapped around the hook, and mono running line tied directly to 30' of T14.

The biggest fish caught on a fly was a ~10 pound ling. Poor thing practically still had milk on its lips (figuratively).

What was a lot more fun, was to get over a school of Blacks or Duskys, and get the school to come to the surface by using conventional tackle to get their attention, and then targeting them with the fly rods.

If you can dream it you can tie it....very nice work guys... If I ever get my tying stuff here I would love to tie some flys for anyone willing to take me with them.....You supply the hooks and I will supply the furr and feathers...should be about the 15th of Feb..
Let me know..
craig

More fish pics!!!!