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Title: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 10/04/2011 at 17:52

What can you tell me about ..... "Damsels" on our small stillwaters and lochs?

What do they look like? How do they move and swim? Flies that work well? How do you fish them?

Best wishes
Mike

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 10/04/2011 at 22:23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8Kk9ug3P8

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: bordertroot on 10/04/2011 at 23:11

When time of year was that taken Mike ?

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 11/04/2011 at 00:29

Can't remember I'm afraid, I think I took that video back in 2006, if I get a chance I'll see if I still have the originals somewhere, as this would give me a download date from my camera.

A couple of photos, also of damsels at Haddo ............. plus a corixa

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/z061008f.jpg)

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/z061008g.jpg)

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Peter McCallum on 11/04/2011 at 11:55

most people who fish 'damsels' aren't fishing damsels

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 11/04/2011 at 12:25

If i remember right, the vids were done for that years tying competition.
Think it was actually 2007 and it would have been about october time.

Dan was catching them, we were filming them :z18

Sandy

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Quickcast 84 on 11/04/2011 at 18:36

there is a few ways to fish damsels.i tend to use a slow method with a twitch every 5 or so seconds,thats the best way to make the damsel fly life like in movement.i go for the dark olive with green glass eyes.this method has been very affective for me  :z16

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Iain Goolager on 11/04/2011 at 19:15

Quote

most people who fish 'damsels' aren't fishing damsels

Peter, I hope you're not suggesting an olive WSW is not a damsel imitation?!

Iain

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Peter McCallum on 11/04/2011 at 20:23

Quote from: Goolager on 11/04/2011 at 19:15

Peter, I hope you're not suggesting an olive WSW is not a damsel imitation?!

Iain

Heaven forfend Iain  :z4 :z4 :z4

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Matt Henderson on 20/04/2011 at 11:18

I normally tie something between a nymp pattern and an olive wooly bugger.  However the old man got a packet of "super damsels" for his birthday last year.  There were a few similar to the ones I tie but others had some sort of knotted detached body and resembled the pictures mike posted a lot more than my usual offering.  Nearly all of them were weighted in some manner.

Title: Re: What can you tell me about ..... Damsels?
Post by: Matt Henderson on 25/04/2011 at 22:05

Mike,

Do people have much success with dry imitations of hatched damsels rather than imitations of them before they have hatched?

A trawl on t`interweb threw up quite a few dry damsel patterns.

Cheers

Matt