[Mike Barrio]

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

[Mike Barrio]

[bordertroot]

When time of year was that taken Mike ?

[Mike Barrio]

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

[Peter McCallum]

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

[Sandy Nelson]

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

Sandy

[Quickcast 84]

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 

[Iain Goolager]

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

[Peter McCallum]

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

Iain

Heaven forfend Iain 

[Matt Henderson]

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.

[Matt Henderson]

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