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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
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 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 09:26:30 AM
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If I could come up with a word that rhymes with "titleguy", you could be famous for the second time in a month. You wouldn't object to that, would you?   |
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Edited by - Streamer on 07/14/2006 09:27:00 AM |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 09:34:22 AM
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My, my, the Bard is a bit touchy today, eh?  |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 09:49:34 AM
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Got the day off, and all the water around is warmer than bath water. Even the bass are lying low. I have to wait until sundown, just like everybody else, to go fishing.  (You'd be grumpy, too.)
What a year...even the good days are bad days. At least Selene has an answer to Mother Nature's Revenge. |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 09:56:03 AM
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| At least you have the chance to fish- I might stop at Shawmut tonight on my way over to camp, however. Of course, spey class was very fun. |
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Capt.Hook
Active Member
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 10:37:12 AM
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Ok,
Here's my humble offering to the contest. In considering an honor to location and color, how about the Shawmut Firefly?
Now, a day will come when a great tyer, like Selene, is going to come to Mike with a white colored fly and ask "Hey Mike, what do you think would be a good name for this one?" He'll then hopefully remember back to this posting and the fact that it was first coined here: The White Rock-a-Billy
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Bill Blake
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 11:58:54 AM
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It's funny how when someone comes up with a really good fly, you tend to look at it and think, "It's amazing no one came up with this years ago!" (Unless someone did come up with it years ago and you simply weren't aware of it). That certainly looks like one of those kinds of flies.
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Jeff Reardon
Frequent Contributor
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 12:32:50 PM
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Very nice looking fly. Interesting, this spring I've started playing around with bright orange muddlers on brook trout ponds after a friend who guides suggested it and rolled a couple of nice fish on one. They work great.
I stopped my 2 River in Medway on my way in to Baxter a couple weeks ago and they had several version, and were clearly selling a bunch of them.
This years fashion seems to be orange!
I suggest one additional name--Creamsicle--after those old orange shebert and ice cream treats on the Good Humor truck.
Edited to add: Oops, missed that suggestion was already out there. I could go for a Creamsicle about now in my un-air conditioned office.
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tim_s
Frequent Contributor
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 3:15:22 PM
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Dumaine's Clockwork Orange - the thing catches fish like clockwork (and if you don't use it, we have ways of reconditioning you!)
Dumain'e Orange Juice
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Dumaine's Fire Zuddler
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Dumaine's Carrot-top - growing up a red head, i am partial to this one!
or
The Heat Miser for all the fans of bass & rankin (see, Bass was one of the creator's of the Heat Miser, it all fits!!!)
the original heat Miser -  |
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Selene Dumaine
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 4:58:25 PM
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| I must say that I am enjoying these posts and the name suggestions immensly! I have a few favorites so far, but MUM is the word. |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:48:01 AM
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I knew I'd seen this orange/green color scheme before:
It's a mango, which is still a little green when it's ripe.
Yesterday, I got a call from Linda at Fly Fishing Only, telling me that MsStreamer's rod had arrived, and that I could come and pick it up. Vainly hoping I would find the water in Shawmut cooler, I decided a good time to pick it up would be then and there.
I also intended to pick up a few of the as yet unnamed tropical treasures buried in the sands of this post, but, alas...pirates had scuttled the bins and had made off with every last one. Two of them, the greedy plunderers, were there at the counter when I arrived, hoarding their loot at the cash register.
"Har! I'll be shovin' off, now, with me booty. I got mine, and any miserable seadog what wants one of these beauties will have to deal with me...AT SIX SOVEREIGNS APIECE! HAR, HAR, HAR!"
"Six? SIX? Why, at six sovereigns each, you might's well give up piratin' for the clergy. Make 'em walk the plank for 'em...TEN sovereigns, or they go down fishless to Davy Jones' locker!"
"The Devil, you say...I meant six for me mates, and that's only 'cuz they're me mates. The rest better be keepin' their wanderin' eyes off'n me treasure, 'cuz I HATE PEOPLE!" With that, he shot me a cannon blast with his one good eye, immediately sinking any chance of a share.
A bit of a buccaneer myself, I did eventually walk away from the store with one of the much-coveted prizes in my pocket. Better, the one-eyed, hard-hearted SOB actually gave it to me! In return, I have to keep his true identity secret, because if word got out that he actually did something nice for somebody, he'd have to come back and kill me. It's a fair enough bargain.
Like Mike and Tinsnip before me experienced, I approached the first voyage of this cone-headed creation with a faint heart and some trepidation. In fact, I didn't hold onto any hope, false or not, that this "thing" would produce as well for me as it had for them. In the dying heat of the dwindling day (about 6:00), after nothing else had moved a fish, I tied it on. Like my predecessors, I told myself that I'd give it a half-hour (...which could be part of the secret of its success). On the third pass through a deep run, there was a YANK on the line, and the pull of a muscular fish jarred my wrist.
We did the Mango Tango for an exciting few minutes. I brought him up from the depths from whence I'd dredged him, and he shook in a silvery flash, with a bright purple/reddish streak along his length. He made a charge downstream; I feed him slack, eventually turned him, and brought him [almost] to hand. The sight of me terrorized him so much that he made another run, and this time I had the line snubbed to net him. He broke off  , right at the knot, taking the precious fly with him.
Now, I know this isn't one of those essay contests, like Why I Absolutely NEED A Half-Dozen of Selene Dumaine's Awesome Fish-Catching Flies, but I'm writing this because I DO absolutely need a half-dozen more, and I have to tell you:
YOU do, too!
Post Script: As Heron pointed out early in the thread, "Mango" has already been used:
http://www.globalflyfisher.com/patterns/mango/ |
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Hunter
Frequent Contributor
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 1:45:43 PM
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So you say you lost the Last Mango ?
My apologies to Jimmy Buffett:
Streamer went down to Fly Fishing Only
to get out of the heat,
He heard a voice call out to him,
"Son come fish a beat",
He had to search his memory
as he cast long on the water.
The runs change like the weather
but a good one never dries.
The big fish ate the Last Mango in Paradise,
took his first last jump by the island,
took the fastest way out of the run,
and for Streamer there's not much that could be done....
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FFOaddict
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 2:10:10 PM
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Another suggestion Shawmut Orang Sure-bet. Or Shawmut Surebet |
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Capt.Hook
Active Member
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 3:23:39 PM
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I too took two Orange Mambos from Mikes yesterday and went out to the dam, where it was too hot to stand by shore like an idiot, but not too hot to wade in (for two hours or so).
By the way, nice pirating Streamer, I've yet to meet you but I was picturing Wallace Beery all the way I also caught "The Shadow" in an earlier message, perhaps you spent some time sitting in front of an Atwater-Kent during your childhood?
Remember folks, my reports/stories show my lack of fishing skills but what doesn't kill you makes you...something. I waded out a good distance from the dual culvits and tied on a Kennebec Karrot and went to squeeze on some sinking fly junk. Unfortunately, the plastic cap had cracked and there was sinking junk oozing from vest pocket down to the lower pockets where I keep my eyeglasses and camera. Anyway, there was plenty of goop to put on the fly and for a while I was trying to squeeze some excess off the fly because it looked like my dog sneezed on it.
Moving on, I had 2 brief hits before hooking a bow. I knew it was a bow because I saw the color pattern when it jumped and came off the hook just before getting into net range. Anyway, I was quite happy with the new fly. Around 8pm there were several rises occuring around me. I have never been around a feeding frenzy to know what a lot of rises look like but there was one every 2-3 minutes. This prompted me to try a dry and I tried on what I think was a blue winged dun or something close enough to fool a color-blind man. By the third cast I hooked a 10-12in bow. It took some line and eventually I brought it in close enough to net. I then reached around to get my net, but it was difficult to squeeze the clamp off because I still had goop residue on my hands. While trying to net the fish, I got the metal clamp of the net caught on the tippet and the @$%^& net snapped the fish off at the tippet. If any of you were on the river at the time, I was the guy cursing up a storm. While staring at the net, my reptilian brain was in a battle with my cerebral brain as to wheather I was going to throw that net as far as I could, or just chalk it up to a lesson learned. I still have the %$&@#$ net.
While stumbling to wade out, I had my fly still floating in the water. When I started reeling in the line to end the day, I had a chubb on and didn't know it. I proudly brought that chubb to hand and declared my evening skunk-free. I left around 9pm with some intermittent rises still occurring. |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 3:36:01 PM
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Thanks, Capt.,for the flies you left at Mike's. They're very well-tied. However, in light of this fantastic new discovery, I may never get a chance to use them...
PS: Wasn't there also an Orange Dreamsicle, or am I under the Shadow's influence again?
PPS: Buffet should be proud, Hunter. You done good. |
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gunner
Frequent Contributor
USA
906 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 4:58:14 PM
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| It is apparently impossible to get your hands on one of Selene's Demons They're gone in a flash. |
“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
Mortimer Adler (American Philosopher)
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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1980 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 5:06:02 PM
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That's right. Mike ordered 3.5 dozen of them (42 flies); they arrived in the morning, and were cleaned out by 3 in the afternoon. He's expecting another delivery today, I think. If they don't get here, and you're not in line, then no Mango Marauders for you.
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Mike Holt
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USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 5:09:43 PM
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Yep, I ordered more and they are here - sorry Gunner - they came right after you left. I put some aside for you so if you don't get a couple at Chandler Pond I'll have some for you.  |
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Neal
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 8:21:00 PM
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Mike
I sense an opportunity to test the economic laws of supply and demand. For those of us who are not close enough to drop in and pick up a few of this scarce resource, why don't you put together a lot of four (or whatever), set a minimum price if necessary and start an auction sticky to run concurrent with the naming contest. You may find that you are not charging enough.
If this doesn't work for you, no problem. At the rate you are selling them, it won't be long before you will be able to pick them from the trees and off the bottom at Shawmut.
As for names, I will stick with Dumaine's Orange Fox. Trying to come up with more than one makes my head hurt.
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Rob F
Active Member
Canada
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 8:28:56 PM
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I too have had a fish break off on one of Mrs. Dumaine's creations. I'm glad I went in early and scooped up 4.
I gave my neighbor one, and introduced it as Dumaine's pot of gold. I told him if he fished it long enough, he'd find it at the end of a rainbow.
...and then he went bass fishing
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specialist_ed
Starting Member
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 9:26:54 PM
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| How about the "Stepchild" |
Edited by - specialist_ed on 07/15/2006 9:29:37 PM |
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Kevin Karnes
Frequent Contributor
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 08:16:44 AM
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I kinda like the thought of having the creators name
("tied in" no pun intended) to the name some how. It always makes it easier for me to remember the origin and history of a pattern.
I would like to submit "Selene's Serpent" |
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
USA
1980 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2006 : 08:46:05 AM
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If MOONSHINE was made from mangoes, I suspect that this is how it would turn out. Sweet. Irresistible. Enticing. Wickedly addictive.
So rare and exotic that its value is weighed in lives lost in getting it to you, spawning a dark subculture of illicit distillers, smugglers, and, yes, pirates in this day and age. With every shipment of bootlegged booty, the price goes up, and the maddened crowd clamors for more and yet more, until everything: every dollar; every life; every hope; every dream -- is totally consumed by the fire kindled by the want of this good stuff. The desire for Mango Moonshine drives us all...out of control. |
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stonefly
Frequent Contributor
USA
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 08:55:57 AM
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| Awesome fly and as the "redbands" seem to favor them; they look like Bodacious Orange to me. |
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Capt.Hook
Active Member
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 11:57:34 AM
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Boy, unless some limit is put on the number of names one person can give, some unsavories around here are gonna keep stuffing the ballot box!
I think that little fly is as cute as the Dickens
"Why it's Ol' Fezziwig bless his heart, Ol' Fezziwig alive again"
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Streamer
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Mike Holt
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Alan
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USA
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Posted - 07/17/2006 : 09:03:11 AM
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| How about Selenes Fly????? |
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titleguy
Big Fish in a Small Pond
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Posted - 07/17/2006 : 09:19:22 AM
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| BTW, Streamer, there is a Jimmy Buffett song called "Dreamsicle". |
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