LE VIEUX MOUCHEUR
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FLY-FISHING FOR PIKE by Paul Le Gall, translated by Claude BELLOIR Other lures in modular systems The Moustache streamer is devised to be fished with the sink and draw method. To do so, it's necessary that the leader and tip of the line should sink, which isn't always the case as when there are only a few 'windows' among patches of floating weeds or lily pads for example.
To fish like this on the surface,
rabbit fur is the suitable material as the fur shivers in a colourful halo
thanks to the unparalleled body that water gives to this fur. Of course the
angler may add some strands of Crystal hair for his own pleasure only however,
as the use of brill isn't necessary here since the lure can't and therefore
needn't be seen from far away. Its sliding and climbing on the lily pads or
leaves, its paddling in the small pockets of water, are enough for the pike to
notice it. This kind of popper can also be fished when the
water depth above weed patches or the bottom does not allow the marked sink and
draw of the “Moustache”. The “
Iskis ” poppers can be used
to fish for bass too. Fishing poppers in such conditions is very
exciting. The gaudiest excesses and most extravagant colour matches are possible
as only a good visibility of the lure among weeds, as well as working it
properly, seem to matter. There are two other situations where I give up
the Moustache and use the Dutch streamer “Piker's Point”' by
Guido Vinck, modified with a weed guard and a link; first when it's essential to
cast out very far, as the lack of aerodynamics rules my streamer out altogether,
and secondly when a huge lure, made up of a series of linked streamers, has to
be cast to a supposedly enormous fish. For example, I hooked my record fish with
a lure made up of two Guido Vinck's streamers with a long tail, the whole rig
measuring a little over 30cm.
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