2012 Fantasy pike fly challenge: Last of the tubes

2012 fantasy pike fly challenge

This will also be a strict catch & release affair!

Rules
Players pick 4 flies for the season

12 flies to choose from (Found in the left sidebar)
6 tubes
6 hooked
6 substitute flies (3 x tubes & 3 x hooked)

5 flies will be tied for each specific fly design, and will be used through out the season. Once each fly becomes unusable to fish with, it will be replaced with a new one until all five are finished. Flies will be regularily photographed to show their condition throughout the Fantasy league challenge.

Points tally
Points will be tallied up at the end of each week and added to the league table in the sidebar so players can see where they are standing
1 point will be given for each fish caught
2 extra points will be awarded for a fish over 75cm (2,46 ft)
4 extra points will be awarded for a fish over 85cm (2,78 ft)
6 extra points will be awarded for a fish over 1 meter (3,28 ft)

I will alternate between using tube flies one days and hooked flies the next and each fly will be changed after each fish caught which will even out the playing field so to say!

Substitutions
1. Substitutions will be submitted as and when I feel the need
to change the playing field. for example certain flies will perform better during different times of the year.
2. 3 x substitutions will take place throughout the course of
the season.
3. Each player gets to choose one tube and one hooked fly
they would like to change. The flies that get the most vote
for that specific substitution period get used!

Play offs!
1. On the 30th September all the points will be tallied up and
the top 10 players will go into the October play offs which
will end on the 31st October.

2. All the flies will be brought back into play for each of the
ten players.

3. Players can then choose to either keep the
ones they have or change to other models during the play
offs.

All entrants need to be submitted by the latest 15th May.
Send your entry name to uivelon_kierros@yahoo.co.uk with (2012 Fantasy pike fly challenge) as a header

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Last of the tubes

So these are the last two bucktail Pulse tubeflies I'll be starting the season with. Both simple constructions yet very effective. Blue has been probably one of the most prolific Spring colours for me here over last 3 seasons around the island, and accounts for 65% of the fish I catch. Its not the best Autumn colour though but this might be one of those flies that you could substitute at the league progresses.

Another bucktail Pulse tubefly, this time in Black/white and flash & is slighty longer than the blue version. A personal favourite of mine and again one I'm sure will catch fish throught Spring, Summer & Autumn. all my tube fies have been tied onto Aluminium tubeology tubes so I can change the cone heads for different weights so as I can fish at different depths. I'll be showing their construction later in the season and why I decided to use tubeology's ally tubes instead of plastic.

So there we have it....all the flies except three extra substitute flies which I will add within the next couple of weeks. Get choosing and emial your team name and four flies to uivelon_kierros@yahoo.co.uk

2012 Fantasy pike fly challenge