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Onthevise.com is gone!
By: Vacherieboy Date: August 26, 2017, 3:52 pm
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I was going to look for some shad patterns so I went to one of
my first places to look, onthevise.com, and well it's not there
anymore. Why are all the good places to look for new fly
patterns going away? Also, does anyone have a good shad pattern
other than clousers?
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: Catchcoma Date: August 27, 2017, 3:30 pm
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Sadly, OnTheVise.com is one of many fly tying and fly fishing
websites that have bitten the dust in the last 3 years.
Facebook has hurt forums, but not so much conventional sites or
fly pattern databases (FPDs). YouTube and Vimeo may have taken
away some of the traffic from FPDs, but again I think of video
as a compliment to fly pattern databases, not as a competitor.
The real problem has been that a lot of folks started up some
great websites thanks to the help of web designers, but either
lacked the expertise, time, money, or successor / additional
person needed to maintain those sites. One of my favorite sites
went down last year. I met the owner at the Atlanta Fly Fishing
Show and he told me it was just too much work. When I said, did
you use a CMS (content management system), his response was
"What is that?". Nuff said! ::)
That's one reason I went to a hosted site (Blogger) and hosted
forum for the -new- laflyfish.com. It's simple enough for my
9yo niece to maintain. Hopefully it doesn't come down to her,
but if it did, we're covered! :D
Meanwhile, I feel your pain. Several of my favorite FTDs have
gone pecan!
Orvis has a very good tying database with videos and written
instructions:
HTML http://howtoflyfish.orvis.com/fly-tying-videos
Ward Bean has a great site for warmwater fly patterns:
HTML http://warmwaterflytyer.com
Hopefully others can add their favorites.
As for the Fly Patterns page on this website, I'm in the process
of rebuilding it. The issue was, that on the old website, each
pattern was on a sub-page. Blogger doesn't allow sub-pages.
But there's a few tricks to get around it, and I'm testing each
of them out to see what works best. Give me another month or
so.
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: Catchcoma Date: August 27, 2017, 4:12 pm
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Forgot to answer the 2nd question.
I use six patterns for bass schooling on shad:
1. Pensacola Clouser - my variation on the Clouser Minnow. A
regular Clouser will also work as well.
2. Crease Fly = when the fish are busting the surface, can't be
beat!
3. Gummy Minnow - don't laugh. It works great! Strip hard, then
countdown a few seconds, strip hard again.
4. Joe's Simple Shad - check out this page on Ohio FlyFish
HTML http://www.flyfishohio.com/Simple_Shad.htm
5. Coma Spoon - in pearl color, or pearl/chartreuse (use
chartreuse marker to color half the pearl body before applying
epoxy).
6. Jake's Shad - this is a new one in my arsenal. I saw it
tied last October at the FFI Southern Conclave by a young tier
named Jake Unterreiner. I'll try and post a photo of it soon.
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: Vacherieboy Date: August 27, 2017, 9:07 pm
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Thanks Catch. I have ramped up production on crease flies since
they work so well last weekend. I have been making them in sizes
ranging from 1/0 down to #6. Those things are easy to make and
the colors are limited to the color nail polish I can find.
I'll look into some of those other you suggested.
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: musicdoc Date: August 27, 2017, 9:28 pm
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I have been tying these in a shad pattern for the shad on the
lakes by my house.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfg_TVy4-Og&t=617s
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfg_TVy4-Og&t=617s
That one rides hook end up. I really like action the rabbit
zonker has in the water.
The next one is lighter, rides higher in the water and rides
hook down.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY-mPepM9k&t=12s
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY-mPepM9k&t=12s
I find the bass like it too.
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: noahvale Date: August 28, 2017, 10:21 am
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A lot of the pages are available at archive.org:
HTML https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.onthevise.com
HTML https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.onthevise.com
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Re: Onthevise.com is gone!
By: kjnengr Date: September 15, 2017, 9:38 am
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You can add the fly of the month (Kirk's Rattle Rouser) from
the the home page for a good shad pattern.
HTML http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Icsd8dgij9A/WZimxKsIlgI/AAAAAAAACaY/FmE4DBJvsV8bQbJLBiJKzBEuuYYcFAUhACK4BGAYYCw/s292/a_rattle_rousers.jpg
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