As many of you already know, the camo outfit depicted in Afish's photo of "Salontheprowl" is known as a "ghillie suit." They were popularized some years ago by military sniper units in need of extreme camoflouge. Like many military clothing and outdoor gear, it gradually becomes trendy with civilain outdoor enthusiasts. Personally, I don't see hardly any civilian hunting scenario that would realistically require this level of camo. Just another fad.
Brook Trout Tactics(next level)
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Dave,
I can see you wearing a ghillie suit to sidle up real close to those brookies hiding in BS. Just see if you can find a watercress pattern and stay low....they won't stand a chance!
I can see you wearing a ghillie suit to sidle up real close to those brookies hiding in BS. Just see if you can find a watercress pattern and stay low....they won't stand a chance!
Me too....picker bushes. I've also heard them called "stickers".
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I have buddy who lives on an island off the coast of Alaska who will custom make ghillie suits if you send him a picture of the local foliage and a few leaves. He makes them for the island and sells them to bird watchers, as well as for personal use hunting reindeer on the tundra. The only snag is that shipping from BFA is a tad 'spensive.
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pcray1231
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Many ghillie suits are to be customized as you move. Basically a mesh with a lot of safety pins, you pick the local plant life and attach it. Often there's strips of canvas and fabric to attach in various colors (customizable). Usually some combination of the 2 extremes.
Be the bush. hehe.
Fishidiot, in any hunting situation, the better the camo, the better off you are. Now, what you're willing to pay (money and hassle) is another story altogether. I don't imagine those things are comfortable, and to me, hunting is supposed to be fun.
What I don't get is why so many retail camo patterns have UV brighteners to make it look "sharper", when many of the prey animals see in the UV range. Might honestly be better off in street clothes.
Be the bush. hehe.
Fishidiot, in any hunting situation, the better the camo, the better off you are. Now, what you're willing to pay (money and hassle) is another story altogether. I don't imagine those things are comfortable, and to me, hunting is supposed to be fun.
What I don't get is why so many retail camo patterns have UV brighteners to make it look "sharper", when many of the prey animals see in the UV range. Might honestly be better off in street clothes.
Acristickid
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Nothing like having a freezing cold face from sled riding for 2 hours and then ending one of runs into a jaggerbush. Feels sooo good on your face.
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Since I started using a Cabela's leafy suit a few years ago I am convinced they make a difference for deer and turkey by distorting your silouette. I'd have to think they could help on stream as well. Problem is it's made of a burlap (sp) iand I wouldn't even consider trying to go through brush with it. Maybe packing it in though.
I think the idea of having a special hat and treating it so you can crash through the brush is very cool. I'm not sure I'll do it, but I'm glad some fisherman thought of that. Maybe this where the term "Jagermeister" came from, Master of the Jaggers!
Once I was fishing with a friend who had probably the most over-stuffed big green Orvis vest I've ever seen. We came to some "jagger bushes" and he reached in the vest and pulled out a pair of shears like you use for trimming shrubbery, and started clearing the path.
Once I was fishing with a friend who had probably the most over-stuffed big green Orvis vest I've ever seen. We came to some "jagger bushes" and he reached in the vest and pulled out a pair of shears like you use for trimming shrubbery, and started clearing the path.
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I wear a pair of Shannon Bug Barrier pants over my wading pants or waders, or even my shorts, if I'm wet wading. They serve two purposes - first, they protect the legs or waders from medium length jaggers, crown nettles, etc. and second, being camo, they break up the starkness of beige waders, or white sparrow legs. Actually, thirdly, they provide an irrational protection from snakes, when walking through waste high ferns, weeds, or other leafy matter.
The pants have a honeycombed plastic layer, which then have a nylon fabric weave on the outside. The outside layer is still a mesh fabric, but the threads are woven close enough that a camo pattern is effective when viewed a few feet back. I guess the original idea was to create a physical air space barrier, to prevent mosquitos from landing on you and biting you, but I find the pants more useful for camo while fishing, and avoiding crown nettles while hiking, and the good thing is being mesh, they don't overheat you at all.
For awhile, my fishing cap was a red plaid wool Woolrich ball cap, which was not waterproof. So I had switched that up to an Outdoor Research Seattle Sombrero (blue/black) which is waterproof Gore-Tex. However, in terms of camo, that's kind of like Winnie the Pooh using a blue balloon to blend in with the sky when he's trying to get honey from bees in the tree, so I bought a couple of supposedly waterproof camo hats off of Ebay this past summer. I like the idea of treating the hat with some adhesive for plowing through jaggers. My summer brookie getup is modeled in my avatar, and sometimes, it results in a brown being caught as well 🙂
Links:
Bug Barrier pants (unfortunately, no longer available)
Hats (search for Aussie hat, got one mesh for summer, and one non-mesh for fall and spring)
The pants have a honeycombed plastic layer, which then have a nylon fabric weave on the outside. The outside layer is still a mesh fabric, but the threads are woven close enough that a camo pattern is effective when viewed a few feet back. I guess the original idea was to create a physical air space barrier, to prevent mosquitos from landing on you and biting you, but I find the pants more useful for camo while fishing, and avoiding crown nettles while hiking, and the good thing is being mesh, they don't overheat you at all.
For awhile, my fishing cap was a red plaid wool Woolrich ball cap, which was not waterproof. So I had switched that up to an Outdoor Research Seattle Sombrero (blue/black) which is waterproof Gore-Tex. However, in terms of camo, that's kind of like Winnie the Pooh using a blue balloon to blend in with the sky when he's trying to get honey from bees in the tree, so I bought a couple of supposedly waterproof camo hats off of Ebay this past summer. I like the idea of treating the hat with some adhesive for plowing through jaggers. My summer brookie getup is modeled in my avatar, and sometimes, it results in a brown being caught as well 🙂
Links:
Bug Barrier pants (unfortunately, no longer available)
Hats (search for Aussie hat, got one mesh for summer, and one non-mesh for fall and spring)
