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I fished the Beaverk

I fished the Beaverkill with Steve two Mays ago at the Mayfly Club meeting on the river. I can attest that Steve, using his "Cam" fly outfished some rather well known personalities who were with us and who are excellent fishermen. I know he has pictures of a 23 and 21 incher he caught and released on this fly. He not only took the largest fish caught the two days I was there, but the most fish, by probably a 3 to 1 ratio.. Are his flies worth the time it takes to tie them?? You better believe they are! : Tom, just give them a try and I think you may want to rethink your comments...

great reading very i

great reading very imformitive going to give it a go , like the photos this is certianly going in my favorites, glad i found it .
many thanks

We were all fighting

We were all fighting the wind. But I think the only one practising true "over-the-wrong-shoulder" casting, and doing so in good form, was Jesper. I wish I had trained my wrong-shoulder casting as much as he had.

Tom,
I think you wi

Tom,
I think you will find Steves flies do last a very long time. I have had 17 fish on one Ammonite nymph and at least 10 fish to the CAM. They do take slightly longer to make but after a couple of attempts they are really quick and simple. I spoke to Steve and followed his advice "just follow the step by step". No one knows if the extra effort is worth it after all only the fish can answer that one. But on results alone i can usually bag a few on the hardest of days using some or all of the above.
"dry flies and wet wellies" Dale

Great Site!

Great Site!
I met Bob in 1991 and He was tying his Surf Candy than. I think it was either 1990 or 1991, his Candies were featured in American Fly Tyer.
I think this is one of the nicest sites I have seen in years!
Steve

this shrimps is extr

this shrimps is extremely nice...
i never saw a shrimps so live like this....
can i know about what hair you using only?

Great web-site thank

Great web-site thanks for all the tips. What’s the difference between McFlylon, and McFlyfoam, if any? Thanks Ron

Great commentary & e

Great commentary & exciting finish. Very enjoyable.

Those guys are SPOIL

Those guys are SPOILED !!! Mikey Weir just gave me a sneak peek at some images from a recent Taimen expedition. I do look fwd to the NZ stuff too. Expect more from any of these mad men for sure.

Sign me up........al

Sign me up........always in for a great cap....

Thanks a lot for the

Thanks a lot for the GREAT Presentations. Will be tremendous fun tying these this winter.

Years ago, I've been

Years ago, I've been using almost the same system as your Slinky. I used it for flyfishing for barbel. I fished the system for several days (...weeks). I think that this system is useless in rivers with rocks and stones. "My Slinky" constantly snagged the bottom of the river, no drift was completed. It is also very difficult to cast on a long line.

Mike,

You're one

Mike,

You're one of our great supporters. Thanks!

I don't know about shirts... I'll look into the CafePress thing. Others have pointed in the same direction. I prefer stitching and they only do print, but it might be an option anyway. And they have a ton of other product types.

Martin

I still prefer a sma

I still prefer a small shooting head made of some fast sinking fly line. A heavy slinkie at the end of a long fly line cannot be easy to cast.

Perfect! I love asp

Perfect! I love asp fishing!

This is one of the m

This is one of the most effective flies , l have ever used for late fall midge fishing. lt took fish when no other patterns whould. your right about the wing looking so real underwater, the big trout in the BOW RIVER in calgary sure thought it was the real mccoy. thanks for the great pattern.

I thought that was a

I thought that was a very clever idea.
Worth a try.

Great tutorial! Than

Great tutorial! Thanks for the pointers!

Regards,

David

Hello there....

Yes, we call them "soft craw" in the US. They're actually quite pretty to look at, with tints of blue, green, but mostly gray. You can tiie a Skip's Dad with gray haretron dubbing to give it that soft craw look.

Cheers
--Mike

Will you be doing th

Will you be doing the patterns in the back of the book as well? If so I would like to contribute.

FYI, Brass has tripp

FYI, Brass has trippled in price this year and swivels are almost 50% more now. I like to use a number 10 black.

Are you getting shir

Are you getting shirts as well? I would buy a sweat shirt if you got those made. Cafe Press will do a line of shirts, caps and mugs on a small run. Look the guy's stuff on troutnut.com. Mike

Great Flies, great p

Great Flies, great pictures, great pages! Thank you so much for presenting such a nice www and please dont stop! Maybe there are coming up some wonderful seatrout themes? Best wishes from Germany, Mirko

Just a small suggest

Just a small suggestion - once you have sealed one end of the cord, push the point of the pliers in the other end and just heat the end of the cord to meld the frayed ends. Dropping the sinkers in is now much easier, then finnish as above.