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I thought this site

I thought this site was for fly fisherman not spin fishers.

That fly is just a c

That fly is just a corruption of a chernobyl ant.

thx, very good and c

thx, very good and clear in detail

Re: Video Podcast

Rybolov,

I'll pay you ten times what we pay everybody else, of course! No problem.
Mailed you a preview link of the article with the latest images too.
It looks good and will go online in a week or so.

Martin

Jason, We don't s

Jason,

We don't sell flies here. You will have to ask in a flyshop or find a source online.

Martin

Video Podcast

You'll pay me for my time, right? 😄 At least double what I get now, so 200% of 0 is um... 0.

I *could* do a video podcast, but would you be happy with some instructions and pictures of each step?

Hi taff

Hi taff

Visit http://www.medflyfish.com/ for more info regarding SWFF.

Setting the hook!

Hi Kasper

Hi Kasper

Is your trip to Toscana still on? If you let me know where you will be based so perhaps I can give you some advice. As an anticipation you can fish great Browns and even Grayling.

Let me know!

Setting the Hook!

Sea trout are eaten

Sea trout are eaten by many predators, mainly seals, comorrants, otters, herons, porpoises and larger birds of prey like fishing eagles.

Smaller fish (fry and smolt) are eaten by larger fish including its own kin and salmon.

Martin

Great pattern

I have been fishing this pattern for about 1 1/2 weeks and have had some of the best strikes (especially when dead drifting). I have taken approximately 50% of my fish on htis pattern and tried olive under belly and tan wing. This fly definitely attracts strikes from some pretty finicky Connecticut trout which have been pressured a lot this spring.

Good luck as you get them out and fish them. I have noticed that as they are ending the drift and floundering and rising is where they get gobbled up!

Almost doesn't seem fair.

Podcast also

Hey you two schemers. Be sure to get another "podcast video" of tying this tidy morsel. I very much enjoyed the other video podcast and have been productive with the pattern recently... (approximately 50% of my fish taken off this pattern)

It would be a Great article, go for it.

were could i get a b

were could i get a box of bass bugs like whats shone? how much?

Who eats the sea tro

Who eats the sea trout?

Hello Jari,

Hello Jari,

I'm very sorry: my formulation was not right!
Yes, i mean the epoxy and NOT the thread!
Most of this problem appears on the top-part of the rod; the thin part!
Yesterday i first put a thin layer of epoxy and later another one....
The results where much better then before (with 1 layer)

Quite right: I need to practice 😉

thanks a lot,

Nico

iam from Argentina,

iam from Argentina, i live in the Patagonia and i new in the flyfhishing, but this fly it's amazing... my congratulations to the warsmith! There is a seccition with tying videos y this page? thanks...

Worth?

i have the 1984 transkei fly fishing stamps 5 of them mounted in a frame, any idea what they worth, mint cond

Hey Nico.

Hey Nico.

If I understand you question right, it is not the thread that forms into "rugby balls", but rather the epoxy or varnish. It does take a bit of practice to get the epoxy, which I use, to flow evenly across the wrappings.
But try to use a smaller amount of epoxy and see if that isn't sufficient, you can always add a second layer afterwards, and the smaller the amount, the easier the epoxy will seem evenly applied.

If it really is the threads themselves that form into rugby balls, it could mean that you wrap the rod WAY too hard, so hard that it might damage the blank!! I usually tension the thread with my fingers and try to use the same force on the thread as i would holding a pencil, so not very much actually.

Hope that helps.

Jari

Shellan,

It's a c

Shellan,

It's a coho salmon caught and photographed in British Columbia, Canada.

Martin

where was this photo

where was this photo taken? what kind of fish

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info. I am a Trout, Sea Trout and Salmon angler fishing in the borders of Northumberland and Scotland. I am a Bonefish vigin. Hopefully by the time I return home from holiday I will have caught some Hawaiian Bonefish.
I have been in touch with Nervous Waters to book a guided session.

That is a brown trou

That is a brown trout right? It's so amazing how there can be so much diversity, in colorations and sizes, in one species of fish.

Thanks Ripley! It was

Thanks Ripley! It was definitely a great trip and thank you, Steve, Martin, Kim and Bill for showing Nina and I some beautiful Danish spring streams. :) It was too bad Nina and I only stayed for a day, we really enjoyed the bed and breakfast (and found out Martin can also cook!). That first evening, Bill and I returned to the bridge and found a bunch of fish rising in front of us. We managed to lost just about all our hook-ups. 😢

Nina and I spent Saturday afternoon at Aqua, which was definitely well worth it. We then went up to Simested River and managed to connect with a few small brown trout. :)

Hopefully next summer we can repeat this again. ;)

Article?

Sure, article away.

Sometime when I can remember, I'll get some crayfish pictures. I was going to go today, but we just got a big dump of rain on my way home from work.

Daniel,

Don't wor

Daniel,

Don't worry about the "Extras" for now - focus instead on everything else, particularly the bolded items. As someone who certainly isn't an expert, but who was in your situation a couple of years ago (I've taken two fly tying courses offered by my local Trout Unlimited chapter) I must completely agree with the author. He has listed the most common fly tying materials - and you truly are better off buying them individually. Don't buy them all at once - pick a couple of patterns you wish to tie (such as an Adams dry fly and a Muddler Minnow streamer - the latter was recommended to me as THE ONE FLY to tie if one had to practice as it involves so many techniques) and the materials needed.

Books: either don't buy one (take a look at the section called "Beginner's Fly Tying" at www.flyanglersonline.com) or get the recently released "Benchside Introduction to Fly Tying" by Leeson and Schollmeyer. The book will help you with material selection, too.

Threads: I recommend Uni-Thread, especially if you're a lefty. It's stronger for its diameter than regular nylon thread.

Kits: stay away from them, or if you really must have one, get the materials-only kits. (I started with a materials-only kit in order to save money, but even then eventually I only used half to two-thirds of it, the rest was either too low-quality or not useful for tying trout flies.) By all means, do not get a kit/cheap vise - the only good vise under $100 is the Danvise (Danica vise;) I have seen friends' vises from kits become almost useless - and very frustrating - after a few dozen flies.

Good luck!

P.S. Don't get into fly tying if you think it's going to save you money in the long run - it won't.