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Hello Harold,

I see that you are interested in the highly effective technique Czech Nymphing. What I also see that more and more fishers become increasingly positive about this technique.
A lot of fishers viewed negative about Czech Nymphing,because they say it was a stupid way of fishing with a long rod and three very heavy nymphs and a leader with the length of the rod: 9 foot. Casting with this combination was not possible. Therefore Czech Nymphing was also called with ugly names like "bugging".

When Czech Nymphing was promoted more than a decade ago by the highly respected Oliver Edwards, fishers were amazed by the results and of the effectiveness. But the Czech Nymphing technique is constantly improved by flyfishers from all over the world but especially of course the Czech and Polish competitors.

Nowadays Czech Nymphing has been developed into a light and more effective way of fishing. In my opinion is this light way of nymphing also as amazing as the classic Czech Nymphing was when it was introduced by Oliver Edwards.
How this light Czech Nymphing works is to be seen on the website www.czechnymphing.com
There you see the most important promotor of this technique the "River God", mr. Jiri Klima. It is a demo of the DVD that shows how Jiri fishes with a #2 line and rod (!) of 8'3" foot, two weighted nymphs and a very short leader of 5 foot. Within 10 minutes Jiri catches 10 fish.
Special on this light way of Czech Nymphing, is that Jiri is able to change immediately from short line nymphing (Czech Nymphing) into long line nymphing by only a few false casts. Now Czech Nymphing is more effective than it was in the classic way. And it has become a light and delicate technique of flyfishing.

On this unique DVD, Jiri also gives a tying instruction of his four favourite nymphs, including the Czech Nymph (see how Jiri makes his dubbing by spinning with his fingers!) and the devastating Jig-nymph.

At this moment it is the only DVD about this new way of Czech Nymphing.

Hopefully I gave you and other fellow GFF members new information about the development of the Czech Nymphing technique.

TL,
Lipan

Harold Ray wrote:
In your opinion, what are the best Czech Nymph books or CDs/DVDs, and where can they be ordered? I have really gotten interested in tying these and would like to add some good books and DVDs about tying and fishing these flies, but I am having difficulty finding good ones.

There are several printed in Europe or the Czech Republic in English that I cannot find on any website. Does anyone have a good source of these?

I did just order this book, Czech Nymph and Other Related Fly Fishing Methods, from Czech Nymph, an online store, http://www.czechnymph.com/en/index.php?&show_page=eshop&show_page_mode=full&psection=10.2.&product_id=146 in the Republic, and I also got some materials from Siman, Ltd., http://shop.siman.cz/, yesterday, both nice sites. I'd like to get other books by Karel Krivanec in addition to the one above, and books of other Czech authors writing about Czech Nymphs.

I would appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Ray

Submitted by John Templar on

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I read this review and ordered the book. I tied all 10 flies without a hastle. Too many fly patterns are intimidating to the novice. This is a great book for the beginner!

Nice pix Hans. I love the markings on that first Sea Trout, so unusual, never seen anything quite like it.

On my immediate wish list is Arctic Char and Wild Rainbows then when I have enough money, amago and yamame.

Salt - Magnus
Fresh - Daddylonglegs and goldhead GRHE

I almost always get fish on these flies, regardless of where I fish.

Submitted by Patrick 1737246395 on

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Nice story,
I would not like to mention the casts that I made to catch my third seatrout.
The first two came after my second day at Langeland.
The next after two years.

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I am looking for the Tiger Fish where the cells in the fishes eye heals it self.Also being used to
try on Diabetes patients for there eyes.

Just like in brewing beer, leader tyers should stand by the motto of "relax, take it easy, have a beer!" The leader formulas are to be used as guidelines in building your own. Don't worry if the formula suggests one diameter or two that you don't have. Just substitute with the next closest diameter material and you should see no dramatic effects on the leader performance.

Chris,

I had the same issue when I looked. I now fixed a few character set glitches, and it seems to work in the store AND the subscription section.

Let me know whether it's OK in your end too,

Martin

We tried also two times... First time we did some good, but my body with camera is not flyfisher or fisherman, so he knew how, but he didnt know what... Second time was much more better, but it wants red line(in our case)...I choose few good...

For saltwater fishing I would choose orange streamer made from polar fox, orange spectra dubbing and orange cock.

For stillwater fishing montana lure is my first choice.

For river fishing it should be small CDC sedge tied on hook # 14 or 16.

Kasper,

If I had one only for all the fishing I'm likely to bump into it would be a gold beaded hare's ear nymph. That will catch almost anything that swims.

For stream fishing I would choose a similar nymph or a CDC&Elk dry fly.

For saltwater I would choose something like a Grey Frede. That would catch everything from trout to bonefish.

Martin

Submitted by Chris on

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Martin,

Thanks for the response. I have no problem when looking at the entry for glbalflyfisher in the iTunes store. The problem that I am experiencing is in my subscribed-to podcasts in the podcasts section of my iTunes library. It cannot seem to update there anymore. I have removed it and resubscribed to it, but the problem persists. I greatly enjoy this podcast!
Thanks,
Chris.

Submitted by alvaro on

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With this fly I go fishing in León, Spain with very good results, It is a great fly, Alvaro

Chris and others,

We're having some server problems right now... the may effect the feeds and when iTunes reads a faulty feed it seems like it takes some time before it reestablishes the correct feed. I see it fine in iTunes right now and can download and listen to the podcasts.

If this problem persists, please let me know.

Martin

Harold, in case of any problem, just contact me and I will discuss it with the guys from Hends. Regards. Lukas

Thanks, Pike. I checked the site and saw the book. I couldn't understand how to purchase from the site, so I e-mailed the shop to get information. Hopefully, I'll be buying a copy shortly.

The book really looks interesting. I like the pictures and format.

Thanks for letting me know about this!

Ray

Submitted by joseph forte on

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Hello, I will be in Tuscany at the end of March. I am wondering if there are any flyfishing opportunities at that time of the year. I will not be to far from Arrezzo.

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