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If you hold the rod

Brad,

If you hold the rod with your left hand, the handle should be on the right side of the reel so that you can wind with your right hand. Looking at the reel from the handle side, it should wind the line in when turned clockwise and spin counterclockwise when you pull line off the reel. Remember that the reel hangs under the rod and the reel foot is up and that the line comes out from the underside of the reel. Any braking action should also happen when you pull line off the reel.

Martin

Ralph,

As most on

Ralph,

As most on zonkers, the tail can wrap around the hook, but I haven't found it to be a massive problem, and even with the fairly long tail it works fine for me. It happens, but I check the fly regularly and untangle it if there's trouble.
As usual when fishing heavier flies and stuff that can tangle, I can recommend a slower casting stroke. That keeps things from tangling quite as much as the wildly energetic double hauls that people seem to love these days - at least on our coasts.

Martin

Florian,

Florian,

I never tied or fished any of the double hook/wire thingamajigs. I'd hate tying them and honestly, most of them don't look that convincing once they get in the water because they use pretty stiff wire. I have seen some tied with marabou and spun spinning line (GSP, Dyneema, Fireline type) and they look OK.

The steelhead fly called the MOAL (Mother Of All Leeches) is also pretty convincing. I'm working on an article about the MOAL. I wouldn't probably tie and fish it myself on a regular basis, but it's pretty successful in the northwestern US and BC.

For my own use I stand by the Woolly Bugger style, the Omoe Brush and the zonker pattern that I tied for the first time some years ago.

Martin

I wanted to say than

I wanted to say thanks for showing me, and everyone else just how easy it can be to make great flies! Two thumbs up my friend!

Another great video.

Another great video. Thanks so much!!!

Very good video. I w

Very good video. I will tie this one later tonight! Thanks

Martin,

Martin,
thanks for the reply, this work thing is geting to all of us.

I have just returned from aone day fly in and out deal to our head office and am hangin out in a hotel because I am going to teach a little about fish to nutritional students tomorow.

Thanks for sharing the worm pattern as well, there are fairly complicated patterns on double hook rigs connected by fishing line or wire which one can get a knot in the fingers while trying to ty them. Yours looks very pragmatic,
TL
Florian

Martin, very nice an

Martin, very nice and easy fly. I like it.

Btw: Very good idea with The Mundane Fly Project. I am looking forward to see next flies.

if i'm holding the r

if i'm holding the rod in my left hand the winder is on the right side of the reel which way is the reel suppose to spin?

I am a just starting

I am a just starting out fly fisher and tyer. I love to watch and very slowly learn the art of fly tying.
Thank for this great web site

Hello!
A very simpl

Hello!
A very simple and versatile fly as I like it most, being more a fisher than a tyer.
But doesn't it have the drawback of fouling much too often?!?
Ralph Hertling
Berlin

Florian,

Florian,

Sorry I'm a ittle late with a reply here, but things have been hectic workwise.

Regarding the worm hatches, I actualy don't think that it's temperature alone, but rather the length of the day and the moon phase in combination with temperatures that has the greatest influence. I have no specific knowledge about when to expect the first clam worms, but here in Denmark we see them in late February and during March, and only after certain circumstances meet.

I personally only experienced a real worm hatch once or twice.

Martin

Peter,

This is no

Peter,

This is not a club of any sort, but votes simply don't grow on trees. We cannot force people to vote, and as long as your picture doen's have three votes, it has no score.

Regarding bad scores it does happen the images are treated unfairly by multiple really bad votes (or the opposite), which I control on a regular basis and clean up, but apart from that the voting generally seems to be OK and quite fair for most images.

Of course having more than 3,000 images and 45,000 votes makes it a bit cumbersome to check everything manually.

...and I can only see one picture on this email-address and five others with the name Pete Bratt and a different address - a mac.com-address. Are they yours and do you want them listed under one name/account?

Martin

Comment to #19 - Shang's Special Variant

Beautiful fly Mike. Beautifully tied.

I've submitted 2 pic

I've submitted 2 pictures, pretty good ones I'd say compared to many and am wondering why no votes or average scores when others appear to have better results. Is this a club where "I'll vote for yours if you vote for mine?

Just curious.

I rarely like to eat

I rarely like to eat trout, but those looked really good. Nice concept.

Comment to #17 - Spofford Smelt

Very nice fly, Glenn! A modern classic. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the set.

Comment to #18 - The Ref

Great tie Dwayne and a new pattern to me thanks

Comment to #18 - The Ref

It does look pretty great. Duane Vigue has a ton of patterns that used to be posted on his site, but most are gone now. They are all a little tough to tie as well because of the materials and colors usually called for. Some wonderful looking smelts and attractors in there.

Comment to #18 - The Ref

Great looking tie! Love the red throat. It pops the fly. Thanks for sharing.

Thank You for a very

Thank You for a very informative site the content of the Fly Tying Videos is excellent, full of techniques and thread control coupled with some very good material control.

Rod xixflyfishing.

Excellent fotos !!!

Excellent fotos !!!

Have you tried the d

Have you tried the double grinner? I'ts very bulky if you don't strip off the fly line coating, and then all most impossible to pull down at the coated and uncoated juncture. If I was going to use the loop system I'd just go with the new molded loop flylines. My concern with a loop to loop system is the leader material cutting through the loop.

I have an old wine cabinet

I have an old wine cabinet that I put all my hackle and such in. Close the door and it doesn't look like I'm ready for a yard sale. But then you do have to get lucky and be there when someone put one out for the trash.